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Originally posted by Schleprock
I'm posing this question to see how often a person works out is obsessive.
It goes in cycles. My hubby will eat compulsively for 5 months out of the year, gain 30 lbs, and then he will go on work out binges for 6 months or so. He started almost a month ago. He is riding the recumbant bike on the hardest setting, for 30 min each night, and he is up to 13 miles in 30 min. Then he is on the stair stepper for 30 min. Then he does situps for an hour and a half each night. He's just added weight lifting to the mix.
He spent 2 hours at the gym tonight, came home and is doing the 30 minute 13 mile bike ride and will do the 30 min. stair stepper.
That's a total of 3 hours per night that he exercises. Seven days aweek.
Does that seem a little excessive?
[edit on 9-3-2009 by Schleprock]
Originally posted by Schleprock
I'm posing this question to see how often a person works out is obsessive.
It goes in cycles. My hubby will eat compulsively for 5 months out of the year, gain 30 lbs, and then he will go on work out binges for 6 months or so. He started almost a month ago. He is riding the recumbant bike on the hardest setting, for 30 min each night, and he is up to 13 miles in 30 min. Then he is on the stair stepper for 30 min. Then he does situps for an hour and a half each night. He's just added weight lifting to the mix.
He spent 2 hours at the gym tonight, came home and is doing the 30 minute 13 mile bike ride and will do the 30 min. stair stepper.
That's a total of 3 hours per night that he exercises. Seven days aweek.
Does that seem a little excessive?
[edit on 9-3-2009 by Schleprock]
Originally posted by Amniodarone
I would say that exercise is healty for him. It must be difficult for him to have been so active when he was younger. Now that he is older and has an injury, I imagine that he is trying to stay in as good a shape as possible. I don't believe that he is exercising too much. Medically speaking... One has exercised too much when he/she shows signs of Rhabdomyolysis.
Rhabdomyolysis
This condition can occur when an individual has exercised to excess (there are also many disease conditions that can cause this affliction, but we are focusing on too much exercise right now). Hope that this helps a bit.
Originally posted by Schleprock
I guess I was wondering if a person could have an obsession of working out. My husband does have obsessive compulsive tendencies. He has been working out most of our 25 yrs of marriage.