Can matching your personality traits with a workout make exercising more enjoyable?
Daily workouts seem to be a tedious task for many who are either lethargic or really busy with their lives. However, medical experts have repeatedly stressed the need for people to be physically active throughout the day to ward off lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, and more.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that adults should complete a minimum of 150 minutes of physical activity per week. But how many can do the bare minimum?
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The thing with daily workouts is that there are people who find it hard to enjoy the activities in a gym class, and probably they would prefer to go for a run.
A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology has delved into this and says that matching a workout to the individual's personality type can help them enjoy the activity.
People have different personality traits, and the study provides insights into how personality can determine engagement with physical activity and the degree to which one enjoys different forms of exercise. This understanding can help in aiding the development of tailored exercise programs, as per the researchers.
Another way to understand this would be how more extroverted people, for example, would prefer high-intensity training sessions with others, such as team sports, while people who scored highly on 'neuroticism', which is a metric that measures someone’s emotional instability, preferred private workouts without people watching them.
This study also observed the direct relationship between personality, fitness, and exercise engagement in a healthy population. The findings also have the potential utility of monitoring personality traits in future exercise studies and can help in designing the training programs tailored to participants’ needs.
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