Why going to the gym could be BAD for your waistline: People 'drink more alcohol after exercising', study claims

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Why going to the gym could be BAD for your waistline: People 'drink more alcohol after exercising', study claims
Why going to the gym could be BAD for your waistline: People 'drink more alcohol after exercising', study claims


  • People exercise more on Thursdays to Sundays, researchers claim
  • They tend to drink more alcohol on days they've exercised, study found
  • Could be because people reward themselves with a drink after exercising
  • Or being active means people come across more drinking opportunities
  • Another explanation is that exercising uses willpower, meaning they can't resist a drink at the end of the day
You might think that a hard workout sets you up for a healthier day.
But people drink more alcohol on days they've exercised, according to a new study.
U.S. researchers claim that on days when people exercise more - typically Thursdays to Sundays - they knock back more drinks, too.
Previous research has found that more active people tend to drink more, but the new study found a stronger linked between the days people exercised and the number of drinks they sank.
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People exercise more on Thursdays to Sundays and tend to drink more on these days too, the U.S. study found

This was the case even when they allowed for the fact that people have more alcohol-related events on the weekend, the researchers said.
They believe it could be because people reward themselves for going to the gym, or perhaps being physically active means they come across more social situations where alcohol is consumed - such as after football or rugby matches.
Another explanation is that on 'exercise' days, people 'use up' all their willpower forcing themselves to work out, and therefore can't resist the temptation for a drink at the end of the day.
The study included 150 participants, aged 18 to 89. Using smartphones, they recorded the amount of exercise they took and how much alcohol they drank at every day for 21 days.

This was done at three different times throughout one year.

The study was the first to ask participants to report their exercise and alcohol intake using a smartphone.


This was considered more accurate than previous studies which asked participants to remember their exercise habits and alcohol consumption over the past 30 days.

David Conroy, lead study author and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said: 'Monday through Wednesday people batten down the hatches and they cut back on alcohol consumption,'

'But once that "social weekend" kicks off on Thursdays, physical activity increases and so does alcohol consumption.'

He added: 'We zoomed in the microscope and got a very up-close and personal look at these behaviours on a day-to-day basis.

'[We saw that] it's not people who exercise more drink more.

'It's that on days when people are more active, they tend to drink more than on days when they are less active.

'This finding was uniform across study participants of all levels of physical activity and ages.'

He offered a few explanations for the findings.

'Perhaps people reward themselves for working out by having more to drink.

'Or maybe being physically active leads them to encountering more social situations where alcohol is consumed - we don't know.'

He told Time magazine: 'It could be that people who are more physically active on a given day have to use all their willpower and cognitive resources to get themselves to be active, and they don't have enough willpower left to resist the temptation of a drink at the end of the day.'

Professor Conroy now hopes to discover what drives people to drink more on days they exercise more through more studies.

Once this link has been established, scientists can design interventions that would encourage exercise but discourage drinking.

The study was published online in the journal Health Psychology.
Experts said people might reward themselves for working out, they might encounter more social occasions featuring alcohol through being active or it could be that they have used up all their willpower motivating themselves be active and so can't resist a drink at the end of the day

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Experts said people might reward themselves for working out, they might encounter more social occasions featuring alcohol through being active or it could be that they have used up all their willpower motivating themselves be active and so can't resist a drink at the end of the day





 
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