Can You Be Addicted To The Gym?

Gym addiction is very much like other addictions and needs to be treated. It is very possible for individuals to get addicted to the gym. Once can assess if they or someone else is addicted to the gym depending on their attitude towards their regular gymming regime. One might spend hours at the gym and still not classify as an addict.

The main issues to be looked at in this context are, the way a person reacts if he/she misses a session or a workout, the time they dedicate to it with respect to their schedule, their approach to it in times of injury and the most significant of all, the importance they place on it. There are some people who feel extremely guilty and anxious when they skip a workout. Others feel irritable and think that their day is incomplete if they can't make it to the gym. In some of the worst cases, people can even let go important social commitments so that they can complete their daily gym session.

Exercise addicts often tend to ignore their physical or muscular injuries as well. If left untreated one's addiction to exercise can have damaging effects on one's entire body.

You know what, I have an addiction to the gym... or physical activity. I knew even before I read this! I fall into the feeling guilty/anxious and incomplete, but in some minor situations, I would like to or even manage to skip certain things so I can run/walk or whatever. It's bad!

Getting addicted to gyms is good for us only. Going to Gyms makes us fit and will not be having any health complications.

My boyfriend is addicted to gym , he has problem with his shoulder but ignores it .. He will skip important occasions and will go to the gym .. He will go for 5 hours a day .. And maybe skip a day if he skips a day he will think he is getting skinny! He has a problem ! HELP!