5 Amazing Benefits Of Working Out With Your Partner

If you’re struggling with your motivation, or you simply want to squeeze more out of every workout you do, then one of the smartest moves you can make is to get a workout buddy. In fact, having the right workout buddy can often be the difference between failure and success, mediocre results and incredible results. Even if you find you work better on your own, the right workout partner can force you to tap into those extra reserves of strength and energy so that you push through a few extra reps. The right workout buddy helps you give it your all, and if you want great results then you’ve got to give it everything you’ve got: you get out, what you put in.

# Boosted Workout

A few of us appreciate a complete absence of people (as in, zero gymgoers) when hitting the gym. Most of us, though, like at least a couple of people around. Well, humans don’t like doing things by themselves much the whole “social creature” thing. Now scientists are saying that your partner may provide an energy boost while working out. This is especially true if we’re already confident in our physical fitness, and have established an exercise routine.

# Healthier relationship

Studies show that couples who engage in some challenging physical activity report feeling more satisfied with their partners. Researchers attribute this effect to the physiological components of working out. This makes sense, as exercise is known for producing feel-good hormones, at least in the short term. It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to think that prolonged exercise by our partner’s side would translate into some long-term relationship benefits.

# Lovey-dovey feelings

The biological and chemical effects of exercise are potent. Few activities produce a natural cocktail of bodily elixirs and vigorous exercise is one of them. In fact, physiologists state that the chemicals produced by the body while working out are the same as those it makes while falling in love.

# Strengthens our emotional bond

Researchers found that a certain synchrony exists between some partners when they work out together. They observed couples matching each other’s walking or running pace, lifting weights in rhythm, and even passing a medicine ball in similar time intervals.

# Healthy dissolution of stress

Anyone who goes to the gym will tell you about the extraordinary stress-relieving benefits of exercise. The reason our body reacts so positively and fully to exercise is simple: the human body is not meant to be a stationary entity. Swiftness of movement and physical mobility are evolutionary traits passed down by our distant ancestors through the millennia. Too many couples handle stress in unhealthy ways – through avoidance, grumbling, or conflict. We act out like this because we need an outlet – and it’s that simple.