Doing better in group fitness

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine compared the results of those people who engage in it alone, and those who go to fitness classes   in the company of one or more friends. It was found that the company is much more effective to lose weight.

Two years Shirikov Komanyuka Professor and his colleagues studied 344 men and women who have decided to do fitness   and go to the gym in order to drive away the extra weight. The researchers set out to help people get rid of 5-10% by weight and   keep weight for a long time. For this test, not only giving advice on exercise, but also   healthy diet . However, not all.

63 participants engaged in solitude, and took with them 281 friends and family members. People were divided into three groups: those It is engaged in fitness   itself, those who have a partner and who receives tips from time to time, and those who have many partners and experts who advise on the full. Progress is measured at intervals of six months, a year and a half and two years.

These studies are published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. Most of the weight lost representatives of the third group. It is curious that in the second group are those who have lost a partner, at least 5% of the weight, lost weight more than those who have lost a partner less than 5%. In other words, the more active partner, losing weight, the more lost overweight and the participant.

"We believe that social support of friends and relatives can be an effective strategy on the road to recovery and the fight against   overweight - Says Professor Komanyuka. - Losing extra kilos a person directly depend on how much his partner losing weight exercise. Further research may help us to develop an effective method of combating overweight   with the help of friends and relatives who will also do fitness ".

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