More Workouts Produce Worse Health Outcomes?
Authors of a brand-new study just published in the journal Behavioral Sciences sought to understand the relationship between how much strength train we do and health outcomes.
The authors hypothesized, logically, that people who do more strength training (strength training more often and longer workouts) would:
Improve body image perceptions.
Improve nutrition habits.
Improve health-related outcomes.
The authors were wrong. In fact, it was the opposite.
The authors concluded, “The study reveals a nuanced relationship between strength training, body image, psychological well-being, and nutritional habits. Notably, increased training frequency was associated with less favorable health outcomes, including poorer nutritional choices and heightened psychological traits like neuroticism, challenging traditional views on physical training benefits.”
We should strength train. However, doing more strength training is not linked to better results (and in this study, more was linked to worse results).
