excessive exercise
Working out obsessively
Excessive exercise is physical activity pushed beyond healthy limits, causing harm rather than benefit.
The threshold varies by individual, but warning signs include injury, exhaustion, and neglecting other responsibilities.
The term often appears in discussions of eating disorders, where compulsive exercise serves as a form of purging: Her therapist identified excessive exercise as part of the disorder.
- overtrainingRecovery-exceeding exercise load
- burnoutChronic occupational depletion
- burning outDepleting through overuse
- obsessionPersistent, intrusive preoccupation
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
exhaustion · running on empty · injury · overuse injury · addiction · gym · gym rat · sweat · soreness · fatigue · pushing · limits · hitting the wall · strain · relentless · grueling · marathon · repetition
- exercise injuriesmuscle strain, pulled muscle, sprain, sprains, muscle tear
- eating disordersanorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, binge eating, bulimia nervosa
- Infertilityinfertility, male infertility, low sperm count, PCOS, endometriosis
- self-harmself-harm, self-injury, self-mutilation, cutting, burning
excessive exercisesedentary lifestyle
Habitual physical inactivity
inactivity · physical inactivity · sedentariness · lack of exercise · underexercise
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