Risks And Consequences That May Be Present When Exercise Is Done In Excessive Amounts

Luis Jesús García de la Torre. 4th Semester - Bicultural

Bigorexia is considered to be a new mental disorder which causes people, typically men, to believe their bodies are too thin. These people then do different things to increase muscular mass, mainly they over exercise to get stronger and look better. This disorder is also known as muscle dysmorphia (a disorder where people are obsessed with being muscular).
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In most of the cases when somebody becomes bigorexic they change their habits and begin to do new and different things that generally tend to be healthy, but the real problem is that these things are done in excess and then they become unhealthy. Then after a period of time bigorexic people suffer many different health problems and injuries due to over exercise, like pains, broken bones, and muscular problems, (in this case the problem is increased because people don’t allow their bodies to rest correctly). “In an article [written] by Dr.Brenda Woods and Dr. Kevin Wandler in 2006 for the organization ‘Finding Balance’ it was found that training in excess and through pain may cause broken bones, pains, muscle joints, etc.”. In some cases when eating habits are changed people provoke their body to change in a radical way, which may lead to problems. There is a risk that organs may be damaged.
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This psychological problem may affect women too, and in their particular case they may become infertile. This may occur because women do excessive exercise and they lift more weight than what they can safely handle. All this weight and overwork is received by the uterus which gets weaker and loses its capacity to take care of a fetus.
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Exercise is an excellent way to be a healthy person. When it is followed by a good diet that contains all kinds of foods, it may be the best way to be in good form, to get a good body, and the most important, to be healthy. The problem is that a lot people want even more than to be healthy so they overwork with their bodies and exceed their diets to a point that it may even be mortal. A good way to make people be conscious of these problems is to teach them that the importance of this is to be healthy, not to be thin nor to have a nice body.

Information Sources:
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