Running as a couple

Sharing hobbies with your partner makes the better half a perfect fruit. The alternatives of tastes are wide, but the running It can be a very useful and healthy therapy.

If you are able to plan running with the person you share your day with, you Relationship will be seen strengthened.  The study carried out by Rexona which has focused on analyzing the influence that going out for a run with your partner has on the relationship. The sports psychologist Oliver Martinez, who has led the investigation, and according to the results obtained, affirms that the running can be a good tool to strengthen interpersonal relationships between couples: "Sharing objectives, challenges and motivations in training will help decisively to promote communication and empathy between the two members of the couple, thus strengthening the relationship".

• Finding in our partner a partner of running encourages our degree of commitment with the activity is greater. The and motivation it is favored by having someone else with whom to share ideas to improve performance and by achieving the objectives set (even if they are different for each one). Furthermore, another source oflimeThe information that increases motivation is the knowledge that another has expectations placed on the joint task.

• Being able to talk about an activity that you both enjoy will help to increase communication between the two of you, reinforcing the sentimental bond.

• "You are always training", "Are you also going to run today Sunday?"  Sharing this hobby will put an end to this type of reproach as both are committed with the same task. In this way running will be part of a plus that will enrich the relationship.

• Without a doubt, one of the most interesting benefits, and that will be an important incentive to put on your shoes and go out for a run (either with your partner or alone) is that you run improvement la sexual activity.  A study carried out by Harvard University showed that men who were active were 30% less likely to have bad sexual relations, in addition to the fact that couples physically active they had sex much more.

• Finally, one of the great advantages of training with your partner is to discover unknown places What if it weren't for the fact of wanting to go out to train on new routes, especially on long-run Sundays, in order to get out of the routine of the usual route. And what about knowing other cities and countries with the perfect excuse that a race is being held in which you want to participate?

                However... as there is always a but and even if you are a couple, each one individually can and should have different tastes and / or needs, so before going out for a run you must agree on how you are going to do it.

                Some points that you should consider and put especially atención are:

• In the park or in the city? Listening to music or immersing yourself in the ambient sound? at morning or evening? Weekdays or just weekends? You have to reach a minimal agreement Always respecting the personal preferences of each one so it is not necessary that you run glued throughout the training, it is enough that you leave the same place with a previous warm-up and you will agree on a meeting point to stretch together.

• El competitive spirit It is better to leave it at home when you run with your lover since the objective of you going out together is that you enjoy the mutual company. In case one of the two is especially competitive, then putting aside the idea of ​​training together may be the best option of all to avoid future frustrations that can generate discussions between both. 

• Different training level: If one of the two is already an experienced runner and the other is still starting in this adventure, the ideal is and as I have mentioned above, to share the warm-up and the stretching, agreeing on a final meeting point. Training with your partner should not interrupt each other's individual progression.

Happiness is neither given nor given, it is only shared and one of the ways to share happiness is to share training with your partner.

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