Why Is Exercising with Your Significant Other Beneficial for You

Get better together.

There’s nothing like an intense, shared experience to bring people together and bond them. You can accomplish this by jumping out of an airplane together, spending date night watching a horror film or exercising with a partner.

In fact, you can get to create a healthier, happier body while creating a healthier and happier relationship by working out together. People that train with a partner get better results! It’s true…they work out harder, longer, and more regularly.

There are reasons why couples who sweat together, stay together. Here’s how that works:

1. Accountability

Showing up is half the battle! Committing to exercising with a partner will force you to overcome the myriad excuses that arise during the day.

You need to bust those excuses such as –

1. I’m tired
2. I’ll do it tomorrow
3. Skipping once won’t hurt, and so on

We all want to be trusted by our partner, and we would like to be considered highly reliable. By scheduling your workouts as a couple, you will have many opportunities to develop trust, reliability, and dependability.

2. Respect

Believe it or not, you have a fitness super-power. There is some exercise, which you are fantastically amazing at…you just are! Maybe you already know what it is, or maybe you just haven’t discovered it yet.

Trust me—everyone has at least one fitness super-power. No matter how much fitter one of you is than the other, there is always that one thing that the other person will be better at.

Discovering, acknowledging, and celebrating those fitness abilities when exercising with a partner will create a newfound area of respect in your relationship.

3. Intensity

You’ll work harder with a partner. It’s just the way your brain is wired. You have mirror neurons in your brain that cause you to match the movements of other people.

A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when you act and when you observe the same action performed by another. That means you will match the form and pacing of your partner, and together you will achieve greater intensity than you would likely to achieve on your own. Even as one of you gets tired, you will continue to maintain a better pace due to the fitness and pacing of the fitter partner.

4. Regularity

The best workouts are the ones that you do and perform on a regular basis!

When exercising with a partner, you’ll agree to a schedule, and then you’ll hold one another accountable to adhering to the schedule of your shared training sessions. As you progress, one or both of you will notice a change in fitness levels. That person will become even more enthusiastic about the sessions and ensure that you both stick with it.

Nothing feeds success like success.

5. Motivation

Is it better to workout alone or with a partner?

Exercising with a partner has its own share of benefits. In fact, there is nothing more motivating than your partner recognizing and genuinely celebrating your efforts and achievements.

Training together is a great opportunity to show your partner your athletic side and impress them with at least one thing that you are great at. Not just that, but they are sure to notice and comment when you get better at something that you may have, initially struggled with.

Be sure to notice and celebrate incremental improvements as you notice them in your partner. Finally, if you are evenly matched at an activity, you may find yourself engaging in some good-natured and healthy competition.

Enjoy the challenge…after all, steel sharpens steel.

6. Attachment

Exercising with a partner will help you create a stronger sense of attachment to one another. Exercise stimulates the release of the attachment hormone, Oxytocin.

Train together frequently, increase your production of attachment hormones, and your bond will be strengthened.

Is it good for couples to workout together?

You already knew that working out was good for you. Now you know that exercising with a partner is good for your relationship, too!

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