One way to lose weight or maintain an ideal weight after marriage is to exercise with your partner. What exercise ideas are suitable to do together? Let's discuss it below.

Benefits of Exercising Together as a Couple

Many people experience weight gain after getting married. This weight gain can lead to obesity (having too much body fat, which can harm your health) if not properly controlled.

Obesity ultimately affects health quality and increases the risk of diseases such as:

• Stroke (a sudden loss of brain function due to problems with blood flow in the brain) and heart disease (conditions that affect the heart, often caused by blocked blood vessels).
• Diabetes (a condition where the body cannot properly control blood sugar levels).
• Muscle, bone, and joint disorders (problems with muscles, bones, and joints that can cause pain or difficulty moving).
• Various types of cancer (conditions where abnormal cells grow uncontrollably in different parts of the body), including breast cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer, colorectal cancer, uterine cancer, and more.

To avoid the above risks, you can exercise with your partner. Exercising together provides various benefits for both of you, including:

To be more disciplined

Exercising with a partner helps you be more disciplined in following your workout schedule. You can also become more motivated when seeing each other’s progress. Additionally, if one of you is exercising excessively, you can remind each other to rest.

To feel happier

The body releases endorphins (chemicals released by your body during exercise that make you feel happy and reduce pain) when exercising. Exercising with your partner provides encouragement and motivation and can enhance your happiness together.

To strengthen positive bonds

The positive bond formed with your partner while exercising together is also beneficial for those planning for pregnancy or wanting to improve their relationship. Physical touch and shared activities can enhance your connection with one another.

To strengthen commitment together

Exercising with a partner can strengthen commitment. According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, people are more likely to make positive behavioral changes if their partner does the same.

Exercise Ideas to Do Together as a Couple

Exercising together can be done at home or outdoors. The key is to be disciplined about your workout schedule and support each other.

Weight Training

Weightlifting is a form of resistance training (exercise that uses weights or other resistance to help build muscle strength) that can be done at home or in a gym. A weight training program can be performed together with different types of exercises. Remember to consider the different training needs that you and your partner may have.

Cycling Together

Cycling is an aerobic exercise (exercise that gets your heart pumping and helps improve overall fitness, like cycling or running) that can be done by everyone, from children to the elderly. While cycling, all body muscles work effectively. Cycling helps increase muscle strength, reduce stress, strengthen bones, lower body fat levels, alleviate anxiety and depression, and improve posture and body coordination.

Yoga together

Yoga is traditionally an individual exercise. However, in its development, yoga can also be practiced with friends or partners.

Partner yoga is similar to regular yoga, but two people will help and guide each other in poses through physical touch. Body poses in partner yoga often involve back-to-back, side-by-side, or front-to-front positions, frequently involving holding onto each other for support.

Practicing yoga with your partner provides a different and more beneficial experience in strengthening your relationship.

To engage in exercises together, partners need to adjust to each other’s pace. Support should always be provided even if one partner does not move as quickly as the other. Consider enlisting the help of a personal trainer if both of you are unsure about exercising together.

If you need medical advice or consultation, you can either visit a doctor or make use of the consultation features that are available in the Ai Care application by downloading the Ai Care application from the App Store or Play Store.

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