By Amy Glover
Me in a spin class and lifting weights (two activities I thought I’d be too ashamed to do)I鈥檓 pretty obsessive about fitness聽鈥 I write so much about its longevity-boosting, anti-ageing benefits, after all, that I can鈥檛 help but buy into the hype.聽
I love running, or at least I鈥檓 learning to fall back in love with it.
I鈥檝e started lifting weights and trying fitness trends like 鈥淛apanese walking鈥 and 鈥淛effing鈥, partly because they improve vital metrics like my VO2 max, but mostly because of the mood-boosting benefits.聽
But I was not always this barbell-lifting, creatine-guzzling person聽鈥 and a new study from scientists at the聽University College London may reveal why.聽
I鈥檓 an anxious introvert, and I didn鈥檛 get into fitness until about 23. So it makes sense that the paper found that, in very simplistic terms, exercise is more appealing to extroverts.
In particular, outgoing people seemed to love high-intensity workouts like weightlifting and spin (both of which I only finally managed to try this year).
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