American researchers have shown that people are much more likely and longer the exercise, if there’s someone else involved in sports. According to scientists, the presence of competitive spirit encourages people to actively engage in sports, because he expects more from yourself.
As told by Damon Centola from the American University of Pennsylvania, the experiment involved about 800 students, who were offered free access to the gym for 11 days in one of the state programs. The project was not aimed at the promotion of health, and the study motivation of students during a visit to the sports and fitness halls. With this purpose, experts have created a number of websites that offered students to participate in the same program, but lured them in many different ways.
The authors of the study advised the owners of gyms and teachers in universities to maximally stimulate the rivalry between the visitors is to split them into teams and forced to compete for a symbolic prize. In addition, the competitive spirit drives people to give up alcohol, tobacco, junk food and other negative things that hinder you to achieve maximum results in the fight against competitors.
