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| Experts have found a link between the amount we exercise and the amount we drink |
AFTER a long hard slog in the gym are you ever tempted to crack open a bottle of red when you get home? It might be your brain crying out for a reward, say two new studies.
Researchers, from Pennsylvania State University, were keen to explore the relationship between exercise and alcohol.
150 volunteers (men and women between the ages of 18 and 75) were asked to fill out a questionnaire and document their daily drinking and exercise habits using a provided smartphone app for three weeks.
Participants carried on monitoring their drinking and workouts at three additional periods throughout the year.
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| The more you exercise the more you drink alcohol, according to the study |
When the team analysed the data, they noticed a direct link between when people exercised and when they had an alcoholic drink.
Regardless of the time of year, exercise directly influenced the amount people drank and when they had alcohol.
When participants engaged in more physical activity than usual, their alcoholic consumption went up.
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| Researchers found people wanted to extend the feel-good feeling of exercise |
This link between exercise and drinking didn’t indicate heavy drinking, though. Researchers found that people stuck to a primarily moderate intake, rarely engaging in a heavy drinking session.
Researchers then conducted a second study to find out exactly why exercise causes us to drink and revealed that it’s because people want to extend that post-gym feel-good feeling.
It also seems like exercise goes hand-in-hand with getting boozy, as another reason researchers gave for why people are prone to drinking alcohol after exercise was related to the social aspect of sport and fitness.
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| The study found that sports teams socialised outside of training |
They discovered that people train together are more likely to head to the pub with each other or their teams, after they've completed the workouts.
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