Getting a divorce ranks among some of the top stressors in life, right alongside the death of a loved one, moving, job loss and experiencing a major illness or injury. With this in mind, it makes sense that your level of physical fitness might change. For some, it means a struggle with depression that can cause you to exercise less. For others, divorce inspires you to lose weight in order to become more attractive to the opposite sex. These situations are different for everyone, but researchers did find some commonalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Studying steps after a divorce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Research from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) found that the link between changes in relationships and physical activity tend to be very different depending on gender and socioeconomic status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, they found that men who had recently divorced walked fewer non-exercise steps than men who hadn\u2019t recently divorced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Likewise, women who had remarried during the four-year follow-up walked fewer steps than women who had a stable relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both men and women in the highest social class had a significant increase in aerobic steps, which are defined as steps taking during non-stop activities (at least 10 minutes) at a pace of 60 steps per minute or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advice for post-divorce exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers were quick to point out that it\u2019s vital for everyone\u2014regardless of their social class\u2014to make time for exercise on a daily basis to decrease stress and chronic conditions, especially heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They explain that adding aerobic steps doesn\u2019t necessarily mean doing them all at once, such as a long run or Zumba class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cActual exercising is not needed in order to add steps to daily life,\u201d says Kasper Salin, a postdoctoral researcher, who contributed to the study. \u201cInstead, attention should be paid to everyday choices. You could walk instead of driving or take stairs instead of an elevator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Divorce is stressful, but it also may change how much you exercise. Research has found that men and women change their number of steps after a breakup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[927,761,727],"class_list":["post-13176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-divorce","tag-marriage","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}