How much exercise do you do, truthfully?
Exercise takes effort we know that, but lying about exercise is easy apparently, well for the half of people that do it anyway.
New research has revealed that half of people admit to lying about the level of exercise that they do.
The study, conducted by Sweatband.com, also found that women were much more likely to lie than men.
The main way that people are 'lying' about their workout is by adding time to their workout, lying about the weight they lift, or how far they've run or cycled.
Some respondents have even gone as far to saying that they have worked out when they haven't.
The research found that 44% take to social media to lie about their exercise regime, most commonly being Facebook followed by Twitter for 'boastful tweets'.
Maz Darvish, CEO of Sweatband.com made the following comment: “There’s often the temptation to let the world know when you’ve undertaken a solid gym session or just come back from a punishing run. When you’re feeling a sense of pride at working hard, it’s understandable to want to share that mood. But is it in the nature of people to be competitive on social media? It would appear so.
“It might be the case that on your run you’ve stumbled along for a laboured two miles, but feel this doesn’t sound good enough, so fiddle the figures for your friends to suggest that you’ve done five miles. Or maybe you’ve not left the sofa at all and are making it up entirely. The fact is though, in either case, you’re only cheating yourself.”
It also transpired that it wasn’t only exercise that respondents lied about, as 52% confessed to falsifying their adherence to a diet. 47% of these said that they ‘lied to friends and colleagues’ about what they’d been eating, intimating that they’d been much stricter with food intake than the reality. 24% of these confessed that they did so to ‘make themselves feel better’ about over eating.
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