How Exercise Can Improve Your Relationship

What to spice up your sex life? Try exercise. Exercise does more than just strengthen your body, it can also strengthen your connections with others, including that special somone just in time for Valentine's Day. In this episode, we discuss how exercise can make you more attractive to others, how it improves connections (enhances new and existing ones) and what's going on in your body to make that happen.

Select references cited in this podcast:

Effects of Exercise Interventions on Body Image: A Meta-analysis: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105309338977

Snychrony and Physiological Arousal Increase Cohersion and Cooperation in Large Naturalistic Groups: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-18023-4

Marital Benefits of Daily Individual and Conjoint Exercise Among Older Couples: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fare.12307