Exercise addiction is an obsessive behavior of an individual participating in exercising constantly 摘要运动成瘾是带有强迫性质的、个体持续参与运动的行为。
Some sports professionals in china have also been aware of such an area as exercise addiction , but the researches made in china are just scattered ones at a small scale , at the stage of preparation and initiation before study , not the specialized researches on exercise addiction 国内的体育工作者也注意到了运动成瘾这个领域,但国内的研究只是零碎的、小范围的,处于研究前的准备、启动阶段,没有对运动成瘾进行专门性研究。
An exercise addiction can have harmful consequences although it is not listed as a disorder in the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). This type of addiction can be classified under a behavioral addiction in which a person’s behavior becomes obsessive, compulsive, and/or causes dysfunction in a person's life.