Why adults should embrace their inner child and be more playfully when exercising

Laughter is the best medicine. So it is said whenever someone cannot stop roaring with laughter.

Laughter decreases stress hormones very effectively and lets your mind wonder, so it has a truly marvellous relaxing effect. Laughing does not only make you personally feel better, but it also improves social cohesion and helps people relate to each other.

Children tend to laugh about everything and their playfulness is completely spontaneous. Most adults are not as playful, while some may even be unable to experience it altogether. Nevertheless, when a large group of adults is introduced to playsets, playgrounds or a trampoline park, the uninhibited laughter of a small child can be heard once again.
Some adults may feel nervous about being exposed to childish settings. They might feel ashamed of playing and letting themselves go, although we all benefit from it.

Children do not stop to wonder what others might think about them, and they are able to physically throw themselves into any kind of play activity. Adults want to hold on to their adulthood by force and they need to overcome their initial emotions in order to relax and let themselves go more easily. Some may be able to do this very easily if their job or family life includes such situations, but others can feel very uncomfortable if they are suddenly expected to do something that they haven’t done in a long while, such as play publicly in front of others.

Unconsciously exercising

The most important effect of exercising is improving and promoting health, but the objective of all exercise activities should be to enjoy what you are doing in order to maintain the habit and make you addicted to the feelings exercising evokes in you.

If all these elements are present, exercising can become a natural and integral part of your daily life. If you take a playful approach to exercising, it can become something you do not even consider to be a form of exercising. By doing so, you will be able to abandon the performance-oriented philosophy that surrounds us in everyday life and start enjoying what you are doing simply for the reason that it is fun.

Exercising shouldn’t just be about burning calories