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Open Access 25.03.2020 | Original Article

100 Cases of Exercise Addiction: More Evidence for a Widely Researched but Rarely Identified Dysfunction

verfasst von: Ignatius Darma Juwono, Attila Szabo

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Abstract

Exercise addiction is an extensively studied topic in the sport science and psychology literature as reflected by the more than 1000 papers published in the field. However, only about 12 cases were published in the area, which may suggest that there is difficulty in reaching and studying affected individuals. Relying on the Components Model of Addiction, we performed an extensive search on non-scholar websites (i.e. popular media websites) and identified 100 cases that met the eligibility criteria. These cases reflect the several physical, psychological and social consequences that may accompany the dysfunction, as well as numerous exercise activities to which individuals may become addicted. The findings also raise the question whether women are more affected than men, or perhaps women are more open than men to disclose their problem, as based on the four to one ratio of the identified cases. The current work supports the large volume of research in the field of exercise addiction, because either the prevalence of the dysfunction is greater than expected, or people are more open to disclose their problem on Internet sites.
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Exercise is a form of planned physical activity that requires energy expenditure to sustain the work of the muscles (Caspersen et al. 1985). Exercising to a level at which an individual loses control over the exercise behaviour turns into a compulsory activity, resulting in a dysfunction referred to as exercise addiction (Griffiths 1997; Szabo 2010) or exercise dependence (Hausenblas and Downs 2002). Exercise addiction is listed among behavioural addictions (Egorov and Szabo 2013) like gambling disorder, but due to inconclusive and limited scientific evidence for being a unique mental dysfunction, the condition is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association 2013). Apart from the characteristic symptoms of addictions (in general), such as salience, mood modification, withdrawal symptoms, tolerance and relapse, on which the Components Model of Addiction (Griffiths 2005) is based, to be classified as an addiction one’s exercise behaviour must trigger, physical, psychological, or social harm (Szabo 2010). Indeed, without negative consequence(s), even an excessive amount of exercise may not be considered dysfunctional (Szabo and Kovacsik 2019). Further, actual cases of exercise addiction (with identifiable negative consequences) are seldom reported in the literature and, therefore, the objective of this work was to explore whether such cases could be identified on popular media websites.
Although one study reported that out of 300 fitness centre participants 125 (42%) could be addicted to exercise (Lejoyeux et al. 2008), the estimated risk for exercise addiction is ‘relatively low’, ranging from 0.3 to 0.5%, as based on a Hungarian representative population-wide study (Monók et al. 2012). However, even this figure is enormously high. If one considers the population of the United Kingdom, which is almost 68 million (Worldmeters.com 2019), and that 13% of this nation’s population claims to exercise regularly (five or more times per week), while 34% claims to exercise with some regularity (one to four times per week) based on recent statistical data (European Commission 2018), then only among those who exercise five or more times per week we might find over 25 thousand people at risk or affected by exercise addiction (0.3% of the 13% of the 68 million)! However, if one searches the over 1000 articles published on exercise addiction (Szabo and Kovacsik 2019), will hardly find a few (i.e. 12) case studies published in scholastic papers. Consequently, one may conclude that there is an exaggerated research effort in the area, which based on the number of identified cases is not justified, and that the few cases reported in the literature are insufficient to support a clause for exercise addiction to be included in a future edition of the DSM.
Indeed, we could only identify a few published cases of exercise addiction. The first was reported by Veale (1995) on a 27-year woman who was disinterested in life apart from running. A later case covered the morbid exercise pattern of a 25-year-old female martial artist (Griffiths 1997). The case of a 50-year-old male cyclist was published 7 years later (Kotbagi et al. 2014). One year later, in a self-help book about exercise addiction, Schreiber and Hausenblas (2015) present nine cases of exercise addiction, which starts with the case of the first author. This latter was also published in an academic journal (Hausenblas et al. 2017). These cases add up to 12, suggesting that currently there is approximately one identified case of exercise addiction for every100 article published in the area (Szabo and Kovacsik 2019).
Given that the media also shows interest in exercise addiction, we hypothesized that we will be able to identify more cases of exercise addiction in the public media than in the scholastic literature. The rationale for this presumption was that academicians and researchers could hardly reach out for exercises addicts and that health professionals getting in contact with them might be preoccupied with helping the patients rather than doing research. The objective of the work was to reveal that the abundant scholastic research in the area may not be in vain, because there might be significantly more cases of exercise addiction than the dozen published in academic writings.

Method

We searched the Internet by using the Google search engine and employing relevant and appropriate search terms (Table 1), such as exercise addiction and exercise addict. The three key inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) articles must be in English language, (2) at least one of the six symptoms of the Components Model of Addiction (Griffiths 2005) must be identified through the reading of the article, and (3) the affected person must have had suffered at least one physical, psychological or social damage (negative consequence). We, the two authors, agreed 100% on the presence of the set criteria in the sequentially coded articles that can be verified in Table 2. While we did not impose a period limit, we imposed an upper limit to the search number, which was set to 100. This limit is a delimitation of the study set because it was deemed enough to expose a much wider existence of exercise addiction than currently could be estimated from the scholastic literature. In fact, this number is nearly nine (9) times more than the cases available in academic writings. The search strategy is summarized in Table 1. The link to each case is provided in the Appendix and it is also available, with a screenshot (a saved picture) of the page reporting the included article, at the Mendeley data repository (DOI: 10.17632/sdcj3vgchz.1).
Table 1
Search strategy indicating the inclusion and exclusion criteria of articles located on the Internet
Search strategy items
Description
Search keywords
“exercise addiction”, “exercise addict”, “exercise dependence” “too much exercise”, “obsessive exercise”, and “compulsive exercise” on Google search engine
Case identification
All the relevant search results were examined one by one to identify the presence or absence of a case of exercise addiction
Time filter
None
Type of exercise filter
None
Age or gender filter
None
Record limit
100
Inclusion criteria
- Articles in English
- Articles reporting at least one symptom of exercise addiction (salience, withdrawal, tolerance, mood modification, conflict, relapse), based on the Components Model of Addiction and…
- Articles reporting at least one physical, psychological, or social consequence (damage) to the affected individual
Exclusion criteria
- Cases that have been published in academic journals (i.e. peer-reviewed publications)
- Articles in which negative consequences of the exercise behavior could not be established
Table 2
Summary of the 100 cases of exercise addiction reported on the www
Case
Date
Case accessed
Age
Sex
Type of exercise
Symptoms
Physical damage
Psychological consequences
Social consequences
Report
S
W
T
M
C
R
Injr
Dys
Imm
Uw
Ame
Anx
Dep
Gui
Ina
LoC
LoSR
LoJ
Case 1
2002
10/10/19
NR
M
Swimming, cycling
 
   
 
  
   
SR
Case 2
2007
26/09/19
NR
M
BB, CE
 
       
 
    
Oth
Case 3
2007
26/09/19
30
M
BB
 
        
     
Oth
Case 4
2007
26/09/19
NR
M
Running, martial arts
       
   
  
Oth
Case 5
2007
26/09/19
59
M
Karate, BB, cycling
 
     
     
Oth
Case 6
2009
04/11/19
NR
F
BB
   
 
    
 
Oth
Case 7
2011
29/09/19
46
M
Triathlon
           
 
Oth
Case 8
2011
29/09/19
NR
M
Running
 
           
 
Oth
Case 9
2011
29/09/19
NR
F
Cycling, BB, running, yoga
         
    
SR
Case 10
2012
26/09/19
46
F
BB, kickboxing, triathlon
      
   
Oth
Case 11
2012
11/10/19
NR
F
BB, running, swimming, CrossFit, cycling
 
  
      
SR
Case 12
2013
14/10/19
NR
F
BB, running
     
     
 
SR
Case 13
2013
04/11/19
46
F
Running
  
    
        
Oth
Case 14
2014
18/09/19
24
F
Running
   
 
 
   
Oth
Case 15
2014
18/09/19
NR
M
BB
 
 
    
      
Oth
Case 16
2014
26/09/19
33
F
EM
 
  
 
   
Oth
Case 17
2014
29/09/19
27
F
Running, triathlon
    
       
 
Oth
Case 18
2014
29/09/19
29
F
BB, cycling, Pilates, dance class
          
 
 
Oth
Case 19
2014
29/09/19
28
F
Running
 
  
 
  
 
Oth
Case 20
2014
29/09/19
27
F
BB, HIIT
  
    
 
    
Oth
Case 21
2014
29/09/19
24
F
Swimming, Triathlon
 
    
        
Oth
Case 22
2014
11/10/19
NR
F
Running, BB
        
   
 
SR
Case 23
2014
14/10/19
NR
M
Running, hiking
  
          
 
SR
Case 24
2014
14/10/19
NR
F
BB
 
    
  
 
SR
Case 25
2015
26/09/19
NR
F
Running, BB, tae bo
 
  
 
    
SR
Case 26
2015
29/09/19
NR
F
Running BB
 
      
    
SR
Case 27
2015
29/09/19
NR
F
Running, Cycling, Swimming
 
        
 
 
SR
Case 28
2015
10/10/19
39
F
Running
    
  
     
Oth
Case 29
2015
10/10/19
42
F
Running, BB
 
 
      
  
SR
Case 30
2015
11/10/19
NR
F
BB
           
 
SR
Case 31
2015
13/10/19
NR
M
Running, Cycling
 
         
   
SR
Case 32
2015
14/10/19
NR
F
Running
  
    
 
 
  
SR
Case 33
2016
17/09/19
36
F
BB, running
 
 
  
 
  
 
SR
Case 34
2016
18/09/19
NR
F
Running, Pilates, BB
 
   
 
 
 
SR
Case 35
2016
26/09/19
35
F
BB, cycling
 
 
   
      
Oth
Case 36
2016
26/09/19
24
M
BB, cycling, triathlon
 
    
 
   
  
Oth
Case 37
2016
26/09/19
35
F
BB, yoga, Zumba, CrossFit, biking
  
    
   
  
Oth
Case 38
2016
26/09/19
NR
F
BB
  
           
 
SR
Case 39
2016
26/09/19
NR
F
CrossFit, running
 
 
          
  
Oth
Case 40
2016
26/09/19
NR
M
BB, cycling
 
        
      
Oth
Case 41
2016
26/09/19
NR
F
BB, CrossFit
       
  
   
SR
Case 42
2016
29/09/19
NR
F
Swimming, running, circuit
       
   
 
SR
Case 43
2016
10/10/19
NR
M
Cycling, running
 
 
   
  
SR
Case 44
2016
10/10/19
NR
M
Running, BB, rock climbing
 
   
     
SR
Case 45
2016
10/10/19
NR
F
BB
 
       
      
SR
Case 46
2016
11/10/19
NR
F
BB
      
 
   
Oth
Case 47
2017
17/09/19
25
F
CE
 
  
      
   
Oth
Case 48
2017
17/09/19
25
F
Running
     
 
 
 
Oth
Case 49
2017
17/09/19
25
F
BB, pole dancing
    
   
    
Oth
Case 50
2017
17/09/19
35
F
NR
     
 
      
Oth
Case 51
2017
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
    
 
  
 
Oth
Case 52
2017
26/09/19
39
F
NR
       
  
 
Oth
Case 53
2017
26/09/19
33
F
Dancing
  
 
 
  
  
    
SR
Case 54
2017
26/09/19
NR
F
Running
  
  
    
   
  
SR
Case 55
2017
26/09/19
NR
M
Running
   
         
SR
Case 56
2017
10/10/19
NR
F
Running
      
 
    
Oth
Case 57
2017
10/10/19
NR
F
Gymnastic, BB, CE
    
 
  
 
Oth
Case 58
2017
10/10/19
NR
F
Cycling
   
         
SR
Case 59
2017
11/10/19
34
F
BB
 
  
     
    
Oth
Case 60
2017
13/10/19
NR
F
BB, running
 
           
   
SR
Case 61
2017
14/10/19
NR
F
BB, running, yoga
       
  
  
SR
Case 62
2017
03/11/19
NR
F
EM
      
   
 
SR
Case 63
2017
05/11/19
NR
M
BB
 
    
     
SR
Case 64
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
BB
  
           
Oth
Case 65
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
  
    
  
   
Oth
Case 66
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
  
 
  
    
Oth
Case 67
2018
17/09/19
34
M
BB, fasted cardio, HIIT
       
    
 
Oth
Case 68
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
BB
      
 
         
Case 69
2018
17/09/19
29
F
Running, BB, yoga
           
 
Oth
Case 70
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
BB
    
 
  
  
Oth
Case 71
2018
17/09/19
33
F
Rowing
   
 
         
 
Oth
Case 72
2018
17/09/19
NR
F
Running, kickboxing
 
 
        
  
SR
Case 73
2018
18/09/19
NR
F
Boxing, running, Pilates, yoga
      
   
  
SR
Case 74
2018
18/09/19
NR
F
BB, HIIT
      
 
 
 
SR
Case 75
2018
26/09/19
NR
F
NR
   
 
    
 
Oth
Case 76
2018
29/09/19
NR
F
Dancing, tennis, basketball, CE
      
 
 
  
Oth
Case 77
2018
29/09/19
40
F
Running, boxing, BB, fasted cardio, HIIT
        
  
SR
Case 78
2018
10/10/19
NR
M
Cycling
  
      
 
  
SR
Case 79
2018
14/10/19
NR
F
BB, yoga
 
 
      
SR
Case 80
2018
14/10/19
NR
F
BB
  
 
 
    
SR
Case 81
2019
17/09/19
32
F
BB, boxing
   
     
   
    
Oth
Case 82
2019
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
 
 
 
Oth
Case 83
2019
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
    
  
 
SR
Case 84
2019
17/09/19
NR
F
Swimming, weight lifting
 
        
 
SR
Case 85
2019
17/09/19
NR
F
Running
 
 
 
 
   
 
SR
Case 86
2019
18/09/19
NR
F
BB, running
  
     
  
 
SR
Case 87
2019
18/09/19
NR
F
Running, Stairmaster, BB, swim
 
    
 
  
 
SR
Case 88
2019
18/09/19
NR
F
Stairmaster, BB
 
       
 
    
Oth
Case 89
2019
26/09/19
56
F
Running, Cycling, BB
 
          
  
Oth
Case 90
2019
29/09/19
NR
F
Swimming, cross country
       
      
Oth
Case 91
2019
29/09/19
54
F
BB
 
    
   
 
Oth
Case 92
2019
10/10/19
NR
M
Running
 
 
  
 
  
 
Oth
Case 93
2019
13/10/19
NR
F
BB
 
   
    
  
Oth
Case 94
2019
14/10/19
27
F
EM, cycling, running
 
     
 
 
    
SR
Case 95
2019
14/10/19
NR
F
Running, BB
   
  
     
  
SR
Case 96
2019
14/10/19
NR
F
Yoga, running, boxing, HIIT, BB
 
  
     
SR
Case 97
n.d.
29/09/19
NR
F
Running, BB
 
        
 
  
Oth
Case 98
n.d.
11/10/19
NR
F
NR
       
 
    
SR
Case 99
n.d.
14/10/19
31
F
BB, CE
 
    
         
Oth
Case 100
n.d.
14/10/19
31
F
CrossFit
 
       
   
  
Oth
M male, F female, n.d. no date, NR not reported, S salience, W withdrawal, T tolerance, M mood modification, C conflict, R relapse, Injr injury, Dys internal organ dysfunction, Imm immune problems, Uw underweight, Ame amenorrhea, Anx anxiety, Dep depression, Gui guilty feeling, Ina inability to concentrate, LoC loss of control, LoSR loss of social relationship, LoJ loss of job, SR self-reported case, Oth case reported by other(s), HIIT high-intensity interval training, BB body building, CE cardio exercises, EM elliptical machine

Results

The results are summarized in Table 2. The table reveals that there are four times more cases of exercise addiction reported by women, or reported on women (81) than men (19) in the 100 cases found on the Internet. Only 35 articles reported the age of the individual, which ranged from 24 to 59 years (M = 34.65 ± SD = 9.24). Body building and running were forms of exercises involved in more than half of the 100 cases. Cycling was reported in 15 cases. More than half of the cases involved more than one form of exercise. In most cases, readers could identify four or more symptoms from the Components Model of Addictions (Griffiths 2005), and most cases involved an identifiable loss or damage in two out of three categories (i.e. physical, psychological or social). Finally, nearly one fifth (19) of the cases exposed a loss or damage in all three categories.

Discussion

In appreciating the current results, one should keep in perspective that the bulk of the over 1000 articles published in the field reported cross-sectional studies using questionnaires to assess the risk for exercise addiction on a Likert scale spectrum. Two of the extensively employed tools are the Exercise Addiction Inventory (Terry et al. 2004) and Exercise Dependence Scale (Hausenblas and Downs 2002). The results based on these tools could often trigger a ‘false alarm’ in that high-risk scores may not necessarily reflect problematic exercise behaviour (Szabo 2018). Indeed, questionnaires are not diagnostic tools. However, since exercise addiction is not listed in the DSM, there is no ‘official’ diagnosis criteria for the dysfunction. Experts in the field rely on the DSM criteria form gambling disorder (Hausenblas and Downs 2002), or the symptom-based Components Model of Addiction (Griffiths 2005), which was also adopted in the current study. In addition to symptoms, the peer-reviewed published case studies all contain some sort of harm or damage to the individual due to her/his exercise habits (Szabo 2018). This criteria of at least on damage or negative consequence, whether physical, psychological or social, was also set in the current study. However, even those meeting the selection criteria (all included 100 cases) of experiencing one or more symptoms and negative consequences cannot be diagnosed in lack of accepted clinical diagnosis criteria. It is obvious that the 100 cases reported here are not superior to the 12 already published cases, but they are not inferior either, because neither in the scholastic publication nor in these Internet articles could the diagnosis of exercise addiction be established, while in both sources there were symptoms as well as negative consequences to the affected individual stemming from her/his unhealthy exercise behaviour.
One is likely to appreciate the fact that not all cases of exercise addiction surface on the Internet. Only a few affected individuals may feel that their case could help them (writing it out) or others (warning, preventing) by sharing their story. Consequently, we may expect more similar cases to exist, which may partially dissolve the concern about the disproportionally high number of research articles on exercise addiction (> 1000) in contrast to the reported cases (12; Szabo and Kovacsik 2019). Nevertheless, the path of researchers and that of the exercise addiction-affected individuals may seldom cross. The latter group when awaking to the problem turns to specialized health professionals and not to researchers, while researchers try to screen for exercise addicts within healthy exercising samples. Moreover, the screening tools used by researchers merely screens for individuals at risk (and stops there), who might never become addicted to exercise (Szabo 2018), and therefore, prevalence estimates based on this method may be inaccurate (Maraz et al. 2015).
Despite the finding that in accord with the 12 published cases, the current 100 cases also suggest that more women may be affected than men, we think that an alternative explanation may be that women are keener to disclose their story than men. Nevertheless, a literature review suggests that women may be more prone to exercise addiction than men (Fattore et al. 2014), but contrary evidence also exists (Szabo et al. 2013). Apparently, the gender differences in exercise addiction call for more research in the future. The present study also confirms that body building, running and cycling may be linked most closely to exercise addiction. However, in most cases there were multiple forms of exercise involved. While age was only disclosed in 35 out of the 100 cases, it appears that adults of any age could be affected.
The current study was able to identify 100 cases of exercise addiction based on symptoms and consequences criteria accepted in the literature. This number is nearly nine times higher than the number of cases of exercise addiction reported in scholastic writings over the past 25 years. The disproportion may be related to the search medium. In a research setting, it is hard to meet individuals affected by exercise addiction. In the public media, like the Internet, victims of the dysfunction apparently share their experiences for various reasons. If we could locate 100 cases meeting the criteria for exercise addiction, it is likely that the number of affected exercisers may be much higher. Therefore, we can reinforce that exercise addiction is a real problem that affects numerous individuals. Research to date could not produce enough evidence, as illustrated by only 12 cases published in 25 years, which might be one reason why the dysfunction is not included in the DSM-5. The 100 cases reported here may stimulate a new avenue of research on public media where scholars can have an easier access to exercise-addicted individuals.
The current study has some limitations stemming primarily from its delimitations. For example, we examined only English websites, used only the Google search engine and limited the number or records to 100. It is possible that more and/or more severe cases could be located if one uses other search engines and other sets no language delimitation. Another limitation, beyond the authors’ control, is the reliability of the publicly reported cases.

Conclusion

This study identified 100 cases of exercise addiction, meeting the current research (not clinical) classification of the dysfunction, on non-academic websites. This finding, contrasted with the meagre number of earlier reported cases, justifies the wider existence of exercise addiction as a real problem for the affected individuals. It also justifies the abundant research in this scholastic area, as reflected by over 1000 publications in field. Simultaneously, it warns researchers in the area that they may be searching in the dark, because screening out real addicts from among a group of healthy exercisers, especially with a risk-assessing instrument, is unlikely to be fruitful. Indeed, it was recommended that questionnaire-screening should be followed up with interviews to identify the addicted exercisers (Szabo et al. 2015). All cases presented here include symptoms and consequences of dysfunctional exercise and support the existence of exercise addiction as a real, and perhaps more prevalent than estimated, problem. Future investigations should examine these individuals more closely to develop a set of robust clinical criteria which will help in the diagnosis, and inclusion in the next DSM, of the disorder.

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Titel
100 Cases of Exercise Addiction: More Evidence for a Widely Researched but Rarely Identified Dysfunction
verfasst von
Ignatius Darma Juwono
Attila Szabo
Publikationsdatum
25.03.2020
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction / Ausgabe 5/2021
Print ISSN: 1557-1874
Elektronische ISSN: 1557-1882
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00264-6

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