Marriage Partners Can Equal Fitness Partners

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

24 Sep 2006 05:00 AM

I write for the marriage blog as well as the fitness blog and the following could actually be placed in either blog. I elected for here in fitness because we talk about parents motivating their kids and working on improving their kids' fitness all the time. It's equally important to work on maximizing your spouse's fitness because in turn, they can help you maximize yours.

Marriage is:

A contractually committed partnership, including sexual love, cohabitation, shared economy/property and mutual childrearing; socially approved and legally acknowledged emotional, sexual, and economic relationship between two or more individuals

The definition of marriage that most of us hold to be true is that it is a partnership. Marriage requires teamwork and trust. What more can you ask from a fitness partner but team work and trust? But combining fitness and your marriage can have a positive effect on your physical health and your marriage health. How, you ask?

Here are a few examples:

• Skiing together can workout your lower back and leg muscles as well as get your heart racing, it's also not a competition and you both get to laugh and enjoy together, not to mentioning snuggling afterwards to warm up
• Dancing together can use your legs, buttocks and back muscles as well as charging your heart up, it's also a great way to be in each other's arms and to explore not only the romantic possibilities, but also the fun
• Tennis gets you moving from side to side and as fun as it can be, it's definitely a cardiovascular exercise that tones legs, arms and buttocks and despite playing against each other, it's a game of strategy and skill that will let you and your spouse play with each other
• Golf is definitely a sport that works the oblique muscles as you twist to hit drives across the fairway and it's not really an aggressive sport that makes a huge deal of how much under or over par you are and considering there are at least 18 holes to walk along in order to play, it gives you and your spouse plenty of time to talk, there's also lunch afterwards
• Swimming & Scuba Diving offers a full body tone and swimming is an activity you can do with the whole family, scuba diving takes a bit more in the way of training - the great thing about scuba diving is that you can't talk a lot while you are doing it, but you learn to look into each other's eyes and enthuse about your adventures before and after

Fitness and exercise are great ingredients in any marriage and can offer both of you a lot of bonuses. Do you and your spouse enjoy exploring physical fitness side of your relationship?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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