Review of the researches on exercise addiction
Exercise addiction is an obsessive behavior of an individual participating in exercising constantly.In oversea countries(mainly the United States and Western Europe),a series of researches,from forming the mecha-nism and characteristics to countermeasures,have been made on exercise addiction,having preliminarily formed a theoretical system.However,many researches have not been recognized universally,thus needing to be further tested.Some sports professionals in China have also been aware of such an area as exercise addiction,but the re-searches 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.