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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Physical Activity in the Prevention and Management of Disease
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1508317
This article is part of the Research Topic Towards a Psychophysiological Approach in Physical Activity, Exercise, and Sports-Volume IV View all 3 articles

CRAVING FOR EXERCISE DUE TO THE DISRUPTION OF DAILY ROUTINE BY AN EARTHQUAKE

Provisionally accepted
İsmail İLBAK İsmail İLBAK 1Ahmet Yasuntimur Ahmet Yasuntimur 2Stefan Stojanovic Stefan Stojanovic 3Serkan Düz Serkan Düz 4Łukasz Rydzik Łukasz Rydzik 5Ladislav Cepicka Ladislav Cepicka 6*
  • 1 Institute of Health Sciences, İnönü University, Malatya, Türkiye
  • 2 Institute of Social Sciences, İnönü University, Malatya, Türkiye
  • 3 Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Nis, Nis, Serbia
  • 4 Faculty of Sport Sciences, İnönü University, Mapatya, Türkiye
  • 5 Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland
  • 6 University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia

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    Objectives: The research aimed to examine exercise cravings that arise from the disruption of daily routine resulting from the earthquake and the consequent mandatory absence from exercising at fitness centers.Study design: This study utilized the phenomenological design through qualitative research methods.Methods: The research sample comprises six individuals aged between 22 and 29 years. They were selected using the criterion sampling method. Data was collected through semistructured interviews, and thematic analysis was used to analyze the data.Results: Two different types of cravings were identified. The first type is related to exercise addiction, while the second type is related to anxiety-induced cravings.Conclusions: Exercise craving manifests in two ways. The first type originates from exercise addiction, emerging when an individual with exercise addiction experiences a lack of exercise. With a more clinical dimension, the second type arises from the inability to engage in training for uncontrollable reasons.

    Keywords: Craving for exercise, Interruption of physical exercise, earthquake, Craving due to addiction, Craving due to anxiety

    Received: 09 Oct 2024; Accepted: 19 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 İLBAK, Yasuntimur, Stojanovic, Düz, Rydzik and Cepicka. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ladislav Cepicka, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czechia

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