The personality type could influence the type of exercise that a person prefers, according to a study.
The link could help those who try to be more active, but fight to make long -term changes to find something they enjoy, the researchers said.
For the study, the experts of the University College London (UCL) gave 132 volunteers a training plan and strength of eight weeks or told them to rest.
Resistance levels were evaluated before the start of research using exercises such as presses and cycling tests, while stress levels were measured on a scale of one to 10.
The researchers used the Big 5 personality test to evaluate the dominant personality traits using five different groups.
These are extroversion, or how energetic and extrovert is a person, kindness, which includes attributes related to trust and compassion, consciousness, which reflects traits such as order and reliability.
The other two features are neuroticism, which measures emotional stability and the trend of anxiety or humor changes, and openness, which describes the will of a person to test new experiences.
Dr. Flaminia Ronca, of UCL surgery and interventionist science and the Institute of Sports, Exercise and Health (ISEH), said: “We find some clear links between personality traits and the type of exercise that the most enjoy participants enjoy, which I think is important because we could use this knowledge to adapt the recommendations of physical activity to the individual, and hopefully help the help to be more active.”
Of the group, some 86 people completed the program.
The researchers found that extroverts tended to enjoy high intensity training, such as high intensity intervals (HIIT) training.
In other places, those with strong neuroticism features preferred activity explosions on prolonged intensity.
They also prefer not to be monitored or register their heart rate during the study, which researchers suggest that they could indicate that they prefer to receive space and independence while exercising.
Dr. Ronca added: “We know that the world's population is becoming more and more sedentary.
“You often listen to people trying to be more active, but struggling to make lasting changes.
“In this study, we wanted to understand how personality can influence this to support the development of effective interventions for changes in health behavior.”
Professor Paul Burgess, from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, said: “We discovered that people who obtained more scores in the personality feature of neuroticism showed a particularly strong reduction in stress when they undertook the recommended physical training in the study.
“This suggests that there may be particular benefits in reducing stress for those with this feature.”
