Background Research
I began my background research by searching for previous studies that had been done with the same question as mine. I typed into the Google search engine, "who exercises more, women or men?", and nothing of any importance came up. I decided to my search by typing in "exercising survey results," and thought that it may be easier to cast a ridiculously large net and go through everything that came up. I found this website https://www.statcrunch.com/5.0/viewreport.php?reportid=48641&groupid=3049 which conducted a survey just like the one I planned on conducting, but much more in depth. The survey asked questions about gender, days gone to the gym, and even which type of workout was performed from a variety of popular choices. One weakness of the study was that it was sampled by convenience. Replies were taken from Facebook, email, and work contacts, leaving the door open for responce bias. Only 118 people responded, leaving them with enough to conduct an accurate study. 69 percent of the people that responded were women. The other 31 percent that responded were presumably men, all of ages ranging between eighteen and sixty-five. Despite not having gender specific data, I was able to find that the study had discovered that the average amount of days a week that 118 people go to the gym is roughly 2.6. Despite this data being important and helpful, it still wasn't weighing to the gender side of the arguement. Who goes to the gym more, men or women? I decided to try again with another Google search, but this time I would lean more on the gender importance and less upon the days spent at the gym. (I would supplement this with "Gym Habits") This search lead me to find a WebMD article http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/his-hers-fitness#1 titled, "When it comes to working out, Men and Women are From Different Planets." The article was very helpful in providing descriptions to male and female workout habits. It described how and where they worked out, why they workout out, and even what they wore when they worked out. On the second page of the site, I read the following statement from Amy Eyler, an assistant professor of community health at Saint Lous University School of Public Health, "No matter what kind of workout they prefer, women generally workout less than me, with most citing lack of time for a reason." This web source has been very helpful in the aspect of gender differences at the gym, but still leaves the door open as to who goes to the gym more, men or women. Ultimately, my best source is the statcrunch website because the study provided numerous amounts of evidence and data supporting the survey they had done. Although the survey being biased as to who could answer, it appears to be the best show of evidence that has been done thus far to include an answer as to which gender goes to the gym more often, males or females.-
Sleep Well!
The more muscle mass you have, the more fat your body will burn while you sleep. That means sleep gains!
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Hungry?Since you're working out, all the calories you have been burning need to be replaced, so you need to eat more.
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Memberships45 million people in the United States are members of a gym or health club. That's only 14%...
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Protein
It's very important when working out. Not consuming protein can leave you feeling hungry and tired afterwards.
