{"id":546,"date":"2004-09-01T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T06:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/01\/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:20:29","slug":"mirror-mirror-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/01\/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror, Mirror On The Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a title=\"MIRRORS CAN MAKE WOMEN FEEL WORSE ABOUT WORKING OUT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hbns.org\/news\/mirror08-01-03.cfm\">Mirrors Can Make Women Feel Worse About Working Out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A study published in Health  Psychology found that sedentary women who  exercised in front of a mirror for 20 minutes felt less energized, less  relaxed and less positive and upbeat than women who performed their workout  without a mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Women who exercised without the mirror also reported that they were less  physically exhausted at the end of their workout, while those with a mirror  reported no change in their exhaustion level.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could have implications for encouraging physical activity  among sedentary women, especially since the standard guidelines for exercise  promotion suggest that workout rooms have mirrors on at least two of four  walls.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the recommended practice of placing mirrors in exercise  centers may need to be reconsidered, especially in centers that are trying  to attract exercise initiates, say Kathleen A. Martin Ginis, Ph.D.,  of McMaster University and colleagues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the research also found that women with good body image felt negative effects in the same environment.  That&#8217;s why I go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curvesinternational.com\">Curves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/siona.blogspot.com\">Siona<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirrors Can Make Women Feel Worse About Working Out: A study published in Health Psychology found that sedentary women who exercised in front of a mirror for 20 minutes felt less energized, less relaxed and less positive and upbeat than women who performed their workout without a mirror. Women who exercised without the mirror also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12854,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/12854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}