Here’s an interesting motivation to get started working out consistently—make it a couple’s activity and you’ll enjoy spending that time with your significant other. It’s almost like you’re tricking your brain to do something happily that you’d otherwise find tedious.

As anyone in a real relationship will tell you, it doesn’t get any easier finding time out of both your busy schedules to spend with each other. But working out together can give you that time especially since it’s something great for healthy living and it is an activity you would engage in on your own.

Apart from the extra motivation your partner brings, there are also many amazing benefits of working out with someone you share a strong bond with which can help strengthen your relationship alongside your muscles.

Sometimes we have certain expectations when it comes to how our partners look. Improving your health should be the biggest goal of working out, but if you can work on your appearance and be more confident in your body, it can definitely have a positive impact on your relationship. In the process, you’ll get to see that you both motivate each other as gym partners and could serve as the other’s trainer.

Picture a lazy day that you don’t want to get out of bed but the person lying next to you is up and knows there’s a workout session you’re both supposed to have. Your partner is not going to let you bail on them especially when they know how important their role is in motivating you to achieve your goals.

Having a trainer around when working out is important for a number of reasons but an important one is for safety. If you work out with your partner you will feel a lot safer too. You’ll have someone to keep an eye on you, help you out if you’ve taken on more weight perhaps than you can lift off and you just need some assistance to get it down and stop.

Your partner is someone who loves you and would always check to see you’re doing okay and can check your form as well. For couples, it’s great to do this because this is some quality time you’re spending together paying attention to each other’s needs and communicating. There’s always some extra bonding to do in relationships because you can never get too close to the person you’re spending forever with.

It also helps to have more activities that you do together as a couple. No two people are the same and couples can have very different interests, so activities that both of you find exciting to do together are a plus and you should grab the opportunity whenever it’s there. Pursuing fitness goals together is one of such opportunities and it can get even more exciting with extra activities like biking with each other or going for runs.