EXCESSIVE, ADDICTIVE, COMPULSIVE, HYPERACTIVE: LINKS BETWEEN EXERCISE AND EATING DISORDERS IN TEENAGERS
This review aims to better understand compulsive exercise: its definition, its development and the links between exercise and eating disorders (ED). Terms and definitions used to define compulsive exercise are described, as well as recent theories and models exploring these links. It appears that compulsive exercise is a particularly suitable term to describe the link between exercise and ED. Compulsion, perfectionism and rigidity are associated both with compulsive exercise and ED in psychological models and in models arising from neuroscience. Attention is paid to the specificities related to the emergence of these problems in adolescence.