The research followed 6,900 men and 1,971 women over several years and discovered that both the men and women who got married during that time tend to experience a dip in cardiovascular fitness, as measured by treadmill tests. Strangely enough, men who got divorced during the study saw a modest increase in their fitness levels.
These results supported the notion that once people got married and presumably, off the dating market, they would tend to let themselves go a bit. Being single or getting divorced means more motivated incentive to get in shape. However, the fitness gap between singles and married couples is not huge.
"Divorce benefit" in terms of weight loss is less seen among the women, possibly due only a small number of women were in the study compared with the number of men.
