What this exercise addiction inventory measures
This page does not administer the licensed Griffiths Exercise Addiction Inventory or any clinic battery, and it cannot diagnose exercise addiction from one score. It measures how often you noticed habits clinicians and sports medicine teams often discuss when training strain shows up, organized four ways: rest day literacy when recovery feels like failure despite soreness or low sleep; injury red flags when sharp pain, swelling, or clinician advice gets overridden; social balance when workouts crowd relationships, travel, or offline joy; and quiz not diagnosis limits when unofficial screeners replace interviews, pain persists without pros, or crisis outreach stays missing. You answer 22 how-often statements about the past two weeks, with reverse-worded items so one disciplined week cannot hide frequent pain training on other days. Your responses also feed a second chart on closeness and trust habits, because shame about rest sometimes blocks asking for help. The total becomes an index from 0 to 100 where higher means more frequent reported exercise compulsion strain on this screener. Your responses suggest intensity to discuss with support; they do not prove weakness or virtue.
Rest day literacy
How often rest felt lazy, got skipped for streak guilt, or got treated as part of real training.
Injury red flags
How often sharp pain, hidden limps, or ignored clinician notes showed up versus early scaling and visits.
Social balance
How often workouts canceled people time or irritation spiked when access was blocked.
Quiz not diagnosis limits
How often quiz humility, sports medicine outreach, and 988 awareness showed up versus Griffiths myths.
How it works
Answer 22 frequency items
Rate each statement from Never to Very often for the past two weeks. Tap Next after each answer.
Answers sort into four domains
Each answer feeds one of four exercise strain groups, and every item also feeds a closeness and trust layer.
See your index and charts
You get a 0 to 100 index, a band, and two bar charts you can bring to a clinician or sports medicine visit.
Take the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI)
Answer 22 short statements to see your exercise compulsion strain index, four domain bars, and a closeness and trust chart.
What your result means
Your index is the average of all 22 answers, scaled from 0 to 100, with reverse-worded items flipped first. Higher means more frequent reported rest guilt, pain training, or social squeeze on this screener. Read quiz-not-diagnosis limits with injury bars before you treat any total as clinical proof. Persistent hopelessness or safety worries deserve crisis support, not only deload tips.
| Band | Index range | Typical reading |
|---|---|---|
| Lower reported exercise compulsion strain | 0 to 35 | Fewer frequent rest guilt, pain training, social squeeze, or quiz-as-verdict patterns in the past two weeks. |
| Mixed reported exercise compulsion strain | 36 to 65 | Some flexible weeks alongside rest guilt, pain training, social squeeze, or hype spikes on others. |
| Higher reported exercise compulsion strain | 66 to 100 | Frequent rest guilt, pain training, or social squeeze; skilled support may help more than self-attack. |
Tips at a glance
A quick takeaway graphic with topic tips (not your personal quiz scores). Start the quiz for your index, bands, and charts.
What this quiz can and cannot tell you
Can tell you
- Name rest, injury, and social squeeze habits in plain language for therapy or sports medicine intake
- Highlight when deload plans, clinician visits, or help-seeking habits are missing
- Support honest overlap conversations without forcing one online label
- Offer a baseline if you retake after one protected rest week experiment
Cannot tell you
- Diagnose exercise addiction, eating disorders, or OCD from one score
- Replace sports medicine exams, physical therapy plans, or medication decisions
- Prove you should or should not keep competing or coaching
- Substitute for crisis care when hopelessness or safety fears feel urgent
Rest days, injury signals, and quiz-not-diagnosis limits
People search exercise addiction inventory tools when rest days feel sinful, when sharp pain gets logged as weakness, or when partners say the gym always wins. Clinicians and sports medicine teams discuss compulsive exercise as training that keeps running despite injury, mood harm, or shrinking social life, often alongside diet culture, grief, ADHD hyperfocus, or team pressure. This online screener uses that reflection lens unofficially; it cannot replace interview-based assessment or tell you which single cause fits without history.
Rest day literacy covers guilt on scheduled recovery, bonus sessions that replace rest, and whether deload weeks get treated as skill. Injury red flags covers training through sharp pain, hiding limps, and ignoring modify notes from clinicians or physical therapists. Social balance covers canceled plans, irritation when access is blocked, and whether people time still happens. Quiz not diagnosis limits covers overlap honesty, refusing to treat fan screeners as Griffiths verdicts, naming sports medicine when pain persists, and knowing 988 when despair feels unbearable.
Real readers mix bars. You might score high on rest guilt while moderate on injury ignoring, which often describes streak anxiety yet occasional scaling when pain spikes. You might score high on social squeeze with low limit outreach, which can mean you feel the isolation yet still treat web totals as addiction proof. Reverse items catch overconfidence: logging true recovery days, stopping when pain spikes, keeping social plans, remembering grief and culture context, refusing quiz-as-diagnosis myths, and looking up 988 should not inflate a strain index meant to track frequency of harm-linked habits.
Pair results with siblings on this hub instead of forcing one label story. Our exercise personality quiz uses a separate humor stem bank about gym vibe, not clinical compulsion frequency here. The Bratman orthorexia questionnaire sibling emphasizes rigid food rules rather than rest-day and injury stems on this page. Browse the mental health and clinical test hub for more YMYL screeners with study-not-diagnosis framing.
Higher scores mean more frequent self-reported strain on this tool, not proof you must quit movement forever. Bring domain bars to intake so sessions start with examples, not shame. If hopelessness spikes, skip online debate and prioritize 988 or a clinician. Retake after one week of protected rest and one kept social plan when safe and compare bars, not only the total.
| Test | Focus |
|---|---|
| Exercise personality quiz | Gym vibe and consistency humor with a separate stem bank, not EAI-style compulsion frequency here |
| Bratman orthorexia questionnaire | Rigid food purity rules rather than rest-day guilt and pain training stems here |
| Emotional eating quiz | Mood-driven eating patterns rather than workout streak and injury items here |
Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) FAQ
What does this exercise addiction inventory measure?
It measures how often you noticed rest day guilt, injury red flags, social squeeze around training, and quiz-not-diagnosis limit habits during the past two weeks. You get an index from 0 to 100 plus four domain bars. Your responses suggest self-reported frequency for reflection, not a clinical diagnosis.
Is this the official Griffiths Exercise Addiction Inventory?
No. This page is an unofficial screener inspired by common EAI themes, not the licensed Griffiths form with published cutoffs. Limit items keep that distinction visible so web bars do not replace clinician interviews.
Should I keep training if my injury bar is high?
Sharp or worsening pain deserves a sports medicine or primary care review, not a quiz score alone. Stop or scale sessions when pain spikes, and bring timeline examples to a clinician instead of hiding limps to protect streaks.
How is this different from the exercise personality quiz?
The exercise personality sibling focuses on gym vibe and consistency humor with its own stem bank. This page focuses on rest guilt, pain training, social balance, and unofficial EAI reflection with separate wording.
What should I do if my score is high or I feel despair?
Call or text 988 (US) if crisis feels immediate, or contact a licensed clinician, therapist, or sports medicine team with domain examples from your results. Prioritize support over retakes when hopelessness or safety fears spike.
Who reviewed this test?
Dr. Sarah Chen, PhD reviewed the YMYL framing, crisis resources, quiz-not-diagnosis language, unofficial assessment limits, and result explanations. See our editorial policy for review standards.
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