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[demon]

I'm talking about how exercise makes you feel good, the chemicals that are released in your brain (endorphins or whatever) that supposedly dulls pain and can make you feel mentally better. I started exercising about a year ago now, and it did kind of help me break out of a chronic depression I think. But lately, and I started noticing this several months ago, it seems it just doesn't do jack crap in that respect. Like if I'm feeling depressed or anxious/frustrated about something and I'll exercise, it's like I've become numb to those benefits of exercising. I'd exercise, maybe get a slight bit of a 'high', but then right after that all the crap weighing on my mind comes right back and I feel as crappy as before I ran. What the hell happened? I want my money back.

I'm contemplating running right now, but I just can't find the motivation to do it.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Work harder you pussy!

Seriously though, I haven't become numb to it...yet...

 

[DJ Sl4m]

Sounds like your overtraining (working out muscle groups too often), it does the same thing just before you start getting sick easily.

Maybe your body needs a week off.

 

[demon]

At one point maybe I was, but by the time this was happening, I was cutting down on the cardio a bit. Now I run maybe twice, sometimes 3 times a week, and it's really jogging, not running.

 

[Mama Smurf]

The problem is you don't feel like you're making progress. The reason exercise gives me a high is that when I've finished I think: "Yes, one more step to the body I want". However, if my weight goes down or I lift less than the week before, that makes me feel even worse than if I'd not done the exercise at all.

You need to see some benefit from it, otherwise it's just running for no point. Bound to bring you down.

 

[demon]

The reason exercise makes you feel good is because your brain releases endorphins into the body, which act like "pain killers". It's a like a natural drug created by your body, and it's been scientifically proven to make you feel better. I just haven't been feeling it lately.

 

[way more]

It's like a drug. The high wears off and you need to try harder better stuff. Try something new like swimming, the row machines or even steroids.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Like if I'm feeling depressed or anxious/frustrated about something and I'll exercise, it's like I've become numb to those benefits of exercising. I'd exercise, maybe get a slight bit of a 'high', but then right after that all the crap weighing on my mind comes right back and I feel as crappy as before I ran. What the hell happened? I want my money back.

The only solution

 

[Mama Smurf]

Really? I've never felt that. I don't just feel good because I'm exercising, it all depends on how the exercising goes.

So maybe you'll lose your endorphins thing, but then you'll be like me. And I assure you, if you can manage to keep the weight off from running, that alone will make you feel good even if the exercise doesn't as you're actively doing it.

 

[RaymondCarver]

Sometimes it's hard to get the guys who play games outside.


Some of my friends stay inside all the time. Others get fair, if not obsessive amounts of exercise.


Somewhere between the two lays me.









The only thing I do know is that my friends making me go out and do something physical feels better, in fact ten times better than if I'd sat in my room contemplating things to do and what to entertain me.

 

[demon]

The only solution

A solution I know all too well. But it's not exactly a day thing, nor a daily thing.

 

[RaymondCarver]

There's some down-time involved with that. Watch it, booze hound.












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