• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yep, I get no positive feelings from exercise. I do it to keep my blood pressure down and I fucking hate it. People say after a while it begins to feel good and you look forward to it and I want to punch all those people in the face. I started about 4 months ago and I’ve hated every day I’ve gone.

    Exercise fucking sucks. I get hot and sweaty and feel like shit afterwards. The only positive emotion is a vague sense of relief that it’s over when I’m finished.

    “Jogging is the worst. I mean, I know it keeps you healthy; but God, at what cost?” -Ann Perkins

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      3 months ago

      Well, there are a lot of exercise options, surely you haven’t tried them all…

      For example, I like riding my bike to do errands. Not only do I get exercise, but I also save some money, cross off items from my list, and feel hardcore. I don’t actually like cycling, but I hate driving more, so being able to get my exercise and avoid driving while doing errands feels like cheating.

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      3 months ago

      I get hot and sweaty and feel like shit afterwards.

      Have you tried swimming? Hot and sweaty definitely won’t be a problem there.

      For the record though I also hate cardio. It’s fine at levels which I can sustain for hours on end, that is, not jogging pace, definitely not interval training, but hiking pace. If you want interval training without grinding your brain field sports might be an option, it’s different when you have teammates and a ball.

    • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      This is my take on your comment but going to the gym and doing exercises does the same for me. I did it, I knew why I did it but I fucking hated every second of it and didn’t get any high.

      On the other hand, even middle level exercises in rugby or cycling gets me that high, fucking love it. It doesn’t even matter if I’m good at it or not.

      Sometimes, it’s more about the sport than the exercise.

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      3 months ago

      I had the same problem. Then, I was prescribed a medication used to increase dopamine, and adrenaline, production, and now it does.

      Not saying this is some trick to make exercise suddenly release a bunch of endorphins, but it very much did that for me, and when I told my doctor about it, she said that was something that commonly reported. It has even been looked into as a performance enhancing drug, by a number of sports regulation organizations.

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      3 months ago

      I never got a runners high before 10k or so. But even then it’s not a “high” it’s a strong feeling of well being and the sense that I could keep going indefinitely.

      Now that I don’t jog so much the mood improvement I get from regular exercise is even more subtle, but I still feel it’s significant.

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      3 months ago

      “I don’t believe in running unless something awful is chasing me.” – Buck Henry

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      3 months ago

      I used to be like this, then I found a competetive sport I really like and now get that feeling after a game. It’s also way more social than just running around aimlessly by yourself. So