I don’t know what a runner’s high feels like, but I do know the feeling of an asthma attack.
As a kid I was very active doing sprints and riding bikes and a bunch of other stuff. Never, ever had a positive feeling after all of that activity based on having done exercise. If the things I was doing were not enjoyable on their own, I wouldn’t have done them at all.
As I get older and the aches and pains of exercise increased it has fallen away because the whole experience is fucking work. So much work with no immediate reward. I’m with you, where the hell are those endorphins?
Yeah, there are actually exercises that I generally enjoy, like table tennis. Issue is getting to a place with table tennis, finding someone of somewhat comparable skill level who wants to be there at the same time and is fine playing with someone with very little stamina, not injuring myself.
I tried jogging for a couple of years, but it’s just not fun and I never felt like I got a general happiness boost out of it.
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You’re supposed to get endorphins from exercise? I must have been doing it wrong.
I don’t know what a runner’s high feels like, but I do know the feeling of an asthma attack.
As a kid I was very active doing sprints and riding bikes and a bunch of other stuff. Never, ever had a positive feeling after all of that activity based on having done exercise. If the things I was doing were not enjoyable on their own, I wouldn’t have done them at all.
As I get older and the aches and pains of exercise increased it has fallen away because the whole experience is fucking work. So much work with no immediate reward. I’m with you, where the hell are those endorphins?
Yeah, there are actually exercises that I generally enjoy, like table tennis. Issue is getting to a place with table tennis, finding someone of somewhat comparable skill level who wants to be there at the same time and is fine playing with someone with very little stamina, not injuring myself.
I tried jogging for a couple of years, but it’s just not fun and I never felt like I got a general happiness boost out of it.
I think you really only get an “endorphin rush” when you’re just starting with exercise and you over-exert yourself to pain levels.