After you exercise (and independent of correlating things e.g. social effects from group exercise), your mood generally gets:
- much better48.1%
- slightly better46.7%
- slightly worse4%
- much worse1.2%
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The more interesting question is: Do you experience withdrawal after the euphoria?
Two neat studies below show how our body's response to exercise is similar to that of opiod drugs. It would be surprising to not feel momentarily better after exercise!
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Or maybe a better way to put it is: people should feel “all of the above”, depending on how long after exercise the mood sample is taken
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I feel like a champion after I've lifted a bunch of weights, even if it's alone in a dark basement.
