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Does exercise make you feel good? I mean stuff like 'runner's high' or a general increased mood afterwards. This is *not* including correlational stuff; e.g., social boost from sports with friends, achievement/pride boosts from weight goals, fun from physical games, etc.

Yes, absolutely
52%
Yes, slightly
28.7%
No noticeable change
11%
I usually feel worse
8.3%

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6:37 AM · Oct 9, 2020

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For me, it's the difference between having an excitement and vigor for life, and being too depressed and tired to function.

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Depends. Running does little for me, but like, contact fight exercise make me feel good

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the main reason I workout is psychological benefit. gotta flush the system through with those sweet sweet neurotransmitters

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By “exercise” I’m including Beat Saber as exercise.

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@papayathreesome

Oct 9, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

Depends the exercise. Running or other cardio makes me really tired and unproductive and sometimes miserable. Regular lifting makes me really horny and a happy baby. High-intensive lifting = cardio

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 9, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

only when my muscles are sufficiently loose

Maciek Gorywoda

@makingthematrix

Oct 9, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

For me it works the best after a long distance bicycle ride. Running makes me exhausted a bit too fast. But I can ride a bicycle the whole day and after a few hours I usually have this moment when I'm grinning from ear to ear 😀

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I've never had anything like a "high" but yes, it does make me feel better physically and emotionally (even though I'm just as fat as I was before that session).

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It has to be in the “Goldilocks zone”. I used to overdo it, work out too hard and get headaches, nausea, all sorts of stupid bullshit. But a light-to-medium workout gives me the nice micro-opiates

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If it's a good run then I get into what feels like a meditation. There is usually an immediate mood boost, but also a raising of general mood if I'm running 3x+ per week. I can feel it in the type of tiredness I get: exercise tired = good. Too much screentime / bored tired = bad