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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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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

Lately I’ve been doing this thing periodically I call “run like a child”, where I lace up my running shoes, go to the park and run in bursts entirely dictated by how it feels, rather than following some sort of structure. It reliably yields the best post-workout feels

QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID

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that's the shit 💪 throw off the gym trauma

7:05 AM · Oct 9, 2020Twitter Web App

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