What Is the Best Part of Working Out for You?

[Urbanney]

There are too many

• Seeing the changes in your body (probably my actual favorite)
• Better mental health (harder to measure/notice though - am I just in a good mood, or is it because I’ve been working out?)
• Better physical health/fitness
• Better sleep
• Being able to take your mind away from everything else in life and just focus on what you’re doing in the moment
• That post-workout calm and clarity of mind

This made me miss the gym so much. I absolutely love lifting weights, but with the pandemic, I’ve been stuck doing basically only bodyweight stuff and I really don’t care for it.

[Midnight]

My favorite part is seeing the results but I love working out it just makes me feel so good in every way.

 

[Exaholic]

My favourite part?

Not doing it.

[Towelney]

46 minutes ago, Urbanney said:

Better sleep

I’ve given up trying to get good sleep lol 

[Peanut]

Where I work at is pure physical work and I feel damn great! A lot of lifting/carrying and running around. I feel sweaty and exhausted after 10 hours but I feel happy. I like the adrenaline of doing the work fast and breathing in the fresh air outside. I thought I'd be buff now after 3 months but I'm still skinny! I don't know what happened (or didn't happen) there!🤣

[PokemonSpears]

NONE OF IT 

 

jk I've never been very disciplined with that, and I know the benefits, and all that. Still, I try to force myself to "work out" but I've never gone to a proper gym or something. I just do body training and I do have some equipment at home, some dumbbells, etc, but I've never been constant. First, because my previous job really drained me a lot, it consumed most of my day, I would get out of work very late at night so I was always so tired to do anything.

And now that I'm in quarantine, it's because it's been so damn hot all the time. We don't have AC in here, it's really not that common in here for houses to have AC. So it gets REALLY hot, and that's what I hate the most. The reason why most of my life I avoided exercising or practicing any kind of sports or physical activity it's because I HATE sweating, like, it just puts me in a bad mood. Right now I'm trying to force myself to follow these routines, and I start doing them, and I just have to stop, take a longer break than what they tell, not because my muscles are tired, or in pain, or I'm out of breath or something like that, but because I'm sweating like crazy, and I hate that. I hate that sensation of feeling that your head is about to explode, the sweat dripping down your face, your back, your legs, the underwear sticking to the skin I don't know how people can enjoy that or feel ok in that state.

[Peanut]

12 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

don't know how people can enjoy that or feel ok in that state.

I guess we're all all different but it is only natural that we sweat. I like being sweaty and dirty (well, my job is like that) because it reminds me that I accomplished something and it feels amazing when the fresh air hits me after hours of pure physical work!

[Spicechinodiva]

I was fine until a serious depression happened in 2002, I wanted to get the hell out of Arizona, my grandpa got a job offer to work in San Francisco for one of it's casinos. But being he was at the time 66 or 67, plus my grandma's medical doctors for her cancer battle was all here, he declined..

 

That set off a certain amount of events that I can't take back, A violent attack on both of them, My mom well she's paralyzed for what this building up episode caused. 

 

Shrink diagnosed me with bipolar schizophrenia. Police tried to intervene but my family didn't press charges. 

 

I got prescribed to a bunch of meds, My perfect metabolism was killed, cos all those pills caused a never ending hunger to the point one day I ballooned to 360 pounds. Unfortunately I'm still on a bunch of those meds, that causes this really relaxed legal stoned effect without the illegal THC, that it's extremely difficult to lose any weight. 

 

But that episode was going to happen cos everything bottled up cos I was raised with the mentality sweep it under the rug. 

 

That's what happens when your raised by people born in 1935, and 1937. 

[Britneyarmy8]

13 minutes ago, Spicechinodiva said:

I was fine until a serious depression happened in 2002, I wanted to get the hell out of Arizona, my grandpa got a job offer to work in San Francisco for one of it's casinos. But being he was at the time 66 or 67, plus my grandma's medical doctors for her cancer battle was all here, he declined..

 

That set off a certain amount of events that I can't take back, A violent attack on both of them, My mom well she's paralyzed for what this building up episode caused. 

 

Shrink diagnosed me with bipolar schizophrenia. Police tried to intervene but my family didn't press charges. 

 

I got prescribed to a bunch of meds, My perfect metabolism was killed, cos all those pills caused a never ending hunger to the point one day I ballooned to 360 pounds. Unfortunately I'm still on a bunch of those meds, that causes this really relaxed legal stoned effect without the illegal THC, that it's extremely difficult to lose any weight. 

 

But that episode was going to happen cos everything bottled up cos I was raised with the mentality sweep it under the rug. 

 

That's what happens when your raised by people born in 1935, and 1937. 

You paralyzed your mom.... 

[Spicechinodiva]

5 minutes ago, Britneyarmy8 said:

You paralyzed your mom.... 

I had a black episode, broke her back in half. 

[Britneyarmy8]

6 minutes ago, Spicechinodiva said:

I had a black episode, broke her back in half. 

[DjRobney]

....So I can eat cheese.

[Mateo]

I did work out alot but I never liked it. I liked the results but everyday was a struggle in my head to go. I wish I could have hired a personal trainer but that was too much for what I make unfortunantly. Now I've gained alot of weight cause I have no motivation to work out at home and with all the gyms closed I don't see me working out much anytime soon 😭😓.

[nerdyCPA]

I used to work out for superficial reasons - I was kinda skinny and wanted to be more of a "jock" type look. Over time, however, after some good humbling moments about what matters in life, I realized some of the substantive things I was gaining that were not superficial: a) pushing my mind/body at the same time; b) taking 60 minutes of my day and disconnecting from the stresses of life; c) putting effort in something that brings me joy.  These are all elements that I deploy outside the gym or running that have served me well in other areas of life (i.e., better able to push myself when things get tough, the importance of disconnecting to recharge, having passions- YOLO). So now I work out because of the enjoyment I get out of it and less about the superficial elements. 

If anyone is trying to find a way to enjoy working out I say this: find a physical activity that you like (might take trial and error) - it doesn't have to be the traditional stuff; it's going to suck at first but once you get going legit there is no stopping you; remember that we were all beginners at first, don't let fear/judgement stop you. =D

Cheers! 

[Peanut]

5 hours ago, Mateo said:

don't see me working out much anytime soon 😭😓.

You can always go to the park/recreation area. For me is much better than gym and it's natural! You can always start out by walking and working your way up from there!  

[breathe_on_me_toxic]

besides the antiageing effects and feeling strong af and seeing the change. its defn also the effect on men (women dont seem to appreciate hehe).