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2 Years of Exercise Reversed 20 Years of Aging in the Heart: Longest-Ever Randomized Trial on Exercise
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as someone who was fat, then wasnt fat, then was again i can tell you that when you're fit exercising feels pretty great.
Getting fit sucks hard though
As someone who’s been fat and unfit, thin and fit, and thin but not especially fit, I’m seconding that fitness is the key. Exercise feels better thin than fat, but it’s not nearly as fun when you’re out of shape as when you’re fit.
I don’t have the body type to be fat and fit, though, so no idea about that combo
So the body just doesn't release dopamine for exercising unless you already do it for months? That's what I'm getting from this. 🤔
If it sucks you're doing it wrong. You don't have to run a marathon on day one, do 5x3 push ups everyother day until it's too easy
I don't get it, in my experience it sucks no matter how short or long you do it. Like, if I put my arm into a 100°C oven for longer and longer it doesn't suddenly start feeling good, it's the same uncomfortable-to-stressful experience every time (and at some point it causes physical damage). Obviously with exercise your body can build up muscles to make the experience less awful, but it doesn't prevent it from being a purely stressful one, both mentally and physically (and at some point all the constant stress causes mental damage). Even after weeks there's no difference, except that I was so stressed I lashed out against everything and everyone.
I do not understand (on a subjectice level) how this can be any different for others. I've read about dopamine being supposed to be released, and it truly has to be copious amounts to block all the stress signals and somehow turn it into something positive. Basically the only sane explanations there is to me why people would do this to themselves are either external necessities or the desire to get high on built-in drugs which only works for some people (who then believe it's that way for everyone).
It sounds like you have a drastically different experience with exercise than others, to the point that you might want to talk to someone about it? Very few people get as mentally stressed when exercising as you seem to be describing.