Feeling "euphoric" while working out

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Feeling "euphoric" while working out
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Tue, 01-04-2005 - 6:38pm
There was an article in the Washington Post about avid exercisers today.





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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-15-2004
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 6:40pm
Absolutely. I think that's one of the things that got me hooked. Sometimes I really enjoy getting into my own little world and just going to town. Other days I have to push myself to work out but it's only a matter of time before the euphoria sets in. Cheaper than crack, I guess. :)
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 6:45pm
It is like an addiction!





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2004
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 9:27pm

Yep... get it, love it, need it...

and definately cheaper than crack. LOL!

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-28-2004
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 9:34pm

Love that feeling!!!!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 10:06pm

infrequently while exercising, but frequently immediately after. i'm a total "slow twitch" - i can only remember being euphoric while doing endurance-type exercise, like running.

coincidentally, i was thinking about this today, as i walked away from the gym feeling euphoric, i was thinking how i wouldn't be so into exercising if it didn't have that euphoric payoff, and how probably the people who are most into exercising are those that are most susceptible to that euphoria - basically, we're all a bunch of druggies whose drug is exercise.

do you have the link for that story online?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 10:40pm

There was something about that in a health magazine I read--that people who love to exercise can get depressed when they can't.






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 10:47pm
Oops, it wasn't "euphoric", it was "exhilaration". The euphoric part must have been subliminal from me.





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 10:48pm
I wonder if you get that feeling if you're in good shape.





iVillage Member
Registered: 10-27-2003
Tue, 01-04-2005 - 11:11pm

Heck yeah! I love the euphoria I get after a great workout. I get angry if I don't get a good workout because I don't get that euphoria. It's like doing the dirty without getting the big O

Paula

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 8:10am
Good analogy!

Jean,






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