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Exercise 4 Health, Mental Health, and Addiction vs. The Endorphin Factory

I am looking forward to walking today, as the weather is actually cloudy, in the 50 degree range, Fahrenheit, and may actually rain for a minute or two. I will feel like I am back in Seattle for a day.
 
today was back day + a tabata row HIIT session! wow i felt like was going to throw up by the end of it lol

i have gone to the gym 18 out of the past 21 days! i am so proud of myself and i feel better about myself when i hit the gym! still got a long way to go though with my lifts!
 
^aeesomeee im glad to see that more tdser's are workin out!! Keep it goin guys!

Hot yoga was amazing today. Tomorrow will be another gym sesh!
 
Visualizing my body as an endorphin factory, I was motivated to walk around the reservoir 3 times, which = 3 3/4 miles! I was stoked... it has been years since I had the time and the focus to work up to 3 times around. At the same time, I am rededicating myself to my taper plan, so no excuses allowed.
 
I note to myself here, I will contact my old Tai Chi teacher next week and get started again now I'm physically able.

He is a great teacher and we had a rapour having met him at his him before starting and chatting about my health issues and drug problems as well as our spiritual beliefs, we had a lot of common ground.

He teaches Tai Chi as I believe it should be taught, not as an exercise regime but as a means of developing a healthy mind and body through the fluid patterns of movements which seem to balance you very being and silence the inner noise. I find meditation hard but this suited me much better.

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I worked out extra hard yesterday and went up 5 pounds pretty much all around, or in the case of deadlifts, 10 pounds. I'm not too sore, but just pleasantly so, in the way where I feel the muscles building. Feels goood. :)
 
Walked for 30 minutes around the neighborhood... a little sore in my legs from my big walk yesterday, so a 30 minute walk helped lessen the pain.
 
Grear job you guys! I also did a gym sesh today plus sauna. Tomorrow is another gym sesh and some minor body workout since i want to focus on cardio.
 
I could not run today before work and I did not go to the gym. I can tell a difference and I don't like it. I am tired all day, feel cold and I am slightly depressed if I don't get my exercise in.

If I exercise first thing after waking up then I feel really good all day but if I don't then it feels like PAWS again. Yep, definitely addicted to exercising.
 
P0kemama said:
I am looking forward to walking today, as the weather is actually cloudy, in the 50 degree range, Fahrenheit, and may actually rain for a minute or two. I will feel like I am back in Seattle for a day.
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It seems Seattle is a special place for you. Have you lived there? Sometimes when we move away from our places we get homesick for a long time.
I believe it´s not so easy to adopt any city as your own. It takes time.
 
Took the puppy running off leash at dog park. Ran for 45 minutes (maybe 3 miles but it is hard to say exactly). Now I get to reward myself by going out to eat with my son and mother-in-law.
 
Erikmen said:
It seems Seattle is a special place for you. Have you lived there? Sometimes when we move away from our places we get homesick for a long time.
I believe it´s not so easy to adopt any city as your own. It takes time.
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Erikmen: Yes, Seattle has a very special place in my heart. It's nickname is "The Emerald City", and it held a magical quality in that the years I lived there were very happy years. I also have a syndrome called "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence"...I get bored easily and often want to be someplace else. Hmmm... I wonder if that has to do with my addictive nature?

Today, I actually set the alarm to get up early to walk... tried a meet-up group type of walk - sponsored by a local health care facility. More staff than participants, but got a good 2 mile walk in.
 
I walked around the reservoir with a friend.. we did three laps, so that was the 3 3/4 miles distance I walked earlier this week. It was windy out there, annoying at times, but not enough to deter us. I felt pretty good afterwards... I am praying I am getting addicted to daily exercise.
 
I rested today and back again tomorrow. I am going to teach my coworker some spinning sessions in the gym. She wants me to be her instructor lol
 
I've been going to my favorite place every weekend now that it's warm again, a beautiful mountain river/waterfall section where you can climb/walk miles upriver across boulders. It's the best and most fun full-body workout ever, intense cardio for hours plus nearly all muscles worked from all the climbing, balancing, jumping, lowering yourself with your arms and back, etc. It gets easier every week. Yesterday when I was there I climbed up the huge waterfall at the end too.
 
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