(This is not a completely random rant)
Exercising releases endorphins into your body that activate the brain's pleasure center and make you feel happy, similar to the most commonly abused drugs. This is dangerous, and I strongly advocate for the foundation of the ECA, of exercise control agency, similar to the DEA for drug enforcement.
Yesterday, Caleb and I did five ultimate body workouts in a row, about 45 minutes of total exercising: ultimate arms, ultimate abs, ultimate shoulders, ultimate glutes, and ultimate total body express, courtesy of the On Demand Fitness channel included in our TV package. (We were actually only supposed to do two, but we got a bit carried away). Anyway, the thought of working out made us feel good and accomplished, because society has led us to think that way. During the painful, grueling, exercises, our bodies felt awful. Yet afterward, we felt great pleasure and vowed to do it again soon. CAN YOU SEE WHY THIS IS DANGEROUS????
Now, most people would agree that the following sentence is very positive; I exercised and felt good afterwards. But how about this one; I pushed my body to the limits of its endurance and it hurt, and I want to do it again. That is most definitely negative. This kind of torturous movement is bad; treat your body like a temple.
Nobody likes an exercise hangover (soreness), but athletes experience this every day. And if they don't push through it, they get jumpy, and then very lethargic and withdrawn. People need to stop this from happening. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD PAIN.
I am sore in places I didn't think muscles existed. What is this madness? People need to figure out that they have to control how much we exercise before we hurt ourselves.
WAIT, we already did, have you seen the obesity? This is just the other end of the spectrum. The ECA is a completely needed agency and I would totally hire myself to work for it and make tons of money for having the solution to this most pressing problem.
P.S. Alexandra, does this satisfy your need for a post?
Soreness in the muscles is due to lack of oxygen. Your cells have to kick into anaerobic respiration, creating lactic acid in the process, resulting in soreness. The best way to get rid of the feeling is to take a few deep breaths and massage the sore area to increase the flow of blood, bringing more oxygen to your cells.
ReplyDeleteObesity can be controlled by limiting the amount of sugar intake. The "normal" amount for women is 24 grams and for men is 36 grams. An regular can of soda contains up to 39 grams of sugar. If you look at this from an evolutionary point of view, this is what happens. Apes depended on a diet of fruits and foliage, adapting to the massive sugar intake from the fruit. As they gradually migrated to different areas, not all the places had fruits, so a new adaption allowed the apes to be able to synthesize sugar into large amounts of energy. Current humans have this adaptation, so now that our foods contain large amounts of sugar, our energy increases. Most of the energy doesn't get used up and convert into fats for long-term storage. With this logic, as long as we limit our sugar intake, obesity will not be as prevalent.
Cindy this is very interesting but has nothing to do with the original problem of addictive exercising
DeleteSorry, I just thought that this might prove that the creation of an ECA is completely unnecessary.
DeleteWhen your muscles grow and get stronger, they first get microscopic tears within the fibers. And often this is the soreness that you feel. So, if you want to increase you muscle's capacity/size, getting sore (after completing exercises in the correct way) guarantees you that your muscles are in some way changing. Exercising without getting sore is a way to maintain you muscle strength and body weight. But, if you exercise with the goal of not getting sore, how early do you stop? Getting some soreness is healthy because it means that your muscles aren't weakening and your physicality is not demising, rather flourishing and remaining strong.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you consume enough food to maintain your body, getting "addicted" to exercise doesn't need to be bad. You and Caleb did 5 exercises, something you (correct me if I'm wrong) don't usually do. Completing such physically craving tasks will always leave a more residual soreness in you body the first time, as it has not had to complete these procedures before. But gradually you will not be pushing "your body to torturous extremes" rather just completing exercises your muscles are trained and prepared to do with out the same amount of strain. So I think that getting addicted to exercise is not getting addicted to something negative, rather getting addicted to a growth process. A growth process that is perfectly healthy as long as it is accompanied with food consumption that meets your bodies needs.
And thank you Rebecca Saul for posting, xoxoxo
DeleteIt was a lot of weights, but I made caleb use the heavier ones cuz he's taller than me now
DeleteHE'S TALLER THAN YOU.
Delete^WUT NOOO
DeleteWow this post has generated a lot of lectures
ReplyDeleteYou set it up brilliantly to be ranted upon... :)
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