Yeah, you know what? I somehow managed to do consistent cardio for 1.5 years. Consistent as in every other or every third day, building up my cardio slowly from 20 minutes all the way to 1.5 hours. Literally never helped my mental health.
An interesting thing I noticed is that it would magnify my current emotion. If I was angry, it would make me angrier. If I was sad, it would make me sadder. If I was neutral, it would either do nothing or occasionally make me slightly more happy. If I was already happy, it would make me elated.
Of course, if you’re struggling with mental health to begin with, you can see how it would be counterproductive to me. Struggling with mental health means that I generally wasn’t often in the happy camp to begin with.
I never really got the benefits people claimed. People always said I was doing it wrong. You’re just not running fast enough. You’re just not running far enough. So I did. I tried harder and harder. I was eventually consistently running 7-8 miles consistently, and having met 10 miles a couple of times as my farthest distance. I was consistent.
I stopped late last year. I want to get back into it soon because it’s great for your heart, not because it ever helped my mental health.
It just doesn’t work for me, I guess. I am very glad that it does work for some people. Everyone out there should give it a go…if not for your mental health but your physical health.
But everyone seems to claim it as a one size fits all. It isn’t.
Yeah, you know what? I somehow managed to do consistent cardio for 1.5 years. Consistent as in every other or every third day, building up my cardio slowly from 20 minutes all the way to 1.5 hours. Literally never helped my mental health.
An interesting thing I noticed is that it would magnify my current emotion. If I was angry, it would make me angrier. If I was sad, it would make me sadder. If I was neutral, it would either do nothing or occasionally make me slightly more happy. If I was already happy, it would make me elated.
Of course, if you’re struggling with mental health to begin with, you can see how it would be counterproductive to me. Struggling with mental health means that I generally wasn’t often in the happy camp to begin with.
I never really got the benefits people claimed. People always said I was doing it wrong. You’re just not running fast enough. You’re just not running far enough. So I did. I tried harder and harder. I was eventually consistently running 7-8 miles consistently, and having met 10 miles a couple of times as my farthest distance. I was consistent.
I stopped late last year. I want to get back into it soon because it’s great for your heart, not because it ever helped my mental health.
It just doesn’t work for me, I guess. I am very glad that it does work for some people. Everyone out there should give it a go…if not for your mental health but your physical health.
But everyone seems to claim it as a one size fits all. It isn’t.
I can very much relate to this.
Good to know I’m not just weird/alone with this lol.