My main form of exercise is soccer, and while I pretty much always feel better about myself physically after a game or a practice, I don't always feel better mentally. Usually I do, but there are those days when there is so much dramatic crap going on with my team that I actually get rather stressed out.
Every other time I get excercise, like if I go for a run, or go to the park with my brothers, or even just go for a long walk, I always get that mental AND physical high.
It's that feeling like I really made myself healthier today, and my legs are sore and therefore feel strong, and I'm all sweaty, which means I worked hard... It's a very satisfying feeling.
Yeah, I look gross all sweaty and red in the face, and I smell less than lovely, but as others have said, I can just go home and shower (which always feels AMAZING), plus I'm usually on such a high, that I don't really care. I'm more proud of the fact that I pushed myself hard. :-)
U probably felt that way because you may be really unhappy with your body, and just felt that work out was useless, since you feel you have such a long way to go. Or maybe you were just really having a crappy day, where you felt really sad about something, and thus getting all pumped in a workout didn't help you at all, or made it even worse. I personally am not into exercising, especially in public because I'm really self conscious, and exercising means you have to move Ur body around which catches a lot of attention on it, which is something I don't want. I like to dance in my basement sometimes for exercise, and sometimes I feel good after it, and sometimes I just feel straight up tired and miserable lol.
It depends. If I am feeling down on myself, going to the gym may not make me feel great if I cannot change up my inner voice. You can easily take the same experience and either think it is great or think it was awful, completely based on your attitude.
However, mostly a workout to me makes me feel like I am doing something valuable, that at least a half hour or an hour that day was spent on something really good and if I do cardio, it releases some endorphins that help me feel a bit better about life in general.
Not exactly a confidence boost. Just success in that I got it done. I'm a fairly lazy person when it comes to things like needless expenditure of energy even if it is necessary for being in shape so it's sort of smalls victories when I have the self discipline to workout every day. So I suppose in a sense I feel better about myself, yeah.
working out is the most amazing thing for me it makes me feel good ,feel fresh and gives confidence and enough fuel to make things explode
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Yes! Always! In fact that's a major motivation in me going in the first place when my day hasn't been so hot. I think listening to music is very important and you must challenge yourself so you feel pumped up! Don't compare yourself to the people there unless you use it in a positive way for inspiration.
i never get a confidence or self-esteem boost after workout
but if I workout extremely hard to the point where I can't walk without feeling tired or I can't lift anything with my arms, I feel GREAT! cause I know pushed my self to the limit without being lazy
I feel miserable, haha. Not depressed, just sweaty and gross. I don't think I get the "runner's high" people always talk about :P
There's a lot of stigma about guys doing yoga but it's the only form of exercise that makes me feel SO good afterward.
always,especially if its rough but you still keep going.At first of course its hard and one its likely to not do what was expected,but you´ll get better with practice and therefore feel better when you see you are advancing
Ya if you haven't worked out in a while, you'll probably be struggling the first day, and that won't be helping your confidence. But if you keep doing it then you will see improvement and you will start to feel better.
I always feel great. It even feels like my stomach is tighter/slimmer. I have sometimes felt really tired, but my friends always say they feel energized, so maybe I pushed myself too hard.
Yes. Besides the biological reaction, I do feel good. It's the little accomplishments you recognize about yourself that can really help.
I almost always feel good after I workout. It gives me a self-confidence boost because I feel like I'm making progress towards a personal goal.
Definitely. I feel more confident and positive about my body after a good workout. The more strenuous the better.
I actually immidiately look better. If I worked out 2 times a week I would be in awesome shape but I am lazy lol. I feel great too after I work out. I keep on wanting to and maybe I will start to soon.
I feel great after working out and it seems
like my body feels more free
and my face more bright and clean...:) :P
You feel awesome because working out releases endorphins which are like happy chemicals in your body!
i feel so much more confident. and because of all the sweating I feel like my body cleaned itself. plus I onl work out out in the open like soccer fields so air does the job too.
I usually get really happy after working out, because I'm just so lazy all the time. But it doesn't necessarily mean that I feel better about my appearance.
hell yea. well not appearance wise, but I would feel good knowing the fact that I'm getting there
they say THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND STEPS BEGINS WITH ONE...
Yes I do! I feel like something has lifted off my back. Big release.
I tend to feel so much more powerful and good about myself. Love it.
hell yeah. nothing like adrenaline and endorphins running through my veins!
I do feel better, tired though. As for my appearance, I shower there after I'm done and I look fine.
I definitely feel a confidence boost...it's because of those endorphin thingys that are released when you exercise. :)
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