Therapeutic effects of lifting?

Supercell

So I had a shít day in work today, got into a stupid argument with someone and just embarrassed myself when I should have just sucked it up and risen above it.

Got home in a pissy humour and absolutely savagely attacked the bench (is bench day), did almost twice the amount of sets of incline , level and narrow grip presses as normal and my arms and shoulder felt like jelly by the end of it (doms tomorrow are going to be a bítch), but I feel great now.

The angers gone and I feel pretty calm about it all now and am just chilling.

Anyone else find that lifting has helped calm them down or broken them out of a mental funk?

rubadub

Yep, adrenaline is a very powerful drug. Why you see some lifters psyching themselves up

I have had that effect a few times lifting, but moreso cycling, dodgy cars etc driving me mental, I can scream along on the bike after it, pure adrenaline rush. Great buzz

celestial

Longfield wrote: »

So I had a shít day in work today, got into a stupid argument with someone and just embarrassed myself when I should have just sucked it up and risen above it.

Got home in a pissy humour and absolutely savagely attacked the bench (is bench day), did almost twice the amount of sets of incline , level and narrow grip presses as normal and my arms and shoulder felt like jelly by the end of it (doms tomorrow are going to be a bítch), but I feel great now.

The angers gone and I feel pretty calm about it all now and am just chilling.

Anyone else find that lifting has helped calm them down or broken them out of a mental funk?

Defo! Absolutely improves my mood no end. Find it's great for clearing that 'fog' you get when you have spent a lot of time just hanging round the house, been out drinking couple of days earlier and the like. Exercise gets those endorphins streaming into your system so you can't help but feel good!

Hanley

Longfield wrote: »

So I had a shít day in work today, got into a stupid argument with someone and just embarrassed myself when I should have just sucked it up and risen above it.

Got home in a pissy humour and absolutely savagely attacked the bench (is bench day), did almost twice the amount of sets of incline , level and narrow grip presses as normal and my arms and shoulder felt like jelly by the end of it (doms tomorrow are going to be a bítch), but I feel great now.

The angers gone and I feel pretty calm about it all now and am just chilling.

Anyone else find that lifting has helped calm them down or broken them out of a mental funk?

All the time man. All the time.

g'em

Longfield wrote: »

Anyone else find that lifting has helped calm them down or broken them out of a mental funk?

Yup. Even told a National newspaper about it.


/shameless self-promotion

Supercell

Its amazing, I bet though if I recommended to any of my friends to hit the gym and lift some weights, if they were feeling down, that they'd take me seriously though it probably is the best thing they could do mentally and physically for themselves.

celestial

Longfield wrote: »

Its amazing, I bet though if I recommended to any of my friends to hit the gym and lift some weights, if they were feeling down, that they'd take me seriously though it probably is the best thing they could do mentally and physically for themselves.

Yup, kinda like trying to convince someone who is tired and doesn't exercise that exercising will make them feel LESS tired - just doesn't compute!

Nothing like lifting metal to make you feel great.

flywheel

not having a home gym it really depends on how busy the gym is / the attitude of the other members there at the time... sometimes your stuck with people who think they own the place and you're in their way... those times it's not so therapeutic...

xebec

Longfield wrote: »

Its amazing, I bet though if I recommended to any of my friends to hit the gym and lift some weights, if they were feeling down, that they'd take me seriously though it probably is the best thing they could do mentally and physically for themselves.

Very true. I have used exercise to help me with problems and keep using it to help prevent relapse into those problems. Definitely helped speed up my recovery and it's so rare that exercise has a bad mental effect on someone.

daveyie84

Regular exercise and a good diet is one of the best ways to beat depression. It must be therapeutic.

the drifter

id have killed someone by now if i wasnt/couldnt lift heavy......

Saabdub

Yea, I find after a bad roadrage incident my benchpress strength goes up:mad:. Something about the fight or flight refex. There was a documentary on Discovery Channel Sunday Night (The Human Body...) and a climber trapped under a dislodged 200kg boulder managed to lift it off his body and escape. He wasn't a lifter, it was completely hormone-induced strength:eek:

Saabdub

Malteaser!

DubWireless wrote: »

not having a home gym it really depends on how busy the gym is / the attitude of the other members there at the time... sometimes your stuck with people who think they own the place and you're in their way... those times it's not so therapeutic...

I was only talking to Hanley about this yesterday.

I find that if I go to the gym in the evening times, it's packed, you can barely step away from your bar for fear of it being taken on you, you have people coming up asking are you nearly finished etc. When I go in at that time, it seems the session won't ever be that productive and more times than not if I go in a bad mood, I come out even more grouchy coz of all the distractions.

However, if I go in early in the day, the place is empty, there's more serious lads in, the general atmosphere is better, you can really just get in there and do your thing. I think those sessions are way more therapeutic and productive.

thirtyfoot

Ronnie O' Sullivan took up running and he reckons it has helped him win in the battle with his demons. He now considers himself runner first, snooker player second. I think if exercise can sort Ronnie it can sort anyone. By the way, he doesn't just regard himself now as a jogger or fun runner, he sees himself as an athlete and even competed in the Essex cross-country champs and was 5th scoring man on the winning team

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.html?in_article_id=420712&in_page_id=1781

Colm_OReilly

When you move through pain and release all excuses you discover yourself and understand just how short you have been selling yourself. A feeling of invincibility washes over me as I lie in a crumpled heap on the floor...

WHIP IT!

Colm_OReilly wrote: »

When you move through pain and release all excuses you discover yourself and understand just how short you have been selling yourself. A feeling of invincibility washes over me as I lie in a crumpled heap on the floor...

Great quote Colm...

Really agree with Malteaser's points - for probably 10 months of the year, two of my midweek evenings and usually one of my weekend mornings is taken up with GAA so I only get two real opportunities to hit the weights, sometimes only one, in the week - so when the place is packed and ya don't get your stuff done it's so frustrating - I hate that feeling that your session has been wasted.

ICX

Saabdub wrote: »

Yea, I find after a bad roadrage incident my benchpress strength goes up:mad:. Something about the fight or flight refex. There was a documentary on Discovery Channel Sunday Night (The Human Body...) and a climber trapped under a dislodged 200kg boulder managed to lift it off his body and escape. He wasn't a lifter, it was completely hormone-induced strength:eek:

Saabdub

Leatal. lost a few euro's on the pony's today, and guess what? took it out on the bench with a 115kg PB.:D