Have you noticed that when you exercise, you’re in a better mood, but when you don’t work out for a few days or more – somehow that freshness of spirit isn’t the same anymore, the body feels a bit sluggish, and aches and pains start popping up here and there?
Weight training, besides having a beneficial effect on muscles and hormones, also has a beneficial effect on the spirit. It makes a person more cheerful, more energetic, more ready for life, more alive and alert. It gives you elan.
That elan is a bonus of exercise.
1. EXERCISE IMPROVES MOOD
(IF THE EXERCISE IS SMART).
AND:
2. THE MOOD-BOOSTING EFFECT LASTS ABOUT 2 DAYS.
Unfortunately, more exercise doesn’t mean a better mood. But smart exercise provides a better mood.
When you stop exercising or take a break longer than a few days – the elan and the mood improvement that resulted from exercise will start to disappear.
Every person, even the happiest in the world, will feel even better if they start exercising. But if they stop, the “bonus” they were given will go away. That is the reason why we slump after a period of inactivity.
Exercise is a very, very effective way to a better mood. If you want to get the bonus, start exercising. If you want to keep the bonus from exercise, don’t stop.
Therefore:
Exercise is an activity that should be maintained for a lifetime.
Imagine if there were a pill for a better mood without negative consequences. We would buy it every day.
The truth is that such pills exist. Smart exercise is such a pill. Smart nutrition is such a pill. Good sleep. Vitamins and minerals in the right ratio are such a pill. Working on yourself too.
When we stop exercising, the bonus leaves, and we feel a little less good. This also tells us that people who exercise irregularly will often experience fluctuations in their general well-being because they lift themselves up, then fail to persevere and fall back down. (There are two reasons why this is the case.)
If the exercising is not done correctly or doesn’t follow the equation for progress, it will likely have a similar effect to stopping exercise altogether. In that case, your elan – the bonus from exercise – can drop even though you are working out. Depending on the scale of the mistakes, not only can you lose that elan, but it can sink even deeper, resulting in irritability, tension, fatigue, a feeling of sleep deprivation, etc.
The sooner this is understood, the more productive the exercise will be.
The first thing to understand about exercise is that it is something done always, just as we must shower, brush our teeth, and cut our nails our whole lives; we don’t even have a choice – these basic things must be done if we want to avoid the immense problems that come from neglecting them.
The point is that these activities also give elan: brushing teeth, cutting nails, showering. Try not doing them for a while and see how you feel. Every day, and in this very second, you are enjoying the benefits of doing these activities. Otherwise, right now, if you had unbrushed teeth, uncut nails, or were unbathed, you would feel more or less worse!
Exercise is not a one-time operation or procedure. Just like nutrition.
Exercise is a professional attitude and professional treatment toward ONESELF.
Right living and all the beauties in life are something that must be maintained. Good form is lost if not maintained, and the best “maintenance” is improvement.
These things in life require constant involvement on our part. That involvement is our direct participation in our own happiness.
The beauties in life can only be had if we work on them daily and if we do it correctly. It is “correct” to the extent that it brings improvement to life compared to deterioration. If the final net result of our actions is improvement, to that extent, we are on the right track.
That is why the specialty of Muskultura is the improvement of body and spirit.
