#endorphins

What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it? The hard years in retrospect could have been a lot of fun. When my wife of thirteen years asked me for a divorce it was the most terrifying thing in my life. I was a living breathing basket case barely functioning and I was a burden to most. Or at least it felt that way at the time. It is a period in my…

Exercise Endorphins

Never had them.

Ever.

I was so jealous of those that experienced them that had I convinced myself they were lying. For decades.

The closest I ever got to experiencing it was when i pushed myself as a teenager doing calisthenics to get to the splits and leg raises etc. It was the pain, not the exercise. It was the literal measurable improvement that made me happy.

Now ………. I’m getting the endorphins. Not to the point of “let’s exercise everyday!”. But i am getting the “happy”.

Current exercise regimen is Yoga on Sundays and once or twice a week at a Kieser gym. Yoga is working my balance, flexibility, strong holding of position. Kieser is straight up strength. I walk away feeling good, from both.

Thank you Menopause.