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The Other Twilight Zone
  • When you first start exercising, it can feel painful and wrong. It's distressing because you're not used to it. When I started basic training, I wanted to run off in the woods everytime I knew we were headed for PT (Physical Training)
  • It doesn't take that long before your mind realizes that you are not being hurt, so you still may not like it, but it isn't actually distressing like it is at first.
  • Daily repetition causes workouts to blur in memory, creating a "zone" effect.
  • Alert and concious during the workout, afterwards you find it difficult to remember the time passing.
  • You can daydream, plan, listen to the music, whatever, and you'll remember that, but not the exercise you were doing at the same time.
  • More than once I've slipped away in my head and been startled at how quickly an exercise bike ride passes.
  • More dramatic is something like pullups. After awhile, you can't remember the last couple of reps unless you focus on remembering at the time or concentrate hard on recollecting afterwards.
  • The effect in one way is similar to "twilight sleep". You can remember some details if you concentrate really hard, but they're slippery.
  • The difference is that with exercise you can remember what you were thinking about, the exertion part is just filtered out.
  • You can get almost a meditative effect with resistance training by working smoothly and without cheating until you feel like you're pushing or pulling an immovable object. Focus on the feeling of the impasse in your muscles and try to think about whether you're really expending all your effort. Eventually, you get mildly addicted to the feeling
  • You can do the same thing with crunches if you do them slowly and methodically. Eventually you start focusing on pushing against the tension and resisting the urge to release and the feel of the lactic acid burn so you're aware of effort but not so much of physical discomfort.
  • Another good one is wrist extensions and wrist curls. You can work up to a point where you're just barely moving at the end - but the lactic acid burn - it hurts so good.
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