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I haven't been on meds for a almost a decade, but this no-endorphin problem happened even when I was. I thought lowering my RHR could be a goal, but given that I'm not feeling any ill effects from it, it doesn't feel motivating enough. The only reason I'm concerned with exercise at all is because I'm a nurse so I'm well aware of all the supposed reasons I should do it, and cardiovascular disease does run in my family, and my resting heart rate has always been in the 90s, which I know isn't great. In fact, I can't come up with any concrete goals I want to work towards. I'm also not interested in body building, or even in how my body looks, so I don't have those as motivators. I'm one of those lucky people who've been naturally skinny my whole life. I realize there are other reasons besides mood lift that people exercise, but in my case I do not need to lose weight.
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I could obviously stick to working out in the evenings, but my main hobby is writing and with a full time day job evenings are the only time I have to do it, so I'd rather not spend them in as an exhausted blob. (Seriously, how people wake up at 5 am and exercise and THEN go to work just completely baffles me). The best case is I do it and think, "Meh, cool, that was a thing I did." But the worst case is I'm completely exhausted with serious brain fog and I'm useless the rest of the day. My problem, and why I've developed this complex that there's something either wrong with me or wrong with my technique, is that I have never, ever, EVER, even once in my life, felt any kind of "high" from physical activity. At 33 I'm old enough to appreciate that sometimes you just have to do boring shit you don't want to do. This isn't exactly about hating exercise-I know it's not *always* going to be enjoyable and no one feels an "endorphin rush" every time they do it. I'm sorry if this post sounds whiny as hell but I don't know where else to ask this. Do I just have to except that I'll never be a member of the exercise-makes-you-high club? Please, anyone who does feel endorphins, can you be more specific about when/how they kick in? Does it actually feel like a literal "high"-comparable to a drug? Is there a supplement I can take to make it more likely? TL DR: Do I have to get my heart rate to a certain range for a certain period of time? Do the endorphins only hit you after months of effort? (I've admittedly not stuck with regular exercise more than a month at a time). See the Related Subreddits section for other popular fitness-related subreddits.General Posting Guidelines (click for more info): No Questions Related to Injury, Pain, or Any Medical Topic Progress Posts Must Be Detailed and Useful Posts Must Be Specific to Physical Fitness and Promote Useful Discussion No Threads That Are Answered by the Wiki, Searching Threads, or Google Welcome to r/Fitness! Click Here for a one-stop shop of our most important resources.