Will doing really intense workouts actually cure depression? I'm so fricking tired bros.
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Will doing really intense workouts actually cure depression? I'm so fucking tired bros.
Nope
>I'm so fricking tired bros
what kind of tired?
WERE JUST GONNA KILL EM
Yes, you're probably low testosterone. You also need to fix your attitude but it's almost impossible to convince people to adopt positive / goal oriented mindsets so start lifting.
I'm in a rehab center for drug addiction (I know that's part of my depression) all I have is a barbell with 2 25 pound weights, 1 20 pound dumbell and 1 25 pound dumbell. What should I do while I'm here?
>bench press/pushup
>overhead press
>squat
>rows
You don't havery much but you can progressively overload the fundament compound exercises. Go ahead and just do bodyweight variations if you end up maxing out the weights you have.
Oh, also good luck with recovery. Shits hard bro, keep it up.
Sets of 4 - 8 reps or higher
Barbell work:
Single leg RDL
Bulgarian split squats
Rows
Overhead press
George Hackenschmitt style bench press. (Look at photos on Google) - super set these with pushups
Barbell curls
Skull crushers
Dumbbells:
Curls
French press
Skull crushers
Lateral raises (since you only have 1 x dumbbell use a wall to brace)
Bent over later raises
Dumbbell pullover
Row variations
Lunges
Goblet squats
You don't have to do all that but pick some and try it.
Thanks guys, I wish there was a way to do pull ups/Chin ups.
It's tough to hit the lats right without pullups, but the rows will help them grow.
Either way I'll buy a gym membership when I get discharged from rehab. I'm so tired of being miserable and I genuinely want to change my life.
You can do it anon. Become the best person you can be.
I have no idea what depression means
It's an absence of will to live. It's weakness or despair, animals in captivity get it. People will prescribe drugs to captive animals for depression, but the reason depression rates are high in humans is there is very little space for owned territory / we hardly challenge ourselves. If you're American, you're sat at a desk for 8 hours 5 days a week from kindergarten until graduation in highschool. The lack of movement, territorial exploration, and growing into your strengths creates weak willed people. To cultivate virility a man should make time for areas to explore, strength accumulation, skill mastery, and interaction.
There are other things associated with depression, like bad mindset and bad health or finances. Stress / bad diet correlates to depression too. Its defining state is no will to get out of bed or do anything/ wanting to not exist.
usually if im feeling depressed i notice i've been skipping the gym for a couple weeks and upon returning feel my brain chemistry go back to normal. maybe its totally subjective but i think there's a reason many chess grandmasters advocate regular exercise for maximum brain power.
You want to go the other way with it if you have depression or anxiety issues. Higher frequency workouts on the minimalist end of intensity and volume. Just building routines in general is mentally healthy.
While I have not been diagnosed with depression, nor do I believe that I do possess a true chemical imbalance, exercise has been and shall be one of the best things I have done and will do.
Weightlifting with proper music is fun. Eventually, you get to maintaining a physique instead of achieving it. When stagnation occurs, try something new. For me, this would be cardio (distance running).
Another thing that has helped me, is that, no matter the pain, to examine myself and my conduct, why I did what I did, and why I want to do what I do. Why do I have my beliefs? Where did they come from? etc.
Good rest, good nutrition, and limited (for IST is social media) social media is good.
Depends entirely on you. Fixating on numbers just gave me a new thing to be neurotic about. Now, maintaining solid numbers but focusing entirely on progress in jiujitsu is much healthier for my mindset because every failure is a learning opportunity and there are much finer incremements of improvement to be made to many aspects of the game. I can study endless books and online resources and drill when i'm not in class. Having a bad roll isn't as much of a setback and doesn't feel like spinning my wheels nearly as much as a week where I failed to progressively overload a lift at all.
They give me some reprieve because I'm moronic and pretend I'm training with Piccolo.