Using anger and stress as a viable workout tool can make a hopeless situation turn into your best performing workouts!
How many of us have hit a workout in no mood to train, only feeling stress and anger at whatever situation presented itself that particular day?
Those of you who decided to carry on with your workout will usually feel ten times better at the end of the workout. All that anger and negative feelings can usually be absorbed into the workout, and sometimes your best performances are achieved.
I have seen people in gyms who work shifts, and after some night shifts have approached the gym with little or no sleep, and really hit the workout hard, and you can visibly see the anger subsiding after a few tough sets of high intensity weight training. They always leave the gym a different person, and they use the workout as the ultimate de-stresser!!!
I sometimes dont wake up in the best of moods after a night of little sleep with the kids, but after my first run, i always feel 200% better, and its usually the same with the person i am running with.
If you want to categorise stress into different sections, think positive and negative.
Negative stress would be work pressures, money worries, relationship problems, family problems, job security, personality clashes, etc etc.
Positive ways to deal with it would be exercising, eating well, avoiding alcohol, avoiding negative people, sleeping better and more regular etc etc.
If you follow these rules, then the anger and negativity is likely to subside. We all have these feelings, lets not pretend otherwise, but if some sort of exercise is a daily part of our lives, we have the ultimate natural medicine for it!!!
Have a great weekend, the weather is clear and snow free so lets get out there in the fresh air and enjoy the benefits!!
