The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

How exercise makes us feel? How did you feel after your last workout? Apply as many adjectives as fit the occasion.

Now, think about how others perceive exercise. Let's say you stop a random hundred people on the

street and ask them how exercise makes or would make them feel. I'm going to guess you'd get an

interesting cross-section of answers,

likely slanted towards the negative, mostly from people who don't regularly exercise.

But hey, that's just my guess, right? Call me cynical. But when many people think about exercise,

I think their minds go directly to pain, soreness, sweat, and the general unpleasantness of it all.

That's unfortunate to say the least. I'm not going to claim that my most intensive

workouts don't leave me tired and even slightly sore. Now, genuine pain is something different.

Nonetheless, I get way too much out of my primal exercise to feel it's something to be endured or even avoided.

This brings me to those other answers, the ones more likely from folks who exercise on a regular basis.

Whether their workouts involve gym time, outdoor play, an active hobby, or something else.

What else does exercise make us feel in the moment, after the workout, and later, once the results start showing? Let's jump right in,

shall we? One, the release. A friend of Kerry has described it this way. I walk out the door

and leave all the days' stress, the work pressures, the kids whining,

the messy kitchen, the school paperwork.

As I walk faster and quickly begin to run, it's like shedding layers of weight and moving into flight.

I love that observation.

When we're in our bodies, we have a better

chance of being in the present. We get a break from neurotic worry or obsessive planning that can

drive too many of our waking hours. If we find ourselves still mired in self-talk during

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