Anti Anxiety Gym Routine
The gym can honestly be an anxious place. These are the things I do to help calm me and use my gym time to my advantage of decreasing my anxiety.
I do my best to create and ideal environment. I get overwhelmed super easily. So I avoid taking pre workout before the gym, I don't want to get too hyped up and send my anxious self into a spiral. I choose to listen to an uplifting podcast instead of loud pump music. I choose something health and fitness related so I am interested but also surrounding myself with good information and motivating myself as well. This is calming to me to listen to people talk about stuff I love.
I also take my workouts slow and controlled. I do weight lifting and I try to increase time under tension for each rep. Not only does this really get a lot out of the exercise for your muscles but still allow your heart rate to get up, it just feels calming to me. I try my hardest to be present in the gym without thinking about other stressors in my life. When dealing with weights, you kind of have to pay attention, so that you don't get hurt! Focussing on this pushes anxious thoughts away.
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