Crying during exercise

I cried while having a personal training session once and when I completed an 8.5mile charity run!

I cried when I passed mile-marker 26 in my first marathon. It was probably the most physically demanding thing I had ever done, so it was a mix of being so proud of myself for achieving it and actually being in so much agony that I just had to let it out.

Many, many moons ago when I was in high school, I was put on the shot-put team because I wasn't fast enough to help out the team otherwise. Towards the end of the season one of the meets included a 4x4 race for non-running track team members such as myself. I got to be the last leg and finished just before the last person. I was so full of adrenaline that when I finished I began to cry uncontrollable. It's amazing what can happen when you give a person a chance...

I haven't cried during any exercise but yoga. When I was doing yoga regularly, it was a very hard and emotional time in my life and it was just so nice to be cared for by the lovely yoga instructor in class that I found that I kept crying. Soon after that started happening I moved away and have kind of avoided yoga because of how much it made me cry!

Not cried but have had a rush of emotions on odd occasions. Shbam does it to me and near the end I get the urge to grin like a Cheshire cat and even giggle.I look most strange lol. First time I ran for twenty mins without stopping I was close to crying with joy

I have. There was a time I physically could not endure the fitness I am into now. Sometimes it's overwhelming to be doing something that I could not do.

Yep, on long runs.

When I finished the 20-min run of C25K W5D3 I just stood there and howled with tears streaming down my face. That was the first time I cried during exercise.

Then there have been a few more times when I've had thoughts of quite emotional nature (tidal wave of anger, frustration, disappointment and sadness in one glorious mix) that make me so short of breath I have to stop moving entirely and just fold myself double to get some air. It is overwhelming to just stand there and hope nobody walks past you when you not only have lost composure completely, but also cry like it is the end of the world whilst gasping for oxygen. I never air my dirty laundry in public normally and it is new to me to deal with emotions through physical rather than psychological work.

No, it has not happened to me ever, but I read and see it happens to most of the peoples.

I love it when I cry after exercising - I think it means I've reached a meeting of my mind and soul.

Yes. I just considered it emotional release.
If you're like me and bottle things a lot, it's bound to come out when you're self reflecting.
Whether you mean to be self reflecting or not.

tomatoey wrote: »

No. I am usually pretty focused on whatever I'm doing. (not that I don't cry, just never have while working out)

If you're crying because something about your workout is somehow triggering strong memories, or you're thinking about an accomplishment after a long time of not accomplishing things, or if you've always had strong emotional reactions to physiological arousal, or you're in pain, that's one (or several) thing/s. Those make sense.

If you are randomly crying and have never done this before taking this BCP, it's something to take up with your doctor imo.

Yes and no.

If it seems like there could be a link between BCPs and crying, do talk with the gynecologist. If no immediate link is there, just keep observing.

We are only beginning to understand the connection between mind and body, and for instance yoga therapy mainly happens due to what others before us have observed as working or not. Scientific research is only waking up to this way of viewing the existence as human being, whereas the practical experience-based tradition spans through millennia.