Thought I would cry during workout

So today was only my second day of Turbo Fire. I was doing a HIIT work out. About 45 seconds into a fire drill, I just felt like crying. I think the only thing that stopped me was the fact that drills are so short that it was over before I felt the full effect of the emotional rush.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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I haven't personally but I have a friend who was at the gym and had an emotional rush like that. For her it was anger though. She was suddenly, out of the blue intensely angry! She actually stopped her workout and left the gym over it. Her trainer told her that can happen when you're in an intense workout and it's not uncommon. She went back next time and didn't have any issues, she had just pushed it really hard that day and it triggered something.

I run 4km three days a week and I occasionally get a bit weepy at the 3km mark. Oddly enough that's also the point at which everything stops hurting and I start feeling like I could run for hours so I'm guessing it's endorphins.

I've experience this a few different times. Mostly it happens when I'm not performing to the level that I'm accustomed to or if I'm pushing myself really hard and want to stop so bad, but I won't let myself. I've even left the gym when I didn't think i could control it.

I wish I could O during a workout!

I don't do any of those videos but, when I work out I sometimes get a hard-on.

I've heard of people who have never done yoga before starting to do yoga and hitting whatever pose that stretches where they hold their emotions and people just breaking out in tears.

It could be that the workout released some pent up emotions because it "touched" whatever part of you was holding them.

Nothing against what you've done OP, but here's my view, and I'm bias.

I think it's your fight or flight instinct kicking in. Overly intense situations can make you cry, puke, or get angry.

If you are working out so hard that you are getting rage or bursting into tears, you're working out too hard. You're not kicking *kitten* and being awesome, you're risking personal injury and f'ing with your desperatation/survival emotions.

Spiritual experience - akin to that? Maybe. Today (well last night till about 3 hours ago) was Yom Kippur. Went to Synagoge, we're all fasting, we're all hungry, and we're all praying.

Sitting, standing, praying, apologizing directly to God for every transgression we might have done or anyone else might have done or thought, or did without knowing, for the past year. For hours: sitting, standing, praying, reflecting, listening, praying, reading, bowing, swaying, praying . . . no water breaks . . . no food since the day before . . . one girl fainted and fell into a curtain, luckily she didn't hit the ground. I started crying during one point in the service. Several others wept quietly as well.

Was it guilt and shame that brought us to these tears?! Not really. We prepare for Yom Kippur, we've already made all our apologies, we know what's coming, and we prepare physically, lower caffine intake, hydrate days before, and eat well before the fast, but the day it happens is long and hours of prayer service, where you can't just 'sit and listen' or 'tune out' is intense.

Why are we so emotionally vulnerable, so open to God? It's most likely not just because we want to be but because we're hungry and thirsty, our stomachs are growling, our mouths are dry, and we're pushing ourselves to endure it because it's seriously and spiritually important to us.

So. . . that's your work out? Pushing yourself past a lot of discomfort to endure it?

For a religious act, okay, I get it, suffer a little, atone, get in the right head space.

But for just burning some calories? Meh! Forget it! I don't want that to be having a 'spiritual experience' just to burn off some french fries. You're wasting the best of yourself on meaningless sweat.

Now, I'm ALL for working out to get the runner's high, that feels fantastic! WOO! That actually feels kinda like sex. But working out till I cry or get mad :mad:, no thank you.

i'm doing jillian michaels body revolution. i'm two week from finishing it she has made me cry, almost puke a few, pass out almost so more like lite headed then any thing. i have felt angry but that was more at myself because i could do some of it. but i'm so happy for how far i have come