Thread: Does Working out make you zone out?

I ask this because I got a treadmill to help me loose some belly fat and I enjoyed working out on it, but it made me feel very blank like an emotionless robot just doing the very basics of daily life.

Recall was nill and inspiration for art or for staying alive was nil and I am trying to still be able to work on it but maintain my normal daily brain activity only in a more positive way.

Does anyone else notice that working out does this to them?

I have to loose weight and the treadmill is the only thing that I can actually get feedback from on how much I am losing and such. Maybe not stay on it so long? I try to go for 300 calories which is almost 2 hours.

At first I was excited about the machine and the clear-headed ness that I felt. But, it is an extreeeeeem form of lack of interest. Is this what Buddhists feel when they meditate? I've meditated before but not felt quite so empty of everything.

:-)

Originally Posted by Lady Grimbones

I ask this because I got a treadmill to help me loose some belly fat and I enjoyed working out on it, but it made me feel very blank like an emotionless robot just doing the very basics of daily life.

Recall was nill and inspiration for art or for staying alive was nil and I am trying to still be able to work on it but maintain my normal daily brain activity only in a more positive way.

Does anyone else notice that working out does this to them?

I have to loose weight and the treadmill is the only thing that I can actually get feedback from on how much I am losing and such. Maybe not stay on it so long? I try to go for 300 calories which is almost 2 hours.

At first I was excited about the machine and the clear-headed ness that I felt. But, it is an extreeeeeem form of lack of interest. Is this what Buddhists feel when they meditate? I've meditated before but not felt quite so empty of everything.

:-)

So you think the treadmill causes this feeling that you feel (or lack of one) CONSTANTLY? working out usually makes people happy and makes them less depressed. Have you started anything else around the time you started the treadmill? Maybe it's something else. Have you started the birth control pill (or a new form of birth controlpill) within the past year or two? BC pills make you feellike that...and it can take a whole year or so for it to kick in to your emotions so much.

Nope. It is just the treadmill. I haven't done anything different except eat better.

I don't think about anything on the treadmill, I just listen to a song and let it fill my head or count my steps. It is like my whole brain calms down to a dull state. It isn't painful except when I can't drream, recall, or have no feeling to do anything.

I feel like my imagination has been turned off.

Originally Posted by Lady Grimbones

Nope. It is just the treadmill. I haven't done anything different except eat better.

I don't think about anything on the treadmill, I just listen to a song and let it fill my head or count my steps. It is like my whole brain calms down to a dull state. It isn't painful except when I can't drream, recall, or have no feeling to do anything.

I feel like my imagination has been turned off.

Wow this is really weird. Maybe it's worth stopping for a few weeks to see if u feel better maybe?

I'll have to eat less and work on the treadmill less. When I do yoga or weights or anything else it doesn't effect me like that hour or two on the treadmill. I've worked out regularly before and nothing else does this. But it is hard to do the other work out stuff because my brain tries to get me to do other things or whines because I HATE WORKING OUT.

The treadmill was calming, but I think it is too calming :-)

You know its fine to feel like that, right? I have the same thing too. trust me, it's not anything to worry about... Working out kinda clears my head and I always feel better afterwards. seeing as it's in general dream discussion im guessing you are worried about your recall? It should be fine? personally, i think my recall improves when i work out earlier that day.

the thing about loss of recall stumps me... it might be all in your head? no?

It could be a simple case of fatigue. Try slowing down your routine or breaking it into smaller, spaced out segments.
When I'm fatigued, I zone out to an extreme that sounds a lot like what you described.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

It could be a simple case of fatigue. Try slowing down your routine or breaking it into smaller, spaced out segments.
When I'm fatigued, I zone out to an extreme that sounds a lot like what you described.

Yeah, I think it is that and something like a deep meditation effect.

Originally Posted by Lady Grimbones

I ask this because I got a treadmill to help me loose some belly fat and I enjoyed working out on it, but it made me feel very blank like an emotionless robot just doing the very basics of daily life.

Recall was nill and inspiration for art or for staying alive was nil and I am trying to still be able to work on it but maintain my normal daily brain activity only in a more positive way.

Does anyone else notice that working out does this to them?

I have to loose weight and the treadmill is the only thing that I can actually get feedback from on how much I am losing and such. Maybe not stay on it so long? I try to go for 300 calories which is almost 2 hours.

At first I was excited about the machine and the clear-headed ness that I felt. But, it is an extreeeeeem form of lack of interest. Is this what Buddhists feel when they meditate? I've meditated before but not felt quite so empty of everything.

:-)

Exercise does exactly the opposite of that for me. After you finish working out, get a shower and then eat a meal. Your head should be clearer than before after all of that.

Also, I think you can burn 300 calories a lot faster than two hours. Maybe you are overtraining?

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Also, I think you can burn 300 calories a lot faster than two hours. Maybe you are overtraining?

I would have thought so also, but the only thing I have to go by is the calorie counter on my treadmill that steadily counts along. I really have no clue how accurate it is.

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Your treadmill must suck/have a severe flaw. The elliptical I have at home can burn 300 calories in 12 minutes.

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Your treadmill must suck/have a severe flaw. The elliptical I have at home can burn 300 calories in 12 minutes.

I think it is relative to how fast you are walking or running. The more you do the faster the counter counts or at least that is what I always thought. But no matter where I put that incline or even if I walk briskly at 3.0 mph the counter don't seem to go any faster.

I can run for a few minutes, NOT many, at 4.0 mph but I guess unless I am going to go 10 mph for a whole 30 minutes that calorie counter is only going to count slowly.

I dunno. It's a Gold's Gym so it is a brand name and the only one I could afford.

*shrug*

Well, Magical Mike, I am back on this 'zoned out' thing. I feel very clear headed and calm and my OCD tendancies have also calmed down. I feel clear headed like I said, but it is as if my imagination is gone.

I used to be able my whole life to have vivid, or at least good, fantasies or ideas or daydreams and now I am less able to get these pictures in my head as naturally as before.

I am loosing some weight and not eating as much and trying to eat better and not eat sweets, could this be getting me into this gawd awful NORMAL state?

I don't like being normal.

I did have a lucid dream a few days ago, but one other thing has happened to me that I do not like at all. I don't have sexual fantasies any more. I've always been, ever since I was 5, a person who could have an orgasm at will and now I can't even get an interest.

I am writing a vampire story and I normally would be having all sorts of nice feelings about it but noooooo.

Is this what normal people go through every day? How can you all stand it? I mean yeah, I am almost done with a painting to sell and another and am clearer headed and have less problems with my OCD and phobias and such, except for the fear I had several nightmares last night, but I am just all dried up when it comes to sexual fantasy, imagination of any kind, being able to formulate any creative ideas, or having pictures in my head.

I have hollucinated about some strange mandalas the last few days and that was cool, but when you dream a very vivid dream of sitting on a good looking vampire's lap and there is no arousal there at all and the guy ends up playing your dad in the dream. I mean that really sucks.

No pun intended.

How can I use this calmer state to help me do these things:

Dream recall better
Lucid dream
Dream sex
Painting ideas for fantasy art

If it is the fat loss, I'll go back to being fat and eating the junkiest diet ever.

And I thought I'd edit this and say that I started drinking something called 'RockStar' energy drink at the same time this 'zone out' session, this particular one, started. I've also been working on the treadmill, though only for 20 to 30 minutes instead of longer like before. I am getting old and I'd really like to be thin once before I die, you know?

The RockStar drink has ginkobiloba and ginsing and bvitamins and something called Taurine that might be what is stabilizing my irratic OCDish brain. I read online that Taurine is prescribed to people with epilepsy to quiet the neurons. I have stopped drinking this drink as of today to see if that helps.


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