Is it just the satisfaction of having completed the workout? Or is there something more to it biologically?
In: Biology
There’s a book called “Dopamine Nation” by Anna Lembke. She describes our feel good and feel bad brain chemicals as goblins on opposite sides of a see saw.
When our bodies are idle, the feel bad goblins stack up. When we use our bodies, our brain takes some of the feel bad goblins off and adds feel good goblins.
Our brain has a built in mechanism to make sure we get up and use our bodies, to explore, to build new skills, to cooperate.
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