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Can confirm, some people don't get "exercise high". I've never experienced it either, not even when I was a full-time martial arts instructor.

But a chocolate chip cookie, still warm from the oven... Uuuh, later dudes.

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I used to run a few miles a day, almost every day for about a year. During that time I had runners high exactly 1 time. It was truly amazing - I felt like I could run forever. Had no muscle pain, no shortness of breath, it was like running on air. I only stopped because I was at the end of the run, and normally I would have collapsed, but I could have kept going that day no problem. I have never been able to repeat it.

I wonder if I would have eventually died like a horse if I kept going? ;)

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