NO PAIN NO GAIN

The mere fact that exercising can be such a painful practice is one of the main reason so many people tend to ignore all the many benefits and rewards, that exercising has to offer. But despite the pain involve, I've always enjoyed exercising. I am especially delighted on the days when I'm able to push myself a extra mile, because even though the pain was intense, that good feeling of accomplishment at the end, makes it worth all the suffering I had to endured. There is common saying in the Marine Corps that goes like this "no pain no gain" which simply means that, if you haven't really experience any pain during your exercise, then you haven't really gain anything from it. With out even having to take it to such extremes like Marines do, I believe we all should learn to appreciate the pain from exercising because in the long run, that same pain is very crucial in developing a stronger and healthier body. In this article on doctor Mirkin's website Dr Mirkin, he talked about "when muscles are damage they produce healing prostaglandins that cause muscles to become bigger and stronger than before they were exercised vigorously" (Dr Mirkin). So in other words, we all need that sore feeling we get from exercising, in order to see just about any result we're looking for.