📕| “We have already discussed the evolutionary advantage of our ability to perspire. But you need more than that for long-distance running: appropriate bone structure and muscles, as well as the hormonal processes that happen during this prolonged physical activity, the production of endorphin, serotonin, noradrenaline, among others. These hormonal changes play a key role in physical and mental recovery. Of course, we all know the benefits of running on our physical health: stronger heart pump function, better circulation, more flexible blood vessel walls, better lung capacity, stronger muscles and bones, more lean muscles, smaller body fat percentage, less visceral fat and so on. We humans did not become tenacious and persevering, and thus for example long-distance runners so that our body could provide us with reward hormones, it is quite the opposite, the reward is there to ensure our endurance. The more we experience the phenomenon, the more we want to again: it is almost an addiction. Think about it, how many of us start running only to find that in a few days or weeks, exercise is more important than going out on the weekends or relaxing? This is because the hormones produced during flow (such as dopamine) give us such a reward that there are few activities we enjoy more than running once we have gotten into it. Everyone can experience flow, but we have to persevere long enough for it to kick in. Just as our ancestors did during the hunt. ”
Believe, Live, Run: A story about having faith
by Bertalan Thuróczy