How Cannabis Can Enhance Your Workout

Whether you’re someone who’s new to working out or are a seasoned pro, exercise can sometimes feel difficult or seem like a chore. If you’re looking for something that might enhance your workout and maybe make it a little more enjoyable, then cannabis might be a good option for you.

Here are a few ways that cannabis can help you improve your workout.

1. Improves Mind and Body Connection

THC and CBD in the right dose can help you to increase awareness in your body and make you feel more present during your workout. It’s great if you want to focus on your breathing, your form, or even the specific engagement of certain parts of your body or muscle groups.

Microdosing before doing things like yoga, pilates, or other kinds of slower stretching, can really help to ground you and bring you into focus with your body. It can also help dull some of the pain or soreness that you might feel when doing a new stretch or position.  

2. Makes Workouts Feel More Enjoyable

For some, cannabis heightens your senses, so it can help you enhance some of the more enjoyable parts of workout. It can make your music sound better and your movements feel smoother.

It can also help with the monotony of some workouts. Things that are very repetitive can oftentimes get boring and make you less likely to want to do it, or want to quit early. With a little bit of medicated help, those workouts can seem more fun and flyby before you know it.

3. Helps With Motivation (For Some People)

Cannabis can also be motivating for some. Picking the correct strain to use before your workout can help you to find that motivation that you might be missing. Some Sativa or Hybrid strains are great for increasing energy and breaking down that barrier to getting started.

There have even been reports of people replacing the use of preworkout with smoking a sativa strain to get ready for a more intense exercise. 

4. Reduces Exercise-Related Anxiety

A lot of people report having some kind of gym anxiety. Whether it’s embarrassment over their skill level or a fear of being judged, that type of anxiety will keep people from starting or continuing their workout journey.

Using Cannabis can help to relieve that anxiousness a little and help people to be a little more confident when working out. When you’re relaxed you have a better experience and when you have a better experience, you’re more likely to come back. 

5. Supports Recovery & Muscle Relaxation

After a partially difficult workout or after trying something that you’ve never done before, it’s normal to feel sore. Cannabis can be a great tool to use in your recovery. Things like CBD or THC creams or salves are great for relaxing sore muscles and relieving that pain you might feel.

Using a cannabis-based oil or tinctures in conjunction with stretching or massages is also another great way to aid in recovery.  

Some important notes before we go:

  • Make sure that your dose isn’t too high
    Working out when you’re too high can be dangerous. You may not be as aware of your surroundings, or what’s happening to your body. Just be mindful of your doseable and more sure that it’s not more than you can handle. 
  • Don’t try anything that needs coordination or quick reaction times
    Cannabis can often slow down your reaction times or impair your coordination. Things like heavy lifting, swimming, or using complicated machines can be dangerous if you don’t have your reflexes at full capabilities.

 

Adding cannabis to your workout routine can be beneficial in so many ways. From motivating you to get started, to keeping you going, to assisting in recovery, it really has so many benefits and uses.

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