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by daveevad 1597 days ago
For my new year's resolution, I decided to swap out my daily cannabis use with swimming; and so far this year, I've actually pulled it off and swim about 1250 meters a day. It's only 25 laps and takes about 30 minutes of actual exercise. For me, it taps into a lot of the same mental benefits of relaxation and focused thought I experienced when under the influence of cannabis.

I decided to do this, in part, because I needed a tolerance break. I'm also looking forward to getting high and watching Dr. Strangelove again. One issue, I think, people struggle with is making things so binary. It may help you to stop now if you recognize you can start again in the future.
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throwaway_weed 1597 days ago
I've made a couple of other comments about exercise in here but suffice to say, I have long since deeply integrated my exercise with my cannabis consumption, it's very much part of my reward system so my challenge is not so much substituting in new exercise routines but rather keeping up what I already do without cannabis. Honestly I have known quite a lot of hardcore athletes who are also enthusiastic cannabis users, I'm almost surprised to see so many comments opposing the two, but then I have known some odd ones so who knows what's normal now. Certainly I also endorse exercise for mental health as much as physical and feel it has great benefits that way regardless of one's other habits.

Thank you

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daveevad 1597 days ago
> I have long since deeply integrated my exercise with my cannabis consumption

Me too - I love playing basketball high. I'm getting a little too old to play and sadly indoor hoops has lost a lot of appeal in the COVID era. I still love shooting free throws and seeing a ball go through a hoop.

I didn't mention this but I wasn't a regular swimmer prior to this year. I do think that the novelty of swimming helped me substitute it for cannabis. One makes so much progress starting a new thing, diminishing marginal returns and all.

With a lot of things, for instance this bug I'm procrastinating on right now, just attempting the objective feels good. Every day I succeeded at swimming and not getting high so far has felt good.

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