Sweating To Sobriety: Exercise Group Helps Recovering Addicts

blog.newsweek.com:

More than 13 years ago, as Scott Strode was struggling to get his drinking and drug use under control, the gym in Boston where he boxed offered refuge. "All the guys in the gym were sober because they were training for fight," says Strode, 37. "It was a place I could go where I knew there wouldn't be any pressure to use or drink.

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Comments

[tploomis]

Exercise helps for depression, too. With addicts and alcoholics, involvement with a healthy activity and interaction with others engaging in that activity are both likely to decrease the chances of relapse and increase connections to people and things outside their addiction patterns. However, an addict is likely to have problems with moderation with exercise, with a tendency to overdo activity, resulting in injury or burn out. Others that have faced this issue successfully can help the newer members of the group.

[Mnemanth]

Dude, this is one of the most uplifting things I've seen in a long time. People not falling prey to being "victims", and taking charge of their lives. Absolutely cool!