The Pain of Red (menstruation)
Another benefit for exercising? Pain relief. Natural human pain relief. I'm quite fortunate in the fact that my monthly visits from the period doesn't usually bring about the unwanted pain and cramps. Actually the only discomfort I really get is more bloating and slight stomachaches that give me diarrhea (I think I would rather have that than constipation to be honest). I remember in middle school I used to have searing pain that would make me double up and just fall to the floor cringing. But that was luckily very rare for me, and I know some ladies have it pretty merciless. I guess I was pretty active in high school because of the stupid obligatory weekly mile runs in PE and also because I was on the swim team. So memories of cramps are very blurry. And college, walking around everywhere to get around made me mildly active.. :) However, I've had some obvious discomfort the past summer when I took a break from Insanity. I was shocked when I had cramps and I tried...