Hello, /r/Anxitety.

Interested to hear your experiences regarding cardiovascular exercise.

From what I've heard, high-intensity cardio is often seen as the most potent form of exercise for reducing anxiety. I've tried it on and off and have a few questions:

1. How many days a week do you do cardio?

2. What kind of cardio do you do?

3. How would you describe the intensity of the cardio?

4. How long do you do this cardio per the days you work out with it?

5. What are your general experiences with the results of cardio? Either from what you're doing above, or in past regimens?

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Here are my personal answers:

1. 0 to 2

2. Treadmill, did stairclimber today

3. Medium for treadmill, high intensity for stairclimber (pouring sweat)

4. 20 to 30 minutes

5. Cardio is very odd for me. There are some times when it seems to induce a panic attack, like today on the stair climber -- there are times when high intensity running outside (of course, this was interval training) would give me a euphoric feeling. Regarding treadmill I can sometimes come off feeling a bit euphoric from medium intensity. 

I do wonder what the best heart rate or intensity to keep cardio at is for burning anxiety, but not inducing a panic attack is. Someone once told me you should go as hard as you can but to the extent where you can still carry on a conversation with someone the next machine over.