Thanks! I like the variety that this adds. It's a good means of adding waviness to your routines, I'd imagine.
I personally like working out, once I'm in the groove. I've found that I only enjoy it on an empty stomach and in either long distance runs through the hills (where truly pushing it feels purposeful, and the effort is varied), or when I'm doing non-glycolitic work outs (sticking to the short periods where you're only using ATP). These crazy fast taxing short bursts are nice because your body can bounce back within 1 minute to 70% or 3 minutes to 100%, so it's easy to rotate through a number of push or pull exercises with small amounts of rest in between (I do yoga stretches and breath work in between). It may be the breath work that supplies the majority of the high, I don't know.
The main reason I like the Deck of Pain method, I think, is the randomness from a shuffled deck of cards. With nearly all other methods of exercise, I'm always counting down the miles/reps/laps/minutes, etc. But with the randomization, I only know the number of cards left and have no real idea what the next card holds (until the last one, I guess). Often, I'll shuffle more than one deck of cards and then just do 52, with the other half ready for the next workout. That way, I can have 'hard' days with some exercises and easy ones, further randomizing things.
I personally like working out, once I'm in the groove. I've found that I only enjoy it on an empty stomach and in either long distance runs through the hills (where truly pushing it feels purposeful, and the effort is varied), or when I'm doing non-glycolitic work outs (sticking to the short periods where you're only using ATP). These crazy fast taxing short bursts are nice because your body can bounce back within 1 minute to 70% or 3 minutes to 100%, so it's easy to rotate through a number of push or pull exercises with small amounts of rest in between (I do yoga stretches and breath work in between). It may be the breath work that supplies the majority of the high, I don't know.