Moncrieff<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cAnd also, they could see the training I was doing and it looked really good and I was doing these big adventures.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they didn’t see the extra five, six, seven hours of training I was doing a week hidden behind closed doors late at night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
People kept telling Mr Tyburski that what he was doing was \u201cinspirational\u201d – and he was even convinced of this himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was kind of living this double life where on the outside I was projecting, \u2018Wow, I’m doing all this great stuff, I’m being really healthy, I’m training really hard.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cMy body stayed the same because when I was doing all these extra sessions, I was like binge eating on foods to make sure that my body wouldn’t go up or down in weight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The turning point came after he completed an ultra triathlon in Morocco in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At that point, a niggling sense of doubt had already crept into his psyche that something was not right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was battling with insomnia, my depression was really bad, but I didn’t have the strength, the personal internal strength to reach out for help,\u201d he recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it was only really when I completed the ultimate triathlon, my 2,000 kilometre in 12 days ultimate triathlon from Morocco to Monaco.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd my body shut down for about the next 18 months.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘There’s a problem here’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Mr Tyburski suffered from extreme fatigue, where despite sleeping for as much as 13 hours a day, he woke up feeling exhausted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s when I knew, \u2018Hey, like there’s a problem here\u2019,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For anyone else who thinks they are suffering from exercise addiction, Mr Tyburski said there is one important symptom people should be aware of.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think one thing that I’ve seen over the years is people who think they need to exercise every day to be healthy,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, let’s exclude the professional athletes; let’s just use the everyday person who’s just trying to get fit and healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s when people start to think, \u2018I need to do this every single day and if I don’t and [I’ll] get anxious\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people get a little bit upset, if people get angry because they can’t train and it starts to dictate their daily life, that is one of the many, many signs that I’ve seen that exercise is starting to turn unhealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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