Substantially similar post on my own journal

[alexseanchai]

A complaint I have been having is, I like physicality. I like (subject to caveats) embodiment—and frankly I suspect the cause of one of those caveats (body-wide owie) is insufficient exercise, which is to say, insufficient attention to my embodiment and physicality! I just. Time and cope, and weather outside my apartment (especially in summer and winter) and "Hurricane Alex has devastated the region" inside my apartment, and. Long story short, I spend most waking hours in one or another computer chair. As you might imagine, this is an undesirable situation.

For reasons I do not care to discuss outside lock, my cope has increased dramatically. (Shit I've literally procrastinated for a year and a half? Dealt with.) I wish therefore to try a practice of attention to physicality. And, hey. I cleaned my apartment! My living room and dining nook have a substantial open carpeted space now, so something like a YouTube video or channel that I could follow solo three mornings a week is an actual possibility!

Therefore: rec me exercise Youtubes?

I'm looking for something interesting enough to keep my attention over a span of time measured in weeks or greater, but basic enough that my (probable near-total) inexperience in the activity will not be a barrier. My priorities exercise-wise are, in order from the top, lung capacity, endurance, strength (full body), and flexibility.

I like to dance, but the only type I'm any good at is square dance; this is far too social an activity to work as my 3x/week solo morning exercise. I'm going to look for Irish dance exercise Youtubes later, though. I'm also going to try to get out to the city park to walk on the regular, but it isn't yet warm enough around here that I want to do that.

Thanks!

Comments

[rydra_wong]

I'm going to look for Irish dance exercise Youtubes later, though.

For lung capacity and endurance, anything that gets you breathing harder and your heart beating faster will do the trick. So dance could be a great option if that interests you.

Ironically, being crappy and n00bish at a movement style will actually help at improving your cardiovascular capacity, because you're going to be doing a lot more flailing. *g*

If you're okay with being "bad at" something in the privacy of your own home, dipping into different dance styles can be fun and interesting. I'm dyspraxic and can't dance, and have happily played with bellydance and modern dance and industrial and ballet workouts at home. If I treat it as movement learning and curiosity, rather than something I expect to be able to master, it's fascinating.

Depending on where your cardiovascular capacity is at present, yoga videos with "vinyasa" or "flow" in the titles might be worth checking out: they involve moving relatively rapidly from pose to pose, so they're harder to follow if you're still getting a grip on the poses, but can give you more of a "workout" than slower-paced yoga.

[alexseanchai]

I don't like being bad at anything. I recognize the need to be bad at first in order to get good! I just. *flail*

Thank you!