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]

There's also the option of compiling a playlist of awesome music that makes you want to dance that lasts the requisite amount of time (start short and increase it over time as your cardiovascular fitness improves), and then "dancing" to it -- where "dancing" can encompass things that are actual dance moves (sort of), random jumping around and flailing your arms, failed attempts to skip, twirling a broomstick handle over your head as if it was a sword, and anything that keeps you moving for the right amount of time.

(All actual examples I have in fact been doing this morning.)

Requires privacy and/or lack of self-consciousness.

[alexseanchai]

Heh heh. Self-consciousness is a thing even when in private!

You make a very good point, though.

[rydra_wong]

Self-consciousness is a thing even when in private!

Yeah, I get that!

I have to be in the right mood, but when I am it's really nice to be able to let go and be as flappy and odd-moving as I naturally am and move in ways I want to move, not ways that are censored to make me look like a "normal" person in public places.

And I throw in all sorts of things like bodyweight movements I'm playing with, or like the intermittent learning-to-skip project (I can now manage to skip one or two turns of the rope before getting whacked by it or entangled in it). But otherwise, I dance.

(For my personal autistic values of "dance".)

[alexseanchai]

Cool :)