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[alexseanchai]

okay so like

exercise that

* won't fuck with any of my disabilities
* won't feel impossible to start or maintain
* won't get blockaded by my executive function or wtfever before I get started
* won't cost money
* won't make me feel like a fail on the grounds of continuing to not meet the 150 min/wk moderate exercise guideline
* won't tempt me into excessive ambition
* will help me learn patience
* will help me increase some number of my strength, flexibility, endurance, and cardiovascular health
* will start where I am wrt all four such
* will be enjoyable, not chorelike

am I chasing a unicorn here?

(I really appreciate the effort you all put in last time I posted here! just none of your suggestions stuck. /o\ and it's incredibly frustrating.)

(also I don't understand why I chose today to start caring again? I have been complaining all week about through-the-roof pain! this is maybe not the week to reinstate a practice of physicality?)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Yeah, that sounds valid. Like I know I need to work on these things; it's just also that these things are barriers to my exercising.

I'll check those out. Thanks. :)

[indywind]

On the one hand it could be discouraging, because these things are barriers to easily accessing a typical or rewarding experience with exercising? But on the other hand, it could be encouraging, because the barriers to exercise are also themselves exercise, in the sense of challenges that use and stretch one's capabilities. And these are free, infinitely scalable, always available, and you have a lot of power to define the terms of success or progress for yourself.


I'm rooting for you. *\o/*

[alexseanchai]

:)