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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]

I tried that. Choke point here is "I can't actually dance through a whole song". I mean, to be fair I did not try any actually slow songs? And I did not try resting through a second song and then dancing again on the third song? So it is worth another try; thank you. (I'm just not optimistic.)

[fred_mouse]

When you say 'can't dance through a whole song' do you mean 'can't do frenetic club dancing' or do you mean 'couldn't do a box waltz or cha-cha or other relatively low key dance step' for a whole song? Because sometimes I can manage the latter (although the usual such dance around here is known as the Canadian Two-step), and that is enough to move enough that the 'having been lying down too long' pains settle just a little.

[alexseanchai]

I have no clue how to waltz or cha-cha. Or frenetic club dance, for that matter. I was just moving however made sense at the time. Valid point, though!

[indywind]

Who says you have to get through a whole song?

Doing moving with music for 30 seconds of a 4-minute song you can look at either as trying dancing and failing (to complete a 5 minute song) or trying dancing and succeeding (in doing more movement on purpose than you would have otherwise).
Both are true.
You get to pick which way you'll think about it.
Pick the one where you feel encouraged about what you did, and willing to do some more.

[alexseanchai]

Hm, true point. :)

[fred_mouse]

Ah oops. I kind of assumed that most people learn at least those two, and some others - an introductory bit of ball room dancing is typically part of the primary school (government school) curriculum here!

The logic to the question though is that I find that the repetitive movements are easier to maintain, and I can do them while reading -- which is another thing that I do standing up/moving a bit to add movement into my day.

[rydra_wong]

Ah oops. I kind of assumed that most people learn at least those two, and some others - an introductory bit of ball room dancing is typically part of the primary school (government school) curriculum here!

How fascinating -- that would absolutely not be a given over here (UK). Though it's been a while since I was at school ...

I wonder what other assumptions we all have about what other people had as part of their "physical education" curriculums in schools?

[fred_mouse]

I wonder what other assumptions we all have about what other people had as part of their "physical education" curriculums in schools?

At the risk of going off topic, although at least it is on topic for the comm:

That would be very interesting to find out! I tried to get my 15 y.o. exempt from compulsory 'physical education' because they were doing 15+ hours of extra curricular dance and other physical training, and was told that at that level it is all about team sports because the aim is to promote teamwork rather than actually to be providing any kind of fitness/exercise. This was in their last year of middle school*, which is the point at which compulsory phys. ed. stops. But what I remember - in city primary schools, there will pretty much always be two weeks of being driven to the local swimming pool for half hour swimming lessons; there will be assorted track and field and team sports, which will continue through middle school, although the events change; and there will be an assortment of other bits and bobs, including ballroom and bush dancing. There will probably be one 'cross-country' run each year, which might just be two laps of the block the school is on, and there is never enough training for that. Oh, and from about year 5 there are school carnivals and inter-school carnivals, and from about year seven they add in swimming carnivals as well!

*local system is K, P, 1-6 is primary, 7-10 is middle and 11-12 is senior, where the last two groups are usually in the same school and generally referred to as high school.