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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

[indywind]

Other people have had some good suggestions wrt exercise options. I'll answer on a different tack. As ever the case for free advice from random internet people, use your own judgment in applying to you.


I notice a lot of the things you're looking for from exercise aren't about the exercise at all, but about you.
What youlike, how youfeel, what fitsyour your particular dynamic needs and abilities...
There is no particular exercise that will all these qualifications (and at the same time, there are numerous ones that might work), because you're not describing what you need from an exercise, but what you need from your experience of exercising which is more than half about you --the attitude, effort, and abilities YOU bring to the relationship.

Patience, ambition, feeling of failure, feeling of enjoyment, bypassing executive function limits, those are completely independent of the type of exercise you do; they're more like skills or mental habits of their own. You may do better if you address those separately from the habit of getting X minutes of movement per day.

This guy has a lot to say about forming "sticky" and effective habits. If you're open to thinking of exercise in those terms, have a read:
http://jamesclear.com/habits#What%20Are%20Habits?

http://jamesclear.com/articles

[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]

:)