General wellness

[mtbc]

My back is now largely feeling better, it's just that improvement was a slow process. I'm somewhat impeded in other ways lately, it's hard for me to get my morning workouts in because first I have to drag myself out of bed early enough and, due to externalities, recently it has often been difficult to get to bed early. I shall get through it all but, more generally, I am frustrated not to be getting more done, besides quick trivia, outside work: I end up just wanting to relax in front of social media or television or whatever, I just don't feel like doing more. Nevertheless, I'll try to look out for and make my chances for more focused effort, at least occasionally; getting started is the tough part.

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[shadowkat]

You're doing better than I am. I just want to watch television, write, or play on social media. Getting very hard to be motivated to do the other stuff. I need to exercise more. I have hand weights. Also wrap around foot weights. And yoga equipment - there is no excuse. Except for the fact that I don't like to exercise.

[mtbc]

A difficult one indeed, I went for years not doing the dieting I do now, no idea what changed, so, at least for one thing that I procrastinated way too long over, I still don't know the secret.

Completely understandable if the pandemic in general is bringing you down though, just getting through all this is already a victory.

[mtbc]

I should add, the only exercise I've liked is swimming, hard to do that cheaply or conveniently, let alone safely these days.

On the cross-trainer it helped to listen to music or radio shows, for working out at home I do it in front of the morning news.

[shadowkat]

Well, there you go - don't own a cross-trainer. (Small apartment - no space.) But I take walks. Just can't do it every day. Yoga exercises, some hand weight lifting, and wall squats. So not completely horrible.

I do dance around the apartment on occasion. I like hiking. (used to love swimming - not really possible in a city, also have inner ear issues, and running - knees gave out).

[mtbc]

Yeah, I don't have one any more, it's back in Scotland with mst3kmoxie, at home right now I just have a pull-up bar and a couple of hand weights. Thinking about another cross-trainer someday, we'll see once the work on the house is done. In the longer term I'll take more walks.