Minor epiphany re: exercise

[textualdeviance]

Thanks to a friend's q on FB, I think I nailed down why I hate exercising for its own sake

Comments

[tamerterra]

It probably doesn't help, but I'm officially underweight and your workouts sound like my workouts. I can do short sprints, but once my heart has started beating fast it's time for me to slow right down to a walk. I can do really slow endurance work - the rowing machine or weights equivilent of walking on a treadmill - but if I set it too heavy I know I need to stop/lighten it before I hurt myself.

I enjoy the light weights type of exercise for its own sake, because of the way my muscles feel when they've been working like that, and the rest of my body complains less because it's being trialled less (it's always the knees or ankles or shoulders that complain first, for me) than something where I'm standing up.

"If I could get some activity via smacking some orcs around with a fake sword, I might be up for it."

That's my main type of actual 'exercise'. :D

[pottsfanatic]

Then there are the people who live the 'ideal' lifestyle. You know eat all the right things, exercise daily, don't drink, don't smoke etc. and are considered healthy but still get horrific illness like stage four stomach cancer. (a friend was just diagnosed). So sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to it all. I think, like you said, you just have to do what's right for you and the world be damned.

[flippet]

If my brain doesn't have something else to focus on, the only thing I can think of is how much pain I'm in and how exhausted I am.I totally get that. I'm not particularly into exercise for its own sake - and I really don't get running, for exactly that reason. I don't get 'runner's high' - I only get side stitches and pain