I’ve been thinking of just walking around tracks or trails but the weather over here has been cool with the wind and all. I don’t like gyms too much as there can be a lot of people there. I’ve gotten so lazy and uninterested in exercising since Covid. I eat healthy mostly except for ice cream most of the week. Haven’t worked in like a year so stay home a lot and bored af. Idk I just haven’t been myself since getting overweight and not exercising in some capacity. I have anxiety and depression as well so that factors in too. I only get motivated to make some changes when I get high at night and say I’m going to start doing things tomorrow. Once I’m sober I lack the motivation to do anything

  • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    I’d agree with all of these. But most importantly: LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

    This can sound confusing, but the more you do it, the more it feels right. It’s the whole idea behind “sports” like yoga and the key to athletic performance, even if only done for fitness.

    It’s gonna be difficult at first, but your body will tell you. If you’re done, you’re done. There’s no point in doing more. Get rest, even if it is a week, which can happen in the beginning. Especially during skeletal adaptation, which I’ve actually had happen recently after I changed from normal running shoes to minimal. If you feel any soreness that lasts too long, stop, rest. If you feel winded, stop, rest. Anything sus? Act on it. If you don’t have an unhealthy level of paranoia then you need to listen to your body’s pain signals. Sometimes pain signals even tell you to go into the pain. Be careful, but do that. If you’re freaking out because you don’t know what you should do about a feeling that’s new, take some time and see how it develops. It may just go away and not come back without effort that feels appropriate. It may come back the moment you go into activity. Just take your time, and I mean reeeaally taje your time, and try to listen.

    And whatever you do, do not trust what your head feels about you bodily fitness. Trust what your body feels.

    When we grow up sports get more of a focus about how to not injure yourself, which will make sure you maximize your potentential or minimize time spent, which is in contrast to it being mainly play for younglings. The play part never disappear of course. :)

    A tip on the overweight/depression part: You become healthy once you act like a healthy person. Doesn’t mean you are, just means you become. Also doesn’t mean you should crash diet down to a perfect bmi. A healthy person cares about themselves deeply. They want to eat the right things, which is different for everybody, they want to have a healthy gut, be able to run around in joy, even though they may be 45. If you don’t then you have other issues to fix too. In parallel. Mind and body are often described as separate, but the truth is, that the are inseparable. It’s totally fine to be depressed, just as it is fine to have a high body fat percentage. But I do not wish it on anyone for an extended period of time.

    This is based on a life full of exercise and biomechanical optimisation. I have recovered from a partial meniscus tear (weird mix of bucket handle and flap), a partial patellar tendon tear and smaller ouchies. The big ones are not gone, of course, but hardly noticeable. I have also come to know that physical wellness is nothing without mental wellness and vice-versa.

    If you want further details, hit me up. I don’t cost, I’m not a coach. I also don’t have the technical knowledge of one, so I guess that’s the reason I don’t cost.