Got it. And hey, it happens to the best of us, and to the worst of us, and to all of us in between :D I shall act on it soon...
I'm working on hard on continuing to exercise
Good on yez! BTW please don't take the impression from my love of 'exercise' that I'm some sort of gym-bunny - a sub-class of modern urban twattery upon which I rightly heap great scorn and sneering snarfles - no, I'm just one of those people who's always enjoyed being fairly active and who was blursed (portmanteau intentional) with a body that complains at me if I don't use it fairly frequently - the kind of body that can't bear to sit still for long and fidgets. I was an extreme distance runner in childhood and early-early teens for the sheer love of it, but time and busy-ness and shinsplints eventually brought that to a halt, at which point I became a hillwalker for the sheer love of it... and then a Bad ThingTM happened in my mid-twenties after I'd gone back to running several miles every morning, the result eventually being that I came to associate running (proper running, mind, not this daft jogging lark) with life-threatening illness and thus never go faster than an hour's crazed racewalk (>150 paces/minute; I often pass joggers out...) in the mornings these days :D
But yes, it was the sheer bloodyminded determination to get myself out of forced bed-dwelling and away from having to use a walking stick that made me do some sort of activity every day, even 15 or 20 minutes was all I could manage before keeling over again. And that gradually increased to the hour's crazed racewalk, plus as much other activity as I can get in, and the result is that hills don't exist now and even when my immune system is doing its regular Defcon 3 tricks I still keep the system running reasonably well...
...all of which is my long-winded way of suggesting to you that you try replacing the word exercise with the word activity in your thoughts. Exercise is something people do with conscious intent; activity is just, y'know, being active. And some activities are more fun than others but there are pretty much no unbearable bad ones. Even being a lumberjack :P
p.s. Pardon the edits - my L key appears to be having issues :D
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Date: Monday, 9 November 2015 04:46 am (UTC)I'm working on hard on continuing to exercise
Good on yez! BTW please don't take the impression from my love of 'exercise' that I'm some sort of gym-bunny - a sub-class of modern urban twattery upon which I rightly heap great scorn and sneering snarfles - no, I'm just one of those people who's always enjoyed being fairly active and who was blursed (portmanteau intentional) with a body that complains at me if I don't use it fairly frequently - the kind of body that can't bear to sit still for long and fidgets. I was an extreme distance runner in childhood and early-early teens for the sheer love of it, but time and busy-ness and shinsplints eventually brought that to a halt, at which point I became a hillwalker for the sheer love of it... and then a Bad ThingTM happened in my mid-twenties after I'd gone back to running several miles every morning, the result eventually being that I came to associate running (proper running, mind, not this daft jogging lark) with life-threatening illness and thus never go faster than an hour's crazed racewalk (>150 paces/minute; I often pass joggers out...) in the mornings these days :D
But yes, it was the sheer bloodyminded determination to get myself out of forced bed-dwelling and away from having to use a walking stick that made me do some sort of activity every day, even 15 or 20 minutes was all I could manage before keeling over again. And that gradually increased to the hour's crazed racewalk, plus as much other activity as I can get in, and the result is that hills don't exist now and even when my immune system is doing its regular Defcon 3 tricks I still keep the system running reasonably well...
...all of which is my long-winded way of suggesting to you that you try replacing the word exercise with the word activity in your thoughts. Exercise is something people do with conscious intent; activity is just, y'know, being active. And some activities are more fun than others but there are pretty much no unbearable bad ones. Even being a lumberjack :P
p.s. Pardon the edits - my L key appears to be having issues :D