I’m trying to keep up my New Year’s resolution of exercising, but I’m struggling! I can’t easily leave the house to participate in classes or go to the gym, and I don’t have anyone to encourage me or hold me accountable for exercising at home.
I know I’m not the only one feeling like this! Would anyone else like to become long-distance workout buddies on this website?
- What motivates you to exercise?
- What are your goals?
- What exercise activities do you enjoy or find work the best for you?
If you’re interested, let’s encourage each other and share our accomplishments. Maybe this will help motivate positive change in our lives.
If you do the arm/shoulder stretch in the warm shower, add a massage, your arm will feel better sooner. Imo.
CWillie,
I know, because when I say I can't walk at times, it means it hurts so very much to walk, and I need to hold on to the walls, or just sit down for awhile, try again later.
Being more physically fit would help. Reminder: In a disaster emergency, we will be YO-YO. Getting up and down on our own.
YO-YO = You are on your own!
That "squat" is all I was able to do.
A reminder to increase my walking, and any exercise I can possibly do.
Hello exercise buddies!
Motivation: Our health and well being
Outside......not so much.
But I love the exercise buddies!
Last night, I did some squats and karate kicks. Will do some more tonight.
PB- how is the arm?
Julia- been walking?
CW- getting anymore walk/runs in?
I carry on. Hoping everyone is keeping moving
Hugs
I'm taking it easy right now and only doing the stretching exercises that the PT guy showed me.
How are you all doing with your exercises?
How is everyone else doing? Polar bear, how’s your shoulder? I hope it’s feeling better.
meshsque - do you have some knee braces? Those would protect your knees when you jog.
My DH used to run 5K, 10K, 15K races, 1/2 and full marathons. His knees are now paying the price. I also used to jog but knees are no longer able to take the excessive pounding. So I only jog in place for 5 to 10 minutes the most because not exercising and putting weight on the knees also cause the knees to wear out and go weak.
Julia- glad you found a nice lake to do your walking. It makes the time go by faster when you have something nice to look at.
Send - cleaning is exercise, too, and you kill two birds with one stone.
Hoping everyone can find some enjoyable activity. I am replacing the word exercise, for activity. My weight has not go n e up.
Good to hear of everyone's successes, or for just staying with it.
Smeshque, sounds good!
PB- were your efforts renewed?
Just checking in and on.
I use to jog, I loved jogging. But the years i have spent laboring on the farm and in construction with DH, and maybe the years of jogging have taken a toll on my knees. Just that they have some aches and pains every once in a while. But I have been thinking as soon as the wheat comes down, I am going to see about starting to jog again. It will be on dirt instead of concrete, which is what I use to run on. So the dirt will be less hard on my knees. I mean I still run short distance like from location A to location B and so on. But to run for the sake of running, I use to love it. And I think it would do me good. Or at least if I cannot anymore I can get it out of my head and move on to something else.
We will see. I have still been having good progress, I hope you all do too. It is rough but we can do all things.....
I hope you all are keeping active any way you can. Lots of little bits equal a lot. So a few minutes here and there add up.
Best wishes everyone, it is not an easy task. But we can do it.
And with Cwillie as a Cheerleader, how can one not do well?
Success Is The Sum Of Small Efforts, Repeated Day In And Day Out
I indulged a little too much over the weekend, so need to work it off before it takes permanent residence somewhere on my tummy.
Plus the weather is warming up soon. I plan on using the pool at least twice a week and need not scare the kids when I'm in my bathing suit.
How are you all doing with your exercise?
Although there is a community pool where I live, it is unheated, frquented by toddlers in diapers. So, for only $5, there is a huge olympic sized heated pool at the city's sports complex.
When I find my swimsuit, I will be going.
Towel, swimsuit, swim shoes, bag.
I forget, what was the question? What i s wrong with your chair?
As for forcing oneself onto t h e floor, most of us just wait for when we will be falling there anyway.