I'm glad you found it useful! I was hoping it would help some people to share it. It's definitely good for me to remember. Sometimes it's depression, sometimes it's exhaustion caused by stress/anxiety, sometimes both, but it can be so hard to get the exercise though you know you need it. And yes, the sporty fitness nuts make it worse. These days you get the feeling you have to do it perfectly or not at all, and constantly count how much weight you can lift and eat extra protein and be obsessed with your looks and whatever, and all that is not what is healthy.
Walking and hiking are good! I haven't got anyone to coax me out, but I always pick places to live that have good areas for walking (fields, forests, parks, whatever is convenient) because I need the fresh air and the walking in nature. So I nearly always end up doing that, at least, and it's helped me a lot when I haven't managed anything else. Currently, having found something else I really love to do helps. I absolutely can't drag myself to a gym because I'll only be doing it for knowing it's good for me, but don't enjoy actually doing it. I've tried, but just no. An article like this reminds me it's okay to do it my way and not the sporty fitness nut kind of way. (Nothing wrong with actually enjoying going to the gym, of course. I just don't.)
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Date: 2017-06-11 08:10 pm (UTC)Walking and hiking are good! I haven't got anyone to coax me out, but I always pick places to live that have good areas for walking (fields, forests, parks, whatever is convenient) because I need the fresh air and the walking in nature. So I nearly always end up doing that, at least, and it's helped me a lot when I haven't managed anything else. Currently, having found something else I really love to do helps. I absolutely can't drag myself to a gym because I'll only be doing it for knowing it's good for me, but don't enjoy actually doing it. I've tried, but just no. An article like this reminds me it's okay to do it my way and not the sporty fitness nut kind of way. (Nothing wrong with actually enjoying going to the gym, of course. I just don't.)