#exercise thoughts

[estrangherongmata]

I've been thinking about this sa tuwing nag eexercise. Yung sinabi ni Karen Davila sa TV patrol that goes something like this:

"You exercise for good health not just because you want a good figure"

My motivation kapag tinatamad mag exercise and run.

[aurora-nova-fic]

I discovered Florence + The Machine thanks to this amazing video. “No Light, No Light” struck me as interesting framing for a conversation between Julian & Garak. When I got to “Seven Devils,” it reminded me of that fic I’m never going to write where Section 31 kills Julian and Garak completely destroys it in revenge. 

And these are the things I think about when I’m making myself exercise.

[toucheartips]

I worked out again today, a cardio workout with weights during part of it. I follow body project on you tube, and find their workouts to be intense with plenty of ways to adjust to make it more difficult or easier. This flexibility is important to me because I have injured my legs in the past by working out and have low blood pressure issues that get exasperated by becoming too hot.

Unfortunately the best way I can manage is diet and exercise, even if exercising can make the issue worse in the short term. It becomes harder when your body stops craving salt :(

[quandongcrumble]

I’m a strong believer in “do what you enjoy” when it comes to exercise, but sometimes there isn’t something you enjoy. So do what you hate least. Do what’s easiest. Do what you have the most luck getting motivated for. If your own health and mobility aren’t motivating enough for you (and they often aren’t for me, I get it), do what you can to add motivation.

By that, I mean add a motivator. If it’s hard to motivate yourself to go for a walk but it’s easier if you commit to walking with a friend, enlist a friend’s help. If it’s hard to motivate yourself to go to the gym once you get home from work, go directly to the gym from work. If you’re like me, and can’t stand to waste money, add a financial motivator (if that’s in your budget). I don’t see a trainer 3x a week because I can’t train alone, I do it because I won’t train alone. Left to my own devices I won’t go. But because I have paid a guy to train me, I have to show up or I’ve let him down and wasted my money.

Idk what the point of this is I’m just musing about exercise and mobility but I guess in the end I want to say that I know it’s hard and sometimes you have to trick yourself. And that it’s ok to manipulate yourself into going.

[valiantlybeautifulnightmare]

So, umm, I just started tapering for my first ever race (sprint distance triathlon). (It's this Sunday.) (The more I think about it the more I stress). For someone who only picked up the athlete label my accident (it was a typo, I was going for adventurer), I find myself really hoping I enjoy this. I've also signed up for a 10k trail run in July which will involve the adventurer label.

[missionmeblr-blog]

Day 1 at the Gym

Notes on a girls first time at a new gym I'm sweaty and exhausted! But feel great (and slightly sore !) > Intimidated I think this is the way I felt most during my first gym sesh - there was no one rude to me or cruel in anyway I just saw all these people who just seemed to know what they were doing and thinking to myself "how do I get to that" I figured that I would fake it til I made it and decided that if I looked confident when I tried a new machine I could trick my brain into just figuring it all out But thankfully every machine has instructions (phew! 😅) The other thing I found is that I was constantly comparing my own work with the people next to me - mostly in the cardio zone while I was using the treadmill. I've never been one to love the treadmill but I thought it would make for a good warm up to the day but as I started I was only doing a power walk on a minor incline while the people next to me were jogging, running, sprinting! And the whole time I thought to myself "oh god they must think I'm so lazy! Or weak!!!" But I did really enjoy my first day though! I got my bearings on a lot of the machines and felt a lot better about going tomorrow than I did today. I think I need to get out of my head and more "in the zone" and maybe try and figure out how to not get so paranoid about what the people around think of my workout ways!

[bloodbuffy]

Film.

It just occurred to me (okay, I knew this but only now did I sit back and actually appreciate it)... I think it's absolutely amazing that some actors go through a complete physical transformation for roles that won't be their first or last. While normal human folks like myself can't get off their ass. Take Black Swan for example. Portman and Kunis would have had to train like crazy in the very limited amount of time they have to get to a believable pro ballerina look. People train their entire lives to get away with this shit. All that just for a visual which might not even turn out very memorable in the end.

Then we have seemingly less mind blowing transformations, but... jeez, try doing even that! Christian Bale in every role, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, even Renée Zellweger for Bridget Jones. Which is a romcom. Some may argue that they get paid to go through with it, but does that make a person's daily life any easier? You may be paying more for legumes you don't even like to begin with.