Exercises...

[fajrdrako]

Yesterday I did my second round of morning exercises, basically forty minutes to an hour of weights and crunches and so on. Miraculaously, I am not stiff today. How did that happen? After my first session, on Saturday, I was saying "ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch" every time I went up or down stairs, thanks to those lunges.

I couldn't remember how many crunches I was supposed to do so I e-mailed my trainer. (I love calling Lynne that.) Her reply: "as many as you can". This made me revise the number downward. (No, no, not really. Ulp.)

Comments

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

my sister is chronically depressed, since her teens, (she has also been treated since her teens). Many of these year (she is now 29) she did worked out regularly. Presently she goes to the gym twice a week and she walks at least an hour a day, 3 times a weeks she cycles an hour to her work. Nevertheless, she keeps being depressed.
I think she is marvelous, but it does limit my believe in sports as miracle cure. There are no miracle cures only partial ones.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I think if a person is 'feeling down', exercise helps make a person feel better. If I'm feeling neither up nor down, exercise can put me in a really good mood. If I am depressed, it doesn't make any difference at all, or it makes me feel worse by being an extra burden or challenge.

Exercise changes the blood chemistry, which is a good thing - short-term. Long term, it prevents disease, also a good thing. Enough to make me believe it's worth the terrible effort and sacrifice of time.

It makes a person feel better physically though, and gives more of a fighting chance - because being unfit makes a person tend to illness and illness tends to cause depression, or depression can cause illness in a horrible catch-22.

So I believe exercise is worth doing. I just don't believe it's easy.

[sparklebutch.livejournal.com]

Wasn't looking for a miracle cure, just something to make it easier to carry myself on my feet.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I find that exercise helps me - as long as I manage to do it with regular frequency. Current ambition: three times per week.