Posted by dancingstar on January 24, 2005, at 15:47:02
In reply to Re: Excercise Backfire., posted by denise1904 on January 24, 2005, at 14:17:42
Now because I have been feeling so badly in the last few months, usually two days after I exercise (for me vigorously) I do crash, sometimes badly, and I, too, just want to sleep. Still, I know that the rewards are greater than the pain because I have experienced them. Being very still is painful, and moving always brings me joy.
Even ten minutes of walking outside, not enough to do any harm, will start to build your strength. Ten minutes of yoga or stretching. Ten minutes of anything.
In a month or so move it up to 20 minutes. When I say start slow, I mean really slow. Give your body a chance to enjoy the air, to relax, to breathe, to feel good.
From everything I have read, if you go any faster than you can cope with, you will not experience the positive effects of exercise, and want to give it up. If ten minutes is too many, start with five. No one is watching. Do this for yourself, in your very own way.
You will see that you can make progress if you give yourself permission to take your own sweet time about it without any pressure.
Where you start to have to push through will be when you begin to sweat and catch your breath, start to need to recover from whatever it is you choose to do. At that point, you will probably need to let your body heal longer between exercise intervals until you adjust. But you will see that you will adjust if you are patient with yourself. Our bodies are designed to move unless we are physically disabled. More than likely, unless we are injured physically, being still causes us more pain than moving. Sometime down the line, maybe in three months, you can start to test yourself, but not now. Now you just want to start to prove that you can do this. So what I am thinking is that even a brief walk around the block to clear your head is all the exercise you need to do for an entire month. See how that goes, and take it from there.
I hope I've made a bit of sense to you because so much of it is in the doing it and seeing how you feel, and you need to prove the results to yourself.
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