Exercise and Goal Setting

yes @MoonGal and i think my kidney is saying rest up and i have sinus tonight

That was a great suggestion by @CannonSalt to cover yourself with GP.

Did you see the post he made about the article warning of people faking it?

Bloody Hell .. I have had the situation where I have been accused ... doomed if you do and doomed if you dont ...

if I do my exercises I must be fit and nothing wrong ... and if I dont ... then pain and neck issues are my own stupid fault cos I am too lazy to do prescribed exercise. Hmmm.

I love your sense of humour ... keep starting ... you go, girl

My 70 yr old friend accepts a "girl" in jest ... hope you dont mind.

Walking yesterday ... gardening and vac today.

Namaste, @Former-Member, good to see you here.

Sorry you are really struggling at the moment and sending hugs for the tough weekend you have had. Have you already starting reducing your anti-psychotic? Very glad you are finding yoga to be meaningful and of benefit through this difficult time and that you had a long swim as well. I don't have easy answers to what is going with you but am here listening and just wanted to respond to hopefully relieve your feelings of being alone.

I'm in a big energy slump today too but, through writing consistently about day to day life here on the forum, I am recognising more that there are ups and downs with me just about every week and even in a single day. So for me it's a matter of holding on and riding out the rough patches as patiently as possible and making the most of the better times. It's been very warm, humid, overcast, raining and stormy here for days and I haven't left the flat much. Exercise has gone by the way. But I have to be up and out by 8am tomorrow no matter what. Will be getting a good walk up the beach to my friend's place, then more walking to doctor's appointment, and more after that to visit another friend. It's forecast to be a sunny day so hoping all will work as planned. It will be my first full day out of the flat for a long time. Usually I just go out for one to three hours at a time and then retreat back home to recover.

I'm not sure how to respond to your current loss of interest in running. There's a part of me that feels you perhaps have a tendency to push yourself too hard and beat yourself up over not achieving what you set out to do. That side of my thoughts is somewhat relieved that you may be easing up on yourself. Another part of me is sorry you feel disengaged at the moment from something that has brought a lot of focus and sense of achievement in the past. I guess that, as with me, the aim could be for some kind of balance? I may be out of line or off the mark here, just throwing out some thoughts based on what I have read from you on the forum.

Sending warm vibes your way.

A few weeks ago I was talking to an exercise person and she was the one who told me what i do is "functional exercise". Personal Bests were a good idea simply as a way to see how some skill has improved. The pressure to continually better th last one may be excessive.

Lovely to see you@Former-Member

Yoga can be good and balanced but I also knew a girl 20 years ago who was part of a group where they all went overboard in doing head stands and all the postures to compete for their guru's affection ... so take it easy on yourself ... steady steady ... keep at it ... but it is your life and your call.

If competition with self or others is too stiff then I guess it is not healthy. Because my neck pain is constantly with me and is due partly to overwork and trying too hard ..

I am so over setting goals re exercise .. Yes it is important and I have often done it for years, but I have been accused of loving discpline for the sake of it .. and had people getting into my head about it in the wrong way ... I have just completely spat the dummy on it ... that is why I have adopted my current attitude. My son was doing exercises on the floor during his psychotic break ... yeah mum had been modelling for him as best she could ... I am less needy about doing them now as I have more understanding about how far to push myself, and less flare ups.

The issues of clashes and competitiveness in groups whether they be arts or sports orientated are important. It has been one of the last things I have been facing up to ... sometimes it is best to work around the issue ... sometimes direct .. sometimes it is better to leave.

We dont always have to be supportive, sometimes saying it as it is is more necessary. We dont want to be addicted to being a little helper .. as then we are probably not aware of what are own motives are .. and are probably less helpful than we hope.

Hello @Former-Member, @MoonGal, @Appleblossom, @Mazarita, @CannonSalt,

I am getting the FLU today , feeling a bit yuk

@Shaz51, @Former-Member, @Appleblossom, @Mazarita, @CannonSalt

Hey all - I have fallen into a bit of a pit. Back pain is roaring, brain is being unhelpful. Good news is I have lost 2 kg of weight though.

Saw my doc yesterday, in relation to my discovery (from these forums) that back pain is a side effect of a particular medication I am on. That threw me for a loop, I have (i discovered at the docs) been on this med for 13 years, and the onset of back pain co-relates well to the commencement. I will be stopping the med (managed over tme) and then in about 6 weeks will know if the medication is part of the cause for my constant high levels of pain. The doc was most encouraging and interested in helping, a particualarly good doctor I have. (But I do have to wonder how, if this is a common side effect no one 'caught' the fact over the many years I have been seeking treatment and releif from rampant daily back pain - I suspect living with a MI means people do not take self-reporting sysmptoms about physical things as seriously as they do for people who are not presenting with an MI).

As to exercise... I have been walking, a few times, but not daily, I am in a fuzzle of pain and mental jerk abouts. Being photgrpahed out walking has made me want to hide. 😞

I SO wanted to get to the swimming pool this week, but even thinking about it raises my anxiety. So I just need to pull back and settle my head again.

So glad to keep reading about the Yoga, and walks and funtional exercise. It is particualrly helpful to read others have energy slumps and lack motivation some days too - I have a cas eof terminal uniqueness that wouldhave me be the only person int he universe who 'fails'. We all are up and down, its good to see that. (not 'good' as in happy good, good as in iddentifiaction that it is normal to be up and down with motivation and actually doing the plan.

Sorry to hear @Shaz51 that you are coming down with a flu and feeling yuk. Hope you get well soon.

@Former-Member, now you know yoga works for you the $75 a month option sounds doable. Whenever I have signed up for a year though I end up falling off the perch and not using the membership but often the 12 month thing is not breakable, so end up paying 'more' than I use. If you were going 3 times a week definately the way to go though.