Exercise and Goal Setting

@Silenus

You will be happy to read that I went for a walk today with the dog down the beach. It is windy and cold but i loved it. I loved feeling the cold sea air on my face and my hair blowing everywhere (not a good look but i don't care!!)

And now I am home and I am so glad i did go for a walk, and so is my kelpie dog. She is even more happier 🙂

If I can keep doing this daily even in winter it will increase my motivation. Thank you for your post and suggestions. 🙂

@Silenus I can picture you with a big smile 🙂 while you were reading my post.

I will try my hardest to walk daily, it will be my goal to walk daily but if i don't i won't beat myself up.

i need someone to keep a track on my goal of walking. i need motivation.

Glad i have made your day:)

I might even go for another walk later this afternoon. Sometimes it's easier to walk in the cold because you warm up while walking and that cold air hitting my face - it's so refreshing.

Hi @BlueBay, really fantastic to her you got yourself out for a walk and enjoyed it so much! Well done!

Went to hydrotherapy yesterday for the first time ever. At the time it feels gentle but I think it's probably more of a workout than it seems. I could feel the endorphins pleasurably relaxing the body afterwards. Five more weeks of it to go.

That's great @Mazarita!

I guess it makes sense that it's more of a workout than you think - you're moving your body through something a lot thicker than air, with the added bonus that it's gentle on your joints. What a great form of exercise.

Did you enjoy it? Was it fun? I remember years ago, I used to swim a couple of kms in the local outdoor heated olympic-size pool 3 or 4 mornings per week. There was an aquarobics class, and they all seemed to be having a ball, with the music going, chatting away to each other as they exercised...

OK so I didn't go for my second walk yesterday. After my phone call from my therapist telling me she is no longer able to see me, I hibernated inside and cried 😞

Hoping tonight after tea I can go for a walk. At least I went for one walk, but see that's where the disappointment comes in. Maybe i shouldn't say I am going for a second walk and if I do I do and if not then it doesn't matter. Why am i so hard on myself??

Thanks @Silenus 🙂 I did enjoy it, though I wouldn't quite go as far as 'fun'. But it was good to catch up with a previous support worker. We chatted in the pool and when she was giving me a lift home. She and I got on particularly well when she was supporting me for about six weeks at the end of last year. Social anxiety lurking around me with the rest of the group but as usual I put on a pretty good face. Part of doing these group activities is to challenge that social anxiety so it doesn't keep me so cooped up in the flat and living on the computer. The challenge today is to get myself to ukelele class in a couple of hours.