My Exercise, My Weakness

[jfargo]

My arms are sore, but it's a good hurt

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[labelleizzy]

i love watching and feeling the changes. I've been seriously working out for around 3 years now: 6 months "prehab" before ACL replacement surgery, and then I have kept going.

I push the goals out and out but still marvel at my successes: this geekgirl body can do what now? =) It is a happiness and an investment in my eldering.

[jfargo]

I feel ridiculous with how doing barely anything tires me out. I also feel proud that I'm doing anything at all. I feel ridiculous about how proud I feel with the small improvements I've made.

But hey, pride is there, and I'm absolutely okay with being ridiculous. In fact, I pride myself on that too.

One of the reasons I'm doing it is because I want to be around as long as possible for my daughter. I have to lose some weight and put on some muscle to (theoretically) up that amount of time.

Or at the very least I can show her the benefits of being fit, once I find them myself.

i wish you joyful movement.

[labelleizzy]

I find it most productive to focus on building muscle, increasing balance, strength, and functionality. I also tried using a paid weight loss program many years ago and gained every thing back , actually gained double what I'd lost! Famine setpoints are simply not easy to circumvent, no matter what you do.

I do *look* like I've "lost weight" because muscle takes up less space than fat. And I've lost a measurable amount of fat.

Also: some exercises help you bulk up and get stronger, and others make your muscles lean and strong. Think about exploring a wide variety of movement types so you can figure out what you enjoy and what you want to stick with for awhile.

Turns out that my sport is DANCE. But I never danced before my 20's, so I didn't know how much I loves it till then.

Re: i wish you joyful movement.

[jfargo]

Thank you; I appreciate your help.

The exercises I'm doing now are intended to bulk up (mostly). One of the interesting things of being a large (fat) guy is that people have always expected me to be strong. I never really have been and I want that to change, so I'm trying to bulk up, every-so-slowly.

I've been wanting to learn how to dance but always feel so uncoordinated. I know that, like everything else, it takes practice; I just hate feeling like I have two left feet.

[kmg_365]

I've been having a similar affair with that damsel known as exercise, and we celebrated our one-year anniversary last December. When I told my former manager about my relationship six months into it he told me that it will become a part of my lifestyle. And it has.

I have reached a point now where I have plateaued from a weight-loss perspective and, to be honest, regardless of what Wii Fit and Samsung's S Health might think, I do not need to lose any more weight. So the exercise is primarily maintenance now. I did something to my shoulder earlier in the year so I haven't been able to do all of my weight exercises and I actually miss doing them.

And just so you know, if you continue with progressions it will always hurt a little, but it is a good kind of hurt. :-)

[hypnagogie]

Is this some kind of standard program you're using, or did you make it up yourself?

[jfargo]

I'm using the basics of Convict Conditioning with a few things thrown in and a few things taken out. They have a nice progression to them that allows me to start out with my "I have zero muscle" self and get me to a higher level, even if it's not the "one-armed push-ups" level.

[hypnagogie]

Neat, I'm going to look at it. I have the same problem and it's been hard for me to find a starting place.

[jfargo]

Convict Conditioning