TIME TO GET RRRIIIIIIIPPED!!!!! - the exercise thread

I am also north, nearer to maple grove. Any more accurate than that and i'd prefer a biking thread in top serket, for keeping my address of the main internet reasons.

 

I officially start Pt tomorrow for a problem that has been on going since I was in my teens. Eval was last week. Step one is posture training and relaxation therapies to get my damn muscles to let go of the tension so things can start moving back into place the way they're supposed to be, step two is strengthening back and core muscles to keep it there.

 

Agreed. I had two years of physical therapy and it was very good for me. The physical therapist was also really nice and that helped a lot.

 

o7 Hopefully this will address symptoms,but my gp seemed dismissive about really trying to investigate underlying cause. I've had weird shit going on with body since I was 15 or 16. Feels like my ribs get set out of place. Used to be the lower two on either side up until I had my first kid, and then it turned into the upper ones right under my shoulder blades. A lot of my joints will click to- not just pop but just sort of click when moving. But since I've never had any sort of trauma or accident he didn't really seem to take it seriously :/ I'm hoping I can work on getting it documented through the pt doc then come back to the gp and get him to give it more consideration, because I need to fix to cause, not treat the symptoms.

 

wheezes. i just got back in from an ~two mile walk that i took for the first time since i got a job. i had initially started walking a couple times a week just to get to the point that i could be on my feet long enough to work, and then things petered off after that because adjusting to retail was so draining i couldn't do it anymore.

some stuff has sort of come together and made me... idk. fed up with how i am, right now. i don't like how i feel. i don't like how i look. and they just upped my SSRI so i know if i don't do SOMETHING it's only going to get worse.

i've never actually openly discussed this anywhere before. it's nerve-wracking just to type this shit. ;;

 

I've been feeling the same way. Employment tends to get in the way of physical fitness. On the up-side I got lights for my bike and took it around the lake again after work last night.

 

Picked up a yoga mat and a bunch of Tai Chi vids on Amazon Prime, lessee how this goes

 

I first misread that as yogurt and chai latte...

 

Also awesome

 

is this where we go to talk about exercise
is this where I go to ask for help motivating and getting exercise to happen
because I mean part of the problem is that I have chronic fatigue and all exercise exhausts me so much that I have to rest for up to two days afterwards but
there's gotta be something I can do, right? like....some kind of exercise I can make happen that won't kill me?

 

hmmm. okay. might have to get something for the 'light strength training' part because I'm pretty sure the closest thing we have to 'light' is like. a twenty pound weight. stretching I can do, though! goes off to look up stretches.
oh and how long would you recommend rest periods be? also, is there any type of running/jogging I could do with this? like...I don't know. a few minutes of jogging or something? or would that be too much? (I have literally no idea how much is too much I'm just kind of used to exercising for like half an hour to an hour and then being dead for two days or more. which is. why I gave up on it. the exercise was wearing me down way more than I felt it should.)

 

Don't underestimate plain ol' walking, either. Work up to walking longer/farther or the same distance with weights in a backpack or something.

 

okay, got it.
I will take it easy, then! and get a 2lb weight. and maybe walk my dog for a v short walk some days?
aaaah, I see. yeah I just have chronic fatigue so like. I don't get pain or anything? but if I want to do anything other than sleep for two days after exercise, then I'm. better off just not exercising, at least with the way I do it, which is the way my dad does it, and he's always all about pushing your limits and doing ALL the things AS HARD AS YOU CAN and doesn't seem to comprehend 'chronic fatigue'. and it's also really annoying when I finally get to walking my dog or something and then chronic fatigue is like 'hey. hey buddy. bet u thought u could walk for twenty minutes today. well it's been five and boy do I have news for you :)'.
but doing a few minutes in the morning, and then some stretches later in the day, and then something else later in the evening sounds like a p good plan! and hopefully not cramming all the things into one hour will make me be less exhausted the days after.

duly noted! though I do know walking can be tiring as well--I used to try and walk my dog twenty minutes (in one direction. I never really comprehended that 'twenty minutes each way' = forty minutes.) every day because I thought that would be 'easier' and whoo boy. I'd do it, all right, but at the end I'd be so exhausted I'd not have the capability to walk home. and then I'd just sit there in the dirt crying because my mom wouldn't come get me and I was too tired to walk back. and so what should've been a relatively short walk turned into three hours of sobbing in the dirt.

 

I have one of those pedometer watch thingies and it beeps at you when you don't move for an hour or more. I've been known to pace my hallway with a book or my phone to make it happy. It only takes like, 100 steps to make it not cranky but it's still getting me moving.

WRT stretching if you have Amazon Prime on a game console or computer or etc they have yoga and Tai Chi videos out the wazoo and I saw ones that were specifically for chronic pain/fatigue. They're definitely low-impact.

 

I have Amazon Prime on my computer!! I will check out the Tai Chi ones for chronic fatigue, that sounds really good. and maybe I'll look into the pedometer watch thingie, I could use that. I have a tendency to just. sit. for hours.

 

Husband has Strong Feelings about Tai Chi vs Yoga because yoga is "overenthusiastic stretching" and Tai Chi is an actual martial art slowed down 500x. (He's a martial arts snob. He also has Strong Feelings about MMA and I love going to sports bars on Fight Nights because he gets so indignant because they're doing it stupid. Not "wrong" per se, but stupid.)

Also apparently if you do Tai Chi enough you gain the muscle memory to make speeding back up easy in a defensive situation because the motion is natural. We'll see :D