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So I cleaned the upstairs "fitness room," where the grandsons and I had slept during their just-ended trip to the east coast, brought the small amount of equipment I have back upstairs, and restarted my daily fitness routine.
There's not much to it, to begin with, and after more than a month's layoff, due to illness and the out-of-town company being here, it's now reduced to even less. Fewer reps, less weight, etc. No longer an "old man's workout," it's more like a "feeble old man's workout."
But based on many years of experience, and a certain knowledge of self, I knew that this would be the best way. So I fired up the computer, pulled up my last routine, and basically reduced the reps to just 10 for each exercise.
My plan, in the days ahead, is to add 2 reps per day to each exercise until I reach the 30 or 40 that I had been doing. And if, as I get closer to that final number, I begin to feel that "it's too much too soon," I'll just hold, for a day or two, at whatever number I've reached by then.
With all that's been going on, I honestly considered just saying to hell with it and hanging up the gloves. But by the end of it, as light as it intentionally is, I actually felt a little of that seratonin boost that's associated with a decent workout.
So maybe this will turn out to be a piece of what I need to cope with the awful depression and anxiety that's been dogging me for the past several days.
I know that I desperately need something, actually a number of things, and if this turns out to be one of them then I'll do my best to keep it up...
LPK
@Dreamwidth
7.29.2017
There's not much to it, to begin with, and after more than a month's layoff, due to illness and the out-of-town company being here, it's now reduced to even less. Fewer reps, less weight, etc. No longer an "old man's workout," it's more like a "feeble old man's workout."
But based on many years of experience, and a certain knowledge of self, I knew that this would be the best way. So I fired up the computer, pulled up my last routine, and basically reduced the reps to just 10 for each exercise.
My plan, in the days ahead, is to add 2 reps per day to each exercise until I reach the 30 or 40 that I had been doing. And if, as I get closer to that final number, I begin to feel that "it's too much too soon," I'll just hold, for a day or two, at whatever number I've reached by then.
With all that's been going on, I honestly considered just saying to hell with it and hanging up the gloves. But by the end of it, as light as it intentionally is, I actually felt a little of that seratonin boost that's associated with a decent workout.
So maybe this will turn out to be a piece of what I need to cope with the awful depression and anxiety that's been dogging me for the past several days.
I know that I desperately need something, actually a number of things, and if this turns out to be one of them then I'll do my best to keep it up...
LPK
@Dreamwidth
7.29.2017
