My body complication is mostly not body mechanics, but much more stamina and lungs, alas, which makes physical activity iffy at the best of times, especially since my stamina tends to drop out suddenly. Which makes 'and how am I getting home from this thing safely?' a non-trivial problem.
(This is one of the problems of living alone people don't talk about much - there's a lot of stuff I'd be more willing to push if I lived with someone and had a back up of 'I'll probably be fine, but I'm going out for a walk and if I misjudge, can you come pick me up?'. But I don't, so.)
I swim for my exercise because it's the one thing I've found I'll keep up with (I enjoy it as an activity, especially now waterproof MP3 players exist and I can listen to podcasts while I do my laps), I can modify my exertion stroke by stroke if I want, and because 'how much energy do I need to save to shower, change, and go to work' is a (more or less) constant I can plan for.
Though even then it sometimes gets tricky. (I swam before work this morning, and walked across campus at 9 to show someone some things, and even though it's gorgeous out there and not hot, my body was very much at 'You Did A Thing. Maybe Too Much Thing' for a couple of hours after.)
Anyway, it makes group class exercise things a thing that I could likely manage if I didn't have to leave the house to go to work, (and have to save energy/cope for that) but I do, so.
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Date: 2018-06-22 04:37 pm (UTC)(This is one of the problems of living alone people don't talk about much - there's a lot of stuff I'd be more willing to push if I lived with someone and had a back up of 'I'll probably be fine, but I'm going out for a walk and if I misjudge, can you come pick me up?'. But I don't, so.)
I swim for my exercise because it's the one thing I've found I'll keep up with (I enjoy it as an activity, especially now waterproof MP3 players exist and I can listen to podcasts while I do my laps), I can modify my exertion stroke by stroke if I want, and because 'how much energy do I need to save to shower, change, and go to work' is a (more or less) constant I can plan for.
Though even then it sometimes gets tricky. (I swam before work this morning, and walked across campus at 9 to show someone some things, and even though it's gorgeous out there and not hot, my body was very much at 'You Did A Thing. Maybe Too Much Thing' for a couple of hours after.)
Anyway, it makes group class exercise things a thing that I could likely manage if I didn't have to leave the house to go to work, (and have to save energy/cope for that) but I do, so.