Okay, so I’m working out. At least, I’m trying to. For someone who has never worked out in her life ever, it’s really really hard, especially with my ‘issues’. I don’t like ‘stuff’ on my skin. I rarely wear makeup, I don’t care for lotion. Drool and dog licking is about the nastiest thing ever because it’s on my skin and it won’t come off. I also need the things I do to be enjoyable. I mean, what the crap is the point of doing something if you don’t enjoy doing it?
Yeah. Working out? It’s not fun at all, it makes me all sweaty sticky, it makes it hard to breathe and I really don’t like the metallic taste it gives me in my mouth. So I get to be bored, sore, tired, sticky, asthmatic and I get to feel like I’ve freaking been chewing on tin foil. Eugh!! ::sigh:: I hate it.
Netflix has instant dvd’s for working out and I have the Wii fit. The dvd I tried last Saturday wasn’t fun at all, but it did do a good job of making my midsection all sore. It was boring though, so I added some ‘dance party’ type ones to the player to see if those would be more fun. OMG, I think I’m going to be forced to admit that all the rhythm I have is in my head. I could NOT get my feet working in time. It was 30 minutes of me tripping over myself and by the end of it I was just so humiliated I wanted to cry. I just felt so awkward and dumb. My arms were easy to get working, but my feet.. oh hell no. They just decided to go whichever way they pleased, often in two different directions. I nearly threw myself out the window and DID fall down several times. I’m so glad I wasn’t in a class full of other people or it would have been worse than a freaking high school dance.
::grump:: Back to the boring dvd’s I guess.
I also used to really hate working out because I couldn’t stand to be sweaty (and hot – I used to be wayy too hot all the time, although that has decreased now). The one thing I could really do was swim, because I knew the water was disinfected and it got the sweat right off me, and then I only had to feel chloriney for as long as it took to rinse off in the shower! I dunno if that helps, but it might be one option. Good luck to you!
I just got the Wii’s “Active” from Electronic Arts. It comes with resistance bands and a leg strap for the nunchuck to go in so you can register leg movement.
I’ll let you know how it is.
Okay, as long time lurker I feel the need to speak 🙂
What are your goals with working out? Are there physical activities (‘exercise’ or other) that you enjoy doing? Could that enjoyable activity be modified or intensified to be exercise?
If you haven’t been working out in a while with the goal is general health, and you want to stick with DVDs in the comfort of your home, maybe look for some lower intensity options. Collage video.com has great reviews and may give you some ideas of videos to try.
Who says you have to start hard and intense – especially if this is your first go round with exercise. Find something you like to do, or can at least tolerate, and start with that.
Good luck!
(full disclaimer, fitness/wellness is my original background and my non-photography full time job 🙂 )
It’s not that I felt the need to start intensely, it’s really just that the ‘ab cruncher’ dvd was just plain boring. “Oh, I’m dong a sit up. Oh, here comes another one!” There really was nothing fun or exciting about it. So I decided to dry to dance party thing in hopes that it would be more fun (I mean, it LOOKS fun…) and it was only more humiliating because I have a foot coordination fail. 😛