Probably my first and only post on this channel but who knows...
Recently I've discovered something. It's something I knew in theory and something we all probably know but experiencing it is another thing entirely.
We all know excersise is supposed to be good for us. Feel more energetic, burns fat, more active blah blah blah but I have always hated the gym!
Ever heard of the term "go hard or go home"? It means do an absolute beast of a workout or not at all.
Well what happens when you go all out? Especially after very little activity?
DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle soreness)
Now some people thrive on DOMS. They love it. Me? No. Maybe I'm wimp or something.
Isn't exercise supposed to make you feel good? Well DOMS sucks, so why would I want to keep that up?
I've done high intensity stuff before like metafit, circuit training, boxercise, tabata and sometimes I enjoyed it. But I just couldn't keep it up.
Recently I've been doing a very small workout 5 days a week:
10 sit ups
10 crunches
10 single leg squats
10 push ups
Then a chest stretch.
And i set an alarm for when to do them.
I know what you're probably thinking. You call that a workout?! That's easy!
Well yeh it's not too hard, but that's not the point.
If you look at the alarm name it simply says "Stop!"
Why? Well the point was to get me out of bed or stop watching TV or whatever I was doing at that time. To test building habbits, kind of like doing your teeth in the morning.
So I've done this every day Monday to Friday for 3 weeks now and it's getting to the point where I do it automatically. Before, it was the alarm that made me snap out of whatever I was doing. But now I actually start the workout before the alarm goes off. I still have the alarm on, but my body clock is starting to take over.
What's evwn more strange is I've started to use the gym more. Do I enjoy it? No, not really but like my home workout, it's short and not very intense.
Yet I feel alot fitter than 3 weeks ago from the combination of the two.
I think this way is better for your mental state of mind. Like I mentioned before, I've done metafit and the likes and I could hardly walk back to the car eaxh time. I had to sit down before leaving to not throw up and felt dizzy and sick.
"Yeh but you feel great afterwards right"?
Err... no actually I didn't. You would think after 10 plus intense sessions I'd feel a bit better.
Nope.
So I've decided to take it easy and do this very small, short workout but do it consitantly.
So far I feel better both physically and mentally.
To anyone reading this, I urge you to try what I'm doing. Not neccessarilly the same but the same principle.
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Exercise is something I know is super good for the body but always end up losing sight of and fading in disciple over.
That exercise routine almost reminds me of Saitama’s routine from the manga One Punch that helped him break his limiter: 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, 100 kilometers in running lol
For me personally, I always have trouble hitting that sweet spot of weight load and soreness. Sometimes I don’t do enough out of fear of too much soreness and don’t feel like I’ve pushed myself enough or the other situation is I obsess over pushing myself enough and getting too sore. Sometimes there’s a middle ground where I arrive at the perfect amount where the weight load doesn’t feel too much and the soreness actually feels good because it isn’t too little or too much. Maybe it’s an endorphin thing, perhaps.