All that I can do is lay down for the day
Hyperbole or actually a situation where you have to set up camp in your bed with snacks and a drink at your bedside because if you don’t, you’re probably not gonna be able to get up and meet your basic needs until your body is screaming out for you to get something into you?
There’s a big difference between “I’m too tired to cook tonight, I’m gonna order pizza” and “I would not be able to cook food tonight unless someone was holding a gun to my head.”
Those people probably have stronger leg muscles and a higher VO2 max than you. Endurance is something that’s difficult to build but by no means impossible to. It’s also possible that you’re underfueling or dehydrated and need more carbs or water.
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Bomboclaat, let’s not get it twisted, shotta
It gets easier as you exercise more. A one hour walk is a heavy load if you’re very sedentary. Gotta remember what motivates you and just keep at it every day!
I’ve always questioned this for the longest time until I’ve finally started to care about my physical health:
It has to do with their body’s overall fitness. There’s a lot more to fitness than BMI. Something like having stronger leg muscles or a stronger heart or a larger lung capacity or being more flexible effects every single physical motion, meaning the total sum of physical motion taken in those 8 hours is far less taxing on their bodies than someone who is less fit. This obviously also translates over to the actual exercise.
When I started out on my treadmill, I could barely walk for half a mile even holding on to the handrails. Now, I could jog an entire mile without breaking a sweat (cheating with cold climate lmao). Everything has a cumulative effect even down to how I physically move my legs. When I started out, I remember having lots of toe pain because I bruised my toes and it was because I more or less didn’t truly know how to jog. There was so much of “this part of my body hurts because I didn’t know what the fuck I was doing,” which adds up as well. I didn’t know that stretches serve a far more important role than showing off to people about how you could bend a certain part of your body a certain way.
The honest truth is that I thoroughly hated exercising for at least the first year or so and it was only through the sheer tiredness of having an unfit body for the vast majority of my life that I was able to power my way through to the point where exercising is less of a chore because my body has reached a point of fitness. After all this, I still wouldn’t say that I genuinely enjoy it, but there are good days where I feel great after exercising and there are days where I go, “Yep, still a fucking chore to do. Why can’t I just drink a glass tube of nanomachines that repair my body while I sit on my ass all day like before?” You take the good with the bad.
They’ve made a habit of being active, most likely. And they have probably found a way to turn their workout into something enjoyable and fulfilling in its own right, rather than a chore to be accomplished.
For me, consistently going to the (bouldering) gym requires having a group of friends that I look forward to hanging out with in addition to the staying active part.
Ain’t that true. I used to boulder a lot before COVID, but after lockdown ended everyone in my group had moved on and it was really hard to find the motivation to go anymore.
I run now. Easier to do solo
Run clubs are a thing around here, too. I have no idea how people make that a social activity, though, because my ass cannot talk while jogging.
My wife ran cross country for years and any time we’d run together she’d want to chat while I was gasping for my life.
From my understanding the main socialising happens at a cafe afterwards. Recently read a book with the line “I hate people who can run and talk at the same time”
there’s a way to control your breathing under mild exertions where you stay within your breath, if that makes sense. if you’re breathing every stride that’s probably overkill for jogging unless some other health thing is going on like asthma or allergies. try slowing it down so you take several steps per breath
that’s not really “proper” breathing for running really hard, but if you’re breathing “wrong” for a jog as it is that might give you better respiration to give your lungs more time on each breath.
I have no doubt you are correct, but lord willing I shall never jog again.
me too lolbut any time you breathe hard and aren’t at the physical limit, you can try slowing it down.
My climbing buddy moved away and I haven’t gone in like 3 months. I joined a soccer league and tbh it’s less of a toxic culture than what my gym was providing lol
Wow. Your gym had a toxic culture? What was going on? That is super alien to me, normally I find gyms to be super chill
Very cliquey, a lot of superiority complexes, like your value was determined on what grades you can climb.
Yeah that sucks.
It’s a mix of physical conditioning and mental well-being. Diet and weather can also contribute. Also, if you don’t like an hour long walk it’s going to make it even more difficult.
I struggle with this too sometimes. It’s worst during the winter, and I notice that my energy plummets if I stay inside and don’t get that vitamin D. Even going outside for 30 minutes during a cloudy day helps.
Vitamin b12 (only take in the morning) and vitamin D3 sups help. Avoid excess sugar.
In addition, it really depends on the job. I couldn’t do shit after working food service, but I had no problem working out when I did an office job.
Spoon theory of mental health,
You gotta spend spoons to exert energy and do things, sor some people they have fewer spoons to use, others it costs more spoons to do each thing, some people have a fuckload of spoons AND they don’t spend many on each task, bastards
Also capitalism especially destroyes everyone that isn’t the ideal ablebodied white mentally healthy man, and even then…
I can only speak to my experience but I didn’t really start trying to do any consistent cardio until my mid 20s, and I had absolutely no stamina when I started - I could barely jog around the block without wanting to hurl. it took me time, repetition and stubbornness to build up any real stamina/capacity. and even then I had to “trick” myself using the power of negative thinking*
*ebook in the works
my time on this planet is limited and i make use of my youth as much as i can. sure there are plenty of days where i drag myself to even take a shower. but basically the only thing that keeps me going is the fomo :)
Fomo?
fear of missing out
about what particularly?
generally everything: everything takes energy and if i settle down my health deteriorates.
it’s not even about sports but also about finding the energy to go out and stuff :)
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Just got a build yourself up to it you’ll get more energy unless you like
in that you’ll just lose all your energy so it’s best never to move more than you needSometimes it’s stimulants
I took a look at some pre-workout stuff and it’s all basically caffeine and b-vitamins
Never ran farther than when I was taking Adderall
Lol. I was undiagnosed all through college and I used to just Gump it and and run nonstop to try and get away from racing thoughts. Now that I’m medicated I’m trying to re-engage with that practice, but in a healthy way. Which now is hiking and looking at birds.
Two wolves inside you, etc.
Mental weakness
