These are some really good ideas - thanks, TG! I love the idea of switching it up. For example, I've done some yoga, and discovered where I'm really tight and need to work on things - and it's HARD WORK, too!
Part of what's going on for me is just getting bored with incrementally upping my numbers or adding new movements to my workout routine. That word right there - "routine" - probably explains a lot! I look forward to trying out the (free for faculty) old gym on campus to try new stuff. I loved CrossFit, and it really helped me up my workouts, but so much of it is overhead work - which I try to avoid, because lifting my arm overhead with weight makes the AC joint rub in really uncomfortable ways. So I've avoided going there, too, even if the workout leaders provide alternate movements, because of (I'm aware) my own stupid feelings of inadequacy for not being able to do it the "right way."
Designing custom workouts is a fun idea - could use naming conventions as with yoga, only nerdy!
The online-friends-challenge still seems to be the most-inspiring idea. Tell me what to do, and I report in! Perhaps I could even put together a simple logging tool people could use, and whoever is interested could take part in it.
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Date: 2013-09-12 04:12 pm (UTC)Part of what's going on for me is just getting bored with incrementally upping my numbers or adding new movements to my workout routine. That word right there - "routine" - probably explains a lot! I look forward to trying out the (free for faculty) old gym on campus to try new stuff. I loved CrossFit, and it really helped me up my workouts, but so much of it is overhead work - which I try to avoid, because lifting my arm overhead with weight makes the AC joint rub in really uncomfortable ways. So I've avoided going there, too, even if the workout leaders provide alternate movements, because of (I'm aware) my own stupid feelings of inadequacy for not being able to do it the "right way."
Designing custom workouts is a fun idea - could use naming conventions as with yoga, only nerdy!
The online-friends-challenge still seems to be the most-inspiring idea. Tell me what to do, and I report in! Perhaps I could even put together a simple logging tool people could use, and whoever is interested could take part in it.
Hm! Thank you!