Limited mobility | Unlimited stories: Starting a fitness experiment...

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As this is what's on my mind recently, I decided to share. After this post I wrote 2 months ago called "How to exercise if one foot can't be used?" I'm still not happy with my fitness regime. It's starting to bother me as I know I would feel more fit with a few pounds less, which would also mean less weight on my feet, and I could use some bigger long capacity as well, to get a general feeling of being fit.

But the challenge is huge and I still don't have more answers than 2 months ago.
The 'Fit20' thing I wrote about is starting to get boring, and even though rationally I know I shouldn't care too much, as for now this is the only thing I can do, the heart needs to be in it as well, or you start to slack easily - which helps no-one.

Plus, it costs a pretty dime.

Doing some home exercises with Kettlebells sounds fun in theory, but motivation is lacking, mostly because I have no idea if I'm doing it at max efficiency - for some things you really need the feedback from a professional trainer.

Luckily, there's an opportunity these days to 'hack' all kinds of things, and one of them might be a solution to my problem: a fitness subscription that lets me try out classes at as many fitness clubs or boutique yoga spaces as I want. You subscribe each day or week what class you want to join, and voila: you show up and join the class.

Which means: low level of commitment at first, max room for experimentation, and the freedom to skip classes without guilt or loss of money when I have one of my famous Recovery Days.

Ding Ding Ding!

I'm probably going to subscribe to this magnificent idea coming week, so finding out what budget friendly gym gear/clothing I can buy to start off well but without breaking the bank - and see what suits me.

I even found a class of 'Chair Yoga', for those that can't stand long!
(Yes, that's yoga while sitting on a chair)

Other classes I'm thinking of taking: different kinds of yoga (anxious about the standing parts and the parts where you need to lunge/stand on your toes), pilates (I see no real problems here for me), swimming (yes, despite my reservations about swimming. I'm going to try to find an hour where I can do some swimming, maybe even aquarobics to get my heart pumping), barre (I used to do ballet, this is a sort of stretching based on danse poses? Not sure), and maybe some general fitness exercises in 'open' fitness rooms where I can row or bicycle, again to get that heart pumping and improve my general level of fitness.

Just curious to see how it will work, even going to and from the locations where I'll do sports will add to my daily 'steps', so it might be a heavy journey with lots and lots of setbacks. But I'm willing to try for at least 2 months to find out what works. I've decided beforehand that this experimentation comes first, which means I'll possibly skip other meetings or outings if that's what's needed to recover from any class I took or to prepare for a class I want to take.

Anyway, I'm just curious, what kinds of sports or fitness activities do you do? Are you physically healthy or are you like me, and find staying fit a challenge?

It's easy to write about this stuff, but I know beforehand this will be an emotional journey full of frustrations about my limitations - I 'only' have had to deal with pain for four years now, and it still surprises me how easily I can overcharge my own body. Looking at the list of classes I want to try out I start to get both excited and anxious, as I know I often go too fast too soon and will really have to set limits on what I'll do in week 1, week 2, week 3... And so on.

Ah, I'll learn tomorrow. Even shopping for yoga pants might cost me a day of recovery. Maybe I'll use that recovery day to collect the fitness schedule... Knowing I do want to prevent recovery days as much as possible ;-)

Limited mobility | Unlimited stories: Starting a fitness experimentation adventure

Anyway, I'm just curious, what kinds of sports or fitness activities do you do? Are you physically healthy or are you like me, and find staying fit a challenge?

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