Update - me and the Aged P.

[lexin]

After exercise you're supposed to feel buzzy and 'up'. Not so in my case, I feel as if I've been smacked over the head with something hard. A tree, possibly. Yes, I went swimming again, not that swimming once a week is going to do anything much for my fitness levels. I suppose it's better than not going at all, though.

There is no other news. Mr Smelly-Opposite has done nothing at all with his flat – not even put locks on the door.

Work continues mildly dull – we have an office move coming up in two weeks in which I move from the Ivory Tower to the Dull Grey Tower. Not looking forward to that, as it's in a part of the city I don't like, and not even the interesting part of that. Too far from the shops, basically, and another ten minutes onto my commute. So, I don't want to go, basically.

Oh, and the Aged P. rang last night, worrying because she lost a filling in a tooth, one of the few she has left, and is now too disabled to get into the dentists – they have an annoying step and no hand holds. There's not much help I can offer, as I can't make her any less disabled. I must suggest she talks to her doctor about it, they might know of a dental school she could go to – but that won't help with the travelling, which she's not very good at, either. It's a problem.

Comments

[katesnotes]

I think that the buzzy 'up' feeling you are supposed to get after exercise is a complete myth. I bet only people who are really fit in the first place get it. I exercise regularly and your description about being hit over the head with a tree is an excellent description of how I feel after. I had to give up taking lunchtime classes because it just wiped me out for the entire afternoon.
Sorry for random commenting from an habitual lurker but that hit by a tree thing really rang a bell for me.

[lexin]

Lurk no more, I love comments!

I hate that feeling you get after exercise - it really is supposed to make you feel better and I left the swimming baths practically dragging my knuckles on the ground I was so tired. I really don't think I could cope with any lunchtime exercise class which meant I was on my feet - swimming is my one and only sop to the system.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

I have exactly the same problem with exercise. It makes me feel bad. If I do too much of it (which at my current level of fitness = any at all) it makes me ill and I have to spend three days recovering. How can this possibly be good for me? I don't know!

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I think all this stuff about exercise is a lie. It only helps your weight and fitness if you do it more than three times a week, and who's got the spare time for that?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

That's true. And in fact when I was super-fit, in my 30s, and did exercise four times a week and walked everywhere, I *still* felt awful immediately afterwards. I never felt better for it.

[gloria1.livejournal.com]

When*ever* I did any sort of so-called 'vigorous exercise' it would simply make me feel hot and faint and craving a bag of chips. Doing more of it just made those feelings stronger.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

I did end up after swimming (and on the way to the office) having a very large cappucino with three sugars in it.

"Shurely shome mishtake"?

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Exercise makes me feel content on a meta level, like after I successfully did an unpleasant phone call, or cleaned the fridge. It's not in the doing for me, but in the knowing I have done. And I have to do it anyway, because otherwise my back will give me hell again.

I suspect the famous endorphin reactions come way beyond where I'm willing to go with exercising.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

You're probably right. I know after swimming this morning I was so exhausted leaving the baths that my knuckles were practically dragging on the ground.

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Going once a week is definitely something. For a couple of months, I only had time to go to the gym once a week, on Sunday afternoons, so that just became my Sunday afternoon ritual.

[smirra.livejournal.com]

I agree. In my expereince swimming is not good for feeling fresh and up. For me it's a bother for the cardiovascular system (as is even more to have a sauna- I hate it). It's nice to relax in the water after a work day but it makes me tired (even a shower does that to me). Short regeular exercises are the best thing to stay fit I think, like doing many ways walking or by bike.
Leaving the city (where I had to walk much more) and now living in the country side and just getting in and out of a car did bad things to the extend of fitniss I had (I'm not saying that it was *that* much, but still).

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Do you know of anything that's better? For me, swimming is bad, but everything else is worse! Not to mention that I can't be doing with putting any extra strain on my knees.

[smirra.livejournal.com]

So the bike isn't useful then.
From my experience was doing more walking ways useful. Most days I'm unhappy with the low amount of walking exercise and I try to fit in atleast a short quick walk. It is the best exercise I can handle (having a problem with my knees too).
Can you do maybe one bus stop walking instead of going by bus/underground to or from work?
Over here are also open more small fitness studios with a medical orientation (due to the fact that health service is paying partially for them, so not much the "my arse is smaller than yours"-place). I did that because I had problems with the backbone. I did like some of the machines but it didn't do enough on my fitness level doing that once a week. I think small things every day are more useful even if they are *very* small.
I'm sorry if I cannot give a better advice.