• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    NO

    RIGHT NOW

    RIGHT THIS SECOND

    TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE

    STAND UP AND STRETCH

    TOUCH THE FLOOR, THEN THE CEILING

    DO IT AGAIN, AT LEAST 10 TIMES

    ONE DAY YOU WILL WAKE UP AND DISCOVER YOUR BODY IS INCAPABLE OF THIS AND IT WILL DESTROY YOU MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY. THE DESTRUCTION YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW CAN ALWAYS FEEL WORSE, AND IT WILL BE INFINITELY SO IF A SEDENTARY LIFE DISABLES YOU

    SO STAND THE FUCK UP AND DO THOSE FUCKING SQUATS

    WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t know what inspired you to write this, but thank you. It has been over a year and a half since I’ve exercised in any real capacity. Todays plan was to do it today. As the day progressed it kept getting easier and easier to justify doing it tomorrow.

      After reading this post it motivated me to push through the excuses and get on the stationary cycle. Thank you.

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        2 years ago

        fr fam, it’s fear >_>;

        and the agony of lived experience

        This year was a close call for me. I’m only JUST BARELY managing to get my life back on track.

        It is precisely that alarm going off that got me to take the steps I’ve been needing to take.

        This is the message I needed to receive years ago so when I see an opportunity to echo it, I do.

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      2 years ago

      Started running and doing kettlebell workouts on days interchangeably about a week ago because I’m broke. I’m slowly upping the amount of distance I’m running and the length of my excercises.

      I’ve been exhausted for about a week, but I feel so much more active and confident.

      Get your fuckin asses moving. >:(

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    2 years ago

    If you’re on the edge right now - do it! Taking care of my body and diet was the best decision of my life.

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    I have major depression. I’ve learned to hack it in various ways by, not exactly lying, but by making logical arguments that appeal to it.

    I do 4 high intensity, 2 hour workouts a week like clockwork, just by reminding myself that I have a significant family history of sudden cardiac deaths, and that my greatest hope for escape from the pain of life, because I’m too much of a coward to do it directly, is to simply make my heart go boom.

    Every workout is a lottery ticket to my problems being over! And bonus points, if I die doing cardio, my death wasn’t embarrassing! “Look at him, dying on the stair machine, what a go getter!”

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    2 years ago

    This is why I always exercise first thing. If you wait until you “have time” later, it will never happen.

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      2 years ago

      Yeeep. Every morning, I eat a light snack and just go. Don’t even bother waiting.

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    2 years ago

    Disregard sleep, run 4k at midnight. Gains for the gains god, quads for the quad throne. 💪😎💪

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    I took up climbing like 2 years ago and it has been excellent for my fitness and demolishing depression. And it’s super fun.