Thanks for sharing! Not sure if it was you that said you had ADHD, but be careful about tolerating the exercise by adding the learning stimulus to it. I think it's better to make the exercise the main target to enjoy it better. i.e. get a dog. Then daily walk becomes an activity you do for "someone else".
I admit I do prefer to walk to the grocery store in the mornings but the weather has been too cold and icy so I fell out of the habit over the winter, especially now that my daughter started day care. And finding time for it is of course hard. This method works well because it leverages time slots that lend themselves well to adding exercise without losing what I was already doing (meetings, testing my app).
Hopefully I can get back to the morning walks with the spring weather. Alas, my family is definitely not going to get a dog until the kids are older 😅
I don't like the idea of having to do exercise, and I can't mentally fit gym into my current schedule. I like seeing a number go up, so every day I make my "day" counter go up one tick, and then every time I've done my daily exercise routine I put another number in each category. It's so stupid but it works, and that's what's important. Bonus, I can do the exercises anytime, anywhere.
Now that I've quit my job as a teacher and moved to a different state, I am trying to manage having ADHD and working from home along with taking better care of my body. I lost 115 pounds since June and want to keep it off (MUCH less pain!) and I am motivated to lift weights because if I don't I will lose all of my muscle to the effects of rapid weight loss. However, it's hard. I can share what works for me, but that's not actually as important as underscoring this:
The only thing that will work for you is what works for you.
I think that's pretty much the golden rule for life. For you, exercising, cooking, etc. works better if you're motivated to do it for other people. For me, I get my butt to the gym because I hire a personal trainer, and I don't want to miss an appointment/disappoint someone/waste all that money. I dearly wish I could exercise without such an expenditure of money, but I can't, and needs must. (I don't do cardio at all except for dance class, which I have just barely begun.)
I am worried about working from home because my brain can so quickly go whirling off into "I spent three hours doing what??"-land, so I figure I'm going to need extra people to be accountable to. When I was a teacher, I had a very rigid schedule, so that part was easy, but I went from that to no schedule at all, and creating a work-life balance is going to be a challenge. Right now I'm starting with the rule After Dinner Is Family Time. I give myself 1-2 hours to get going in the morning, depending on showers/gym/weekends, and then I work. I'm going to need to find a rule for weekends, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Congrats on the move and getting to a point where you're in less pain! I've honestly been considering getting a personal trainer myself, to help with safe weight lifting, but haven't had a chance to fit it into my schedule -- I have recess duty at my son's school and I only just changed the day of the week, but I'm hoping to add that in soon.
I feel you on the rigidity of the teaching schedule being helpful... part of the reason I've had so much trouble exercising is that I've never needed to have a habit of it before -- I walked around my classroom all day!
After Dinner is Family Time is a big one for me too. I sometimes wish I could manage "screen free" but I like to read too much!
Speaking of ultramarathoners. There are the Tendai monks in Japan who participated in the Kaihogyo challenge. I revisited their story earlier this evening while cleaning out my vault. It was in an article by James Clear, titled: "If You Commit to Nothing, You’ll Be Distracted By Everything" https://jamesclear.com/mental-toughness-marathon-monks Just thought I'd share.
Thanks for sharing! Not sure if it was you that said you had ADHD, but be careful about tolerating the exercise by adding the learning stimulus to it. I think it's better to make the exercise the main target to enjoy it better. i.e. get a dog. Then daily walk becomes an activity you do for "someone else".
I don't have ADHD.
I admit I do prefer to walk to the grocery store in the mornings but the weather has been too cold and icy so I fell out of the habit over the winter, especially now that my daughter started day care. And finding time for it is of course hard. This method works well because it leverages time slots that lend themselves well to adding exercise without losing what I was already doing (meetings, testing my app).
Hopefully I can get back to the morning walks with the spring weather. Alas, my family is definitely not going to get a dog until the kids are older 😅
I don't like the idea of having to do exercise, and I can't mentally fit gym into my current schedule. I like seeing a number go up, so every day I make my "day" counter go up one tick, and then every time I've done my daily exercise routine I put another number in each category. It's so stupid but it works, and that's what's important. Bonus, I can do the exercises anytime, anywhere.
I'm so glad to hear you found a method that works!!
That was very inspiring and might help me overcome my trouble with exercising, too. Thanks alot for sharing!
Now that I've quit my job as a teacher and moved to a different state, I am trying to manage having ADHD and working from home along with taking better care of my body. I lost 115 pounds since June and want to keep it off (MUCH less pain!) and I am motivated to lift weights because if I don't I will lose all of my muscle to the effects of rapid weight loss. However, it's hard. I can share what works for me, but that's not actually as important as underscoring this:
The only thing that will work for you is what works for you.
I think that's pretty much the golden rule for life. For you, exercising, cooking, etc. works better if you're motivated to do it for other people. For me, I get my butt to the gym because I hire a personal trainer, and I don't want to miss an appointment/disappoint someone/waste all that money. I dearly wish I could exercise without such an expenditure of money, but I can't, and needs must. (I don't do cardio at all except for dance class, which I have just barely begun.)
I am worried about working from home because my brain can so quickly go whirling off into "I spent three hours doing what??"-land, so I figure I'm going to need extra people to be accountable to. When I was a teacher, I had a very rigid schedule, so that part was easy, but I went from that to no schedule at all, and creating a work-life balance is going to be a challenge. Right now I'm starting with the rule After Dinner Is Family Time. I give myself 1-2 hours to get going in the morning, depending on showers/gym/weekends, and then I work. I'm going to need to find a rule for weekends, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
Congrats on the move and getting to a point where you're in less pain! I've honestly been considering getting a personal trainer myself, to help with safe weight lifting, but haven't had a chance to fit it into my schedule -- I have recess duty at my son's school and I only just changed the day of the week, but I'm hoping to add that in soon.
I feel you on the rigidity of the teaching schedule being helpful... part of the reason I've had so much trouble exercising is that I've never needed to have a habit of it before -- I walked around my classroom all day!
After Dinner is Family Time is a big one for me too. I sometimes wish I could manage "screen free" but I like to read too much!
Speaking of ultramarathoners. There are the Tendai monks in Japan who participated in the Kaihogyo challenge. I revisited their story earlier this evening while cleaning out my vault. It was in an article by James Clear, titled: "If You Commit to Nothing, You’ll Be Distracted By Everything" https://jamesclear.com/mental-toughness-marathon-monks Just thought I'd share.