Post Workout Surprises

POST WORKOUT: I am going to need to take this down a notch and really ease into it. I felt like my legs were going to fall off. Afraid of falling when I walked away from the elliptical.

The pool is not an option for another 5 weeks. The low resistance and not putting the pressure of my weight on my body, helps me and I can swim like a fish for 45 min easily.

Sent my doc an email & new trainer I haven't done an assessment with yet, a text. Reaching out. Asking for help. This is humbling. Very humbling. The funny thing is, I really feel a solid commitment in place, even with switching out one action plan to another that I don't know what that looks like yet.

One good friend rattled off some low-impact routines. Possibilities. like chair cardio, yoga. Other stuff.

Grateful for her. She has been incorporating movement since she was in her 20s. She's 63 now. An inspiration for sure.

Walking---it hurts at this point in about 5 min.

I guess I'm not really looking for feedback...but encouragement. And inspiration only instead. Thanks, friends.

I WANT this and will DO it. I've started doing IT. It's just I am pivoting to meet myself where I'm at.

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RE: my beautiful new trainer & some solid gentle advice

They gave me great advice. Not what I want to hear exactly, as I am eager to dive in (without the pool as an option for another 5-7 weeks). They told me I'll need to REALLY take it down, to turn the volume down.

They said with it being a short time since a major surgery, I need to take it easy. So the focus will be on gentle movements and possibly the recumbent bike for 5 min only.

My God in my gut and heart and intuition know she is right. I can be very impatient. I want everything know, including results of having more energy and losing my excessive weight.

I haven't even had a full assessment with my trainer yet. They use neuroscience and is much more knowledgeable than ANY trainer person I've worked with, even based merely on our initial conversation. They are also adept at massage therapy and sacral cranial work. They have a full gym--and that's where I'll go. I want to go every 3-4 weeks. I bought a package and they gave me a great deal.

Will be WORTH EVERY PENNY!

Gentle and slow. I've lived a generally sedentary lifestyle for years besides my sporadic swimming. Now is the time to start. Not the start I had in mind but what is best for my body at this stage. I want to honor God's temple. I'll work up to the soccer league, volleyball, Zumba and other fun forms of exercise I can throw into the mix.

Wait for next year, this time! It will be such a miracle of how far I've come. I've made a COMMITMENT.

No if, ands or buts about it.

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