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kleinbl00  ·  674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: June 15, 2022

Everyone's health is garbage right now. Every other pediatrics call to the clinic: "My kid is sick all the time and it's not corona!" "that's because it's every illness all at once attacking your kid's immune system because we're all stressed out and dealing with corona!"

It is genuinely demotivating. My yoga instructor flat-out said "you need to acknowledge that 'running' is a part of your life that's over." Nonetheless I ran three times last week.

You have to be patient with yourself and acknowledge that any movement is better than no movement, and that if you get out of the house to so much as loop around the block, that's one loop around the block you wouldn't have made otherwise. You have to recognize that your body is dealing with special circumstances and that you need to grade on a curve. You're going to be tempted to judge yourself against yourself at your best. What you need to do is judge yourself against yourself last week, and acknowledge that there will be steps backward due to forces entirely beyond your control.