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In other words, now I start mine – what I think is last week on the challenge I got it 1 mars. 31 days with some form of exercise, which in my case landed in yoga. I've wanted to do it for so long, but never got me for. Not to the extent that I plan to practice yoga three times a week and then do it every day. It has held a couple, three weeks – not more.
But as I said where; now I'm in the last week – and I have also acquired a yoga mat and two yoga blocks (I constantly forget what it's called). And I know I'm nagging about this, but I am so incredibly happy and grateful that I decided to go into it the most basic of basic levels, to make it easier for myself. I know myself and know that if it gets too hard, I'm shitting on it. And this obviously came at just the right time, because I'm still actually doing it, partly actually think it's a little fun. Fun enough to get a yoga mat – and if I have acquired a yoga mat, I will continue to learn later because it should have been worth the money.
And throw money away in the lake, I have absolutely no desire for that. 🙂
So – three weeks with yoga, to date. What has actually happened?
To begin with but I'm impressed that I'm actually doing this. Every day. One day I was about to forget it, but got the memory back in time before I went to bed. Only that in itself is great for being me. To actually implement what I set out to do.
Then there is like this; I never train. The term and the word exercise is one of the ugliest swear words I know. YUK! The older I get, the less I like it. When I was younger, I could at least at times get the impression that I wanted to train, but now it is quite enough to go with the dog.
But with rising age (I filled 45 last week) it is not the case that the body becomes smoother and easier to handle if you do not use it. I have sickness compensation, so I'm home all day. The computer contributes to pastimes, and the sewing machine with creation. Neither benefits my body very much, and believe me – I'm more than fully aware of that. I am stiff and inflexible like a dead whale on dry land. I have had neck and shoulder problems since I was a teenager. Knees and toes (!) has started to falter over the years and has reached its peak the last two, three years or so.
I would like to return to being as agile as I was in my younger teens. In high school, I took dance lessons in jazz, bug and some basic course in Latin. At that time I could go down in the splits without any problems, but above all I was mobile. It's not a lot of fun to wake up on a beautiful day maybe 30 years later and discover that without noticing it has become old in that way that it creaks in the joints and you would need a walker to get out of bed.
I'll probably come never to be quite so agile again – and I can actually live with that. It is not necessary to go down in splits, can I think. But it would be nice to feel more mobile than I have done for many years. Not to mention how nice it would be to avoid the pain in the neck and shoulders.
And you know what?
Though I do “only” made the simplest of simple – super short workouts with short, super simple exercises, and even simpler and shorter sessions where a single exercise is thoroughly reviewed – so I think I have actually started to become more mobile, especially in the neck.
And about that has happened on “only” so simple things, I wonder what will happen when I start doing more “proper” pass. This week I have started with an easy approx 20 minutes long pass. I'm going to do that all week – and hopefully also continue to practice individual exercises to get to the foundation properly. Next week I will try another workout, and my plan is that in time I will take myself to a slightly longer and somewhat more advanced workout.
And just think you what will happen to my body then. 😮
Over time, perhaps both knees and toes become more cooperative, in addition. Right now I have to be very careful, for my knees refuse to bend more than to a certain limit – it just does not work. And the toes, there, it is above all the big toes who do not want what I want. They are rigid and uncooperative like a thousand. But who knows, it may change, that too. 🙂