We all have bad days, and it's especially bad if your brain is kicking your guts from the inside.
26F, currently doing Emi Wong's upper body challenge. It's 30-45 minutes long HIIT exercises and I can barely keep up, have to skip a rep or two each time. It's a lot of fun, I feel so good being able to do HIIT for 30 minutes or more, and it helps me so much in sleeping which I usually have a hard time doing.
I also have a number of mental illnesses. I took therapy for 4 years, I'm doing so much better, but they're still there and some days it's very hard to escape the pain and return to the real world.
I've been following the challenge without missing a day, and I know that if you miss a day in your exercise goals, you're more likely to miss another day as well. I was in a lot of mental pain. It tires your whole body. It felt uncomfortable even reaching out for my water bottle. But I knew if I just skipped the workout I would feel so guilty later on and possibly fuel my bad thoughts more. So I thought, hey, why not do a warm up routine? It's short, it's low impact, and I could really use the exercise serotonin right now.
It took me half an hour of effort to be able to get up and get my mat, but I still did it. I got up, did the warm up routine (which still gave me a lot of cardio points from the sheer effort I had to put in), then followed up with a ten minute sitting arm exercise. I felt so proud afterwards. I'm still so proud of myself for being able to do SOMETHING.
We can't control having a mental illness, but if possible, we can put extra effort into our behaviour and help ourselves. What years of mental illness taught me is that if you do SOMETHING, instead of doing nothing, you will feel so much better. And you will feel proud to have fought back. The same goes for eating habits or even studying. This is not possible every day. Some days are worse than others. But whenever you feel like you can manage to put in five minutes of energy, it's better to get moving.
Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a great day!
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