"5minutes? That's nothing and it won't help! You need to exercise at least 30minutes for it to be effective" is a sentence that makes my blood boil. Because everytime i tried to be active in the past 5minutes was all i could manage and there was always someone telling me a variation of that sentence after. In the past it made me feel like shit and like a failure so i stopped trying. But not this time! I did zumba for the first time (home dvds) and again 5/6minutes was all i could manage (whole body sweatting,muscles giving up) and again someone (this time my boyfriend) told me "that doesn't do anything" and i got angry. I was proud of my 5minutes, because i did SOMETHING. When you are out of breath by just walking stairs or walking in general for a while and haven't truely exercised since school, 5minutes is a win! Sure 5minutes won't make me lose lots of weight and make me super fit BUT 5minutes were a start, a much needed start! 5minutes turned to 7 to 9 to 12 to 20. I didn't even have to get to 20 before i noticed a difference in my day to day life. Stairs weren't a problem anymore, walking fast didn't hurt my feet, standing up from the couch was easy and my overall body feeling changed. And it was all thanks to the original 5minutes.
So please if you struggle like i did: just do what you are able to. Doesn't matter if its only 1minute. Try out different things (my favorite 3 so far: zumba, ring fit adventure and chloe ting workouts on youtube) You don't even have to do it every day. Improvement will happen over time. And any kind of improvement is better than getting worse or staying the same. I'm currently working on finishing a 30min workout video in one go. So far i can only manage 50% with 1 break but that's ok. Every try will make it easier. Good luck to whoever is reading this 😊
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