How can I get over my disdain for sport enough so I can exercise yet again? (lemmy.world)

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TL;DR: Gained too much weight after I fell and broke my arm + couldn't really move for a while. I have a lot of trauma related to sports, like I was forced to play football like any other Hungarian kid, and I was awful at it, which made others be angry at me for it, which made me reluctant to do it. Even if I manage to do it, I often get brutal, crippling muscle pain, which makes me fo it even less.

Since I"m Hungarian, I cannot rely on health care at all, especially mental health, as it was the very first thing that got cut, amd I cannot afford private care.

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[-] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 points 2 hours ago

Obviously there's plenty of ways to exercise without playing sports ball or any team based activities OP, don't make me list them all 😅

I wouldn't advise sports for health anyways, that's usually how everyone involved in sports I know acquires significant injuries and permanent body damage!

Do whatever. I walk around my local green belt after work each day or night since I work rotating shifts. I get home and do a minimal equipment workout in my basement gym in the style of George Hackenschmidt, a classical (pre-steroids and targeted workouts requiring gobs of equipment) professional strong man, ride my bicycle around the city bike trails in summer months, use a rowing machine I bought used in the winter while watching Futurama or whatever I don't have to pay much attention. Took up dancing and kick boxing. I don't like those last two very much but it's more about preventing my social skills from atrophying tbh, gotta exercise that too! Nothing I listed is what I'm saying you should do, it's just examples. Find stuff you can do with your current body condition without risking injury. Doing a regular walk daily is a great start alone.

Well, when it's not 40+ outside with 100 humidity at least. I've visited Hungary in a heat wave before, absolute fucking misery.

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