Fitness

[wellinghall]

O wise FList, I need your help.

I want to get fit. No, scrub that - "fit" is far too high a target to aim at. I want to get a little bit fitter, and lose the couch potato status I seem to have acquired over the last few months. I do have some physical issues which complicate this - knee, feet, shoulder, nose, lungs, to name just the most obvious - but they don't have to keep me welded to the settee.

Does anyone have any suggestions for:
- some sort of fitness program I could follow? - in fairly easy steps, please!
- some sort of (realistic!) target I could aim at?

Comments

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

If there are any yoga or pilates classes that you can (and will) get to, then they are pretty gentle on dodgy bits, expecially if you tell the instructor what bits you need to be careful with.

Walking more is also an excellent idea.

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I endorse this. I go to yoga, and I just miss out the bits that my joints can't cope with. I give everything a go the first time, gently and not too much, then if I find I haven't got a problem I do it a bit more the next time, and I've been surprised at what I can do. Yoga is also really good exercise - it gives you a great workout (some of it while you're lying down!) and uses every part of the body.