#funtionality

Dealing with lower functionality

So things with the vestibular symptoms on top of everything else have limited my functionality and therefore my capacity to distract myself from the pain. And to well do much of anything. I can’t do much housework. If I can do anything at all in that day it is 1 small thing. Like maybe I will clean the litterboxes. And then I am done. Day over. I have made it worse. So that is pretty much out…

What is the most important thing we can do to help our bodies cope with every day stress? Exercise! Exercise helps your body sleep, get energy, calm your emotions down, help with mental stress and physical stress, and functionality. Functionality is a big thing that we’re going to be talking about today.

When you go to exercise, what is it you’re looking to do? Are you looking to lose weight because the media or your friends and family told you that you’re too fat? Like mine did? Are you working out to make yourself look sexier? Basically what I am asking is are you doing it based on looks or are you trying to perform to the best you can perform.

You see I went to Michigan dunes with my buddy Alex, we talked and talked and talked about work, psychology, you name it. But when we started climbing the dunes, it got hard. I am a smoker, which I am trying my hardest to quit that habit, so my lungs were suffering. My heart rate kept going up to where I would start to get dizzy and it was not good on my body. I pushed my body to the max, almost passing out from that. You know, even Alex asked me if I was okay. But looking at him being able to run up the dunes, run on the sand even, barely out of breath while I was huffing and puffing trying to get up that dune, it made me stop and think why do I want to exercise?

It hurts my lungs and it makes my body feel like it’s about to pass out. Then it came to me. Functionality. I want to be able to increase the skills that I have now. I am very strong and I am very motivated. You give me a challenge I’m gonna beat that challenge with 120% effort. But even though I can still get to where I wanna be, it’s a struggle to get there. And it’s because of the smoker part of me and because I am overweight.

Yeah overtime I can achieve the goal I put into place, but at the same time I wouldn’t be able to run up those dunes and take complete control of that freedom being able to do that type of exercise without much effort.