#my exercise

I only started this because Pilates mat was one of the few exercise routines I could do mostly on my back mostly without badly loading my injured elbow or ankle. I started stationary cycling for the same reason. But the strengthening effect has been good, and at a gradual level I can cope with, not so strenuous that I hate it and get put off

Ik woon en het westen van Duitsland. Hier spreken we Duits (wat een verrassing!), maar doordat we dichtbij Nederland en Belgie zijn spreken sommige mensen ook Nederlands en Frans. Duitse specialiteiten zijn bijvoorbeld Sauerbraten (dat vind ik NIET leuk) of Königsberger Klöpse (dat zijn gehaktballen met een witte saus!!). Iedereen kent het Duitse bier.

Hello everyone,

Teabro here with a little personal update on what I’ve been doing and why I post so rarely on here. You see, I really wanted to focus on improving my skill, so during the three months of free-time from university I have spent almost every day drawing. I took part in an online art course called Schoolism, read lots of art books and made lots of new accquaintances with similar goals as mine. I even dabbed a bit into the complex world of painting. My understanding of certain subjects like gesture and storytellin grew as did the amount of materials I used up over the course of three months. Here we are now, four sketchbooks later and I have to admit, I am kinda proud I did so much. But while I feel my skill grew a bit, I also feel that I neglected some important aspects about drawing and art in general. I don’t know exactly what it is, but studying like this just really isn’t as fun as what I did before. Some further thinking is required on these implications.

Anyways, down below the break you can look at the tools I used and some of my favorite drawings out of the sketchbooks:

I want to say thank you for reading my struggles yesterday. I know that it can be hard and draining to read some of these posts. I don’t wish to exhaust you or make your tumbling experience too unpleasant, but even just getting some hearts/likes on my post is quite encouraging. I don’t have a good support system, if one at all... really... so, thank you. It helped take the edge off of the extreme that I was so wrapped up in - having that idea that someone “cares” or even “hears”, you know?

SO!! Here’s a follow-up! I don’t want to make you think that it’s only bad, lol.

Today has been a lot better for me.

I’ve been a lot more stable, despite the mood swing of intense anger and grief that I had earlier today.

I’ve been discharged from physiotherapy!! And that’s probably why I’m on such an upswing - LOL! Despite, I’m taking it and running with it.

The physiotherapist doesn’t want me getting carried away, though, as I fall prey to overachieving and so, in a recovery setting, I end up derailing myself and causing more harm than good. He’s given me an outline about how to progress the difficulty, which is vague at best, and has given me the o.k. for using weights (only the machines, mind you, because he doesn’t believe that my body is competent enough to use the free-weights in a safe and controlled manner).

I’ve been told to schedule an appointment, for a check-up, in the events of:

a) I’ve progressed enough that the given exercises are too easy for me b) It’s been six to eight weeks (2 months) c) I feel that something’s wrong or have re-injured myself (GOD, let’s hope not for this one!! I’m hoping for option a. to be the winner! :’D)

Again, I’m at the place where I don’t really understand how to create a work-out program, but I’ll take that problem over an injury any day!! I want to progress! I want to be strong! Yay!

This seemed to have motivated me to eat, to say the least! :’D It’s still not “enough”, but GOD is it an improvement! Super proud of this today.