hi somerunner my good moot! do you have any advice for convincing myself to go on runs and do exercise
Hello moot! I have not played White Knuckle since February.
As far as motivation for running/exercising goes, I would probably say that patience is a limited resource that takes a long period of repeated practice to improve on. Like muscles, or like skills. So while "don't work out too hard your first day/week getting into things, because your body will break" IS sound advice...I would add that you shouldn't do anything too boring either.
Do something fun. My university library has a VR headset available for scheduled use (at least it did in 2019), and I played Beat Saber on it. Play a dancing video game of some kind. Do some sprints and jogs or curls and stuff to appropriate songs (i.e. not your favorites, but otherwise the most enjoyable music for the workout. More intense music for shorter burst segments, less intense for longer segments of the workout)
And do the (probably minimally-fun) exercise only to the point you get a little bored. Leave yourself wanting a little more. It's likely you forced yourself to do the workout in the first place; do not push yourself too much further! You want to make this a habit. Of course, a five-minute workout may not be long enough for you to begin feeling "the itch" to work out, so it's an inexact measurement of course. I guess it's partly "go until your boredom rises to some level" and "go until your boredom drops to some level," and trying to watch your boredom to make sure that your motivating emotion (be it spite, hope, anxiety, other, or a combination) is at a high enough level in comparison.
As with all my advice, this is kind of pieced together from guesses and general advice from other people, and is not something I follow myself. Any discipline I have, I generally luck into without knowing exactly what I did right. I've tried to piece together what has made my good habits stick, and this is one of the important parts: watch your patience along with your pain.
TL;DR - Leave yourself wanting more every time!! However you can do that, do that.
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