Psychosomatic?

[deathpixie]

*sigh*

It's getting to the point I'm starting to wonder if I'm somehow doing this on purpose.

Wednesday - rejoin gym.

Thursday - fitness test.

Friday - 'flu of the nasty high temperature sort.

Every bloody time I try to do something to get fitter, I get sick. I swear, I'm starting to hate my immune system almost as much as I hate the fat rolls.

Comments

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

I got sick the week after I started TKD - lots of new germs, in a few place working out, and you get them all at once without any slow buildup. A lot of people get sick their first month at a new job or school too.

[deathpixie]

I haven't even started - the fitness test was one-on-one, and when I signed up, it was just with Greg and the owner. This one's from Mindy and Johnny, but the timing is bloody annoying.

[khanfused.livejournal.com]

Could you do something to get fitter that is *fun* ... so you can trick your body into behaving?

Acourse ... look who'se talking. I just started cranking away on a expensive-but-bought-used road bike, trying to get myself ready for a century ride some time this year ... and I managed to bruise my hand through improper handlebar placement. Owch.

[deathpixie]

I actually like going to the gym. *grins*

And ow on the hand - I pinched a nerve in mine once using hard plastic handlebar grips on a weekend-long tour, so you have my sympathies. But yay bike!

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

How over your last flu were you? It could simply be a flair up of the previous one if it wasn't completely done with.

[deathpixie]

I was over it - that one was in January, it's now the end of March and I'd been perfectly well for February except for a neck strain. No, this is a new shiny one - Mindy and Johnny have had it all week. *grfs*

[dawnkiller.livejournal.com]

If your immune system is tanked, I'd suggest starting slow with walking or some light jogging to get it back in the groove. There was a point when mine bailed along with my stamina, making all efforts to get back into shape miserably slow, but cranking things up in slow and gradually increasing incriments helped a lot.

[deathpixie]

I have been walking - I get off the subway two stops early and walk the rest of the way home. And jogging is out because a) my ankles are screwed; b) my left knee is also screwed and c) as a runner I make a really good cyclist. ;) The gym is my next step and I haven't even gone yet.