Pyschological tricks

[forgotten_aria]

I really need to start exercising everyday again. My best bet is DDR. Does anyone have any tricks for tricking themselves into doing things you don't want to do everyday? I've tried the calandar trick, the bribing myself trick, the "I'm not allowed to do *fun thing* until *important thing* is done" trick. Anything else I might try?

Also any other excerise suggestions are also welcome.

DDR is still fun for me, but since I've lost my muscles my joints give out earlier than I would like. I don't know how to get back into shape when I can't play for as long as I would like.

EDIT: acutally it's the fac that I'm overweight that makes my joints hate me. grrr.... catch 22.

Comments

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

That used to work. DDR give syou grades and I kept records, but now, it's like, "oh I got a B on that? I used to AAA it..."

[katybeth]

Different data, maybe? Record time spent per day?

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I tried time per day, but that was such a limit of my stupid joints. I even tried cutting back so it was super easy songs, but they just didn't feel like they were holding my interest OR giving me a work out.

[katybeth]

Or accepting that you're starting over and resetting your expectations for grades. The past couple weeks climbing after a long break, I honestly can't tell if some of the routes are hard or if I'm really out of shape on them. It doesn't do any good for me to say "I used to be able to climb most 5.10A's, why am I having trouble with a 5.9?" Better to start from where I am now. That doesn't always keep me from being frustrated with the backslide, of course.

[bdeakin.livejournal.com]

I also treat it as data gathering.