Gonna have another good go at this "fitness" thing again starting from next week, because I'm increasingly aware with each passing week that the entire pandemic situation has knocked my body and general sense of physical wellbeing for six. And I don't mean because I've had COVID — I mean the general inactivity of the last year and a half has really taken its toll on me, and I haven't been looking after myself properly
I've known for some time that I'd need to do something about this, but I think the big problem up until now has been thinking of doing so as something of an "inconvenience" — something that I begrudgingly do at a time when I don't feel like I'm "missing out" on something else. It occurred to me today that I really need to change that thinking: I need to think of taking care of myself as something that I want to do, and something that I'm going to make time to do.
So starting from Monday, I'm going to get myself into a regular regime of swimming and gym visits. I've changed my gym membership from my local 24 hour place to a complex in town that has a swimming pool. Its opening hours are a bit more restrictive, but that will hopefully prevent me from going "ah, I'll go at 11pm when it's quiet", and then not going.
What I'm planning to do, then, is make some time around 7pm-ish every day to either go for a swim or visit the gym. I'm not going to do anything particularly "heavy" to begin with — I just need to get into the routine first, then take things from there. And the reason I wanted to incorporate swimming is that it's something I genuinely enjoy and find quite relaxing, even though I'm not terribly good at it. It also has the potential to be quite good exercise or at the very least a means of getting the whole body doing something, and that's what I need right now.
Before I jump into all that, I'm going to have a nice quiet weekend — no recording, no writing, no pressure on myself, just time to relax. I'm super-tired right now — partly as a side-effect of the second shot of the COVID vaccine but also just being a bit run-down generally — so I'm going to take the weekend to hopefully get a sense of relaxation to a suitable level before jumping into something a bit more "rigorous" starting on Monday.
What this means is that there will be no new videos on YouTube next week (except one announcing this short break) and no new part of the Atelier MegaFeature this weekend. Daily posts will continue here, though — and S-Rank Patrons will get a wallpaper this weekend, too. I think I might owe you two, actually, because I don't think I got around to one in the month just gone.
Things will be back to normal the following week — I just want to take this weekend to sort of collect myself and "reboot" somewhat without applying any sort of pressure.
I'm sure you all understand and have no objections to me doing this, but I wanted to let you all know regardless! Thank you for your understanding and continued support, and I'll (hopefully) be back to full strength in short order! Well, full mental strength, at least — I think the ol' body might need more than a quick tune-up at this point.
Anyway, that's that. Just wanted to let you know!
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