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My avid gym-going parents had convinced me to take their favorite instructors class.
Youll love it, Eva issogreat!
Evawasgreat, and I wanted to kindly her because she looked like she genuinely loved her class.
an exercise physiologist and founder ofAutonomy In Movement
So I cranked that resistance dial up each time she encouraged us to.
It was grueling, especially for someone who never reallydidphys-ed.
But in the end, I decided spin classes werent for me.
A year later, my relationship with my body began to fracture.
What started as a weight-loss goal leading up to my universitys ball continued long after the ball was over.
It introduced itself to me with a new name,orthorexia, and it governed how I exercised.
I moved my body for the sole purpose of achieving a certain aesthetic.
I scheduled fun life activities around training and was wracked with anxiety and guilt when I missed sessions.
It wasnt until 2015 that I fully recovered from orthorexia.
an exercise physiologist and founder ofAutonomy In Movement
Losing that desire was freeingI was living life as intended.
But losing the main driver for why I had exercised also meant restarting movement wasnt easy.
Over the last nine years, Ive tried to work out consistently, but its never stuck.
Most of us dont want to do things that we feel wehaveto do, she says.
But its possible to overcome this bang out of mental blockIm living proof.
Not something you believe is good or correct or what you should do.
Not something that pushes your heart rate past a certain number or provides resistance to your muscles.
Something you actuallyliketo do.
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Ihadbeen movingdancing all night at parties, strolls with friends, walking my parents dog.
Funny how Id never counted any of these activities as proper exercise.
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Reilly recommends doing this with a psychologist or a trusted loved one.
In the past, I was doing movement that could silence voicesboth inner and external criticsquickly.
This was the best way I knew how to soothe myself at the time.
Today, I no longer have that inner critic, and Im able to shut out those external voices.
I have the agency to select movements I actually enjoy.
I am now re-establishing my relationship with movement in a more sustainable way.
I am worthy and morally good, regardless of my fitness status.
When I turned 30, the looming health risks of skipping exercise started to terrify me.
However, it did nothing to get me back into the gymI believed I had missed my chance.
I was already 30.
It was too late, wasnt it?
Its never, never too late to start, Reilly says.
Its actually predictive of better long-term well-being outcomes because we are more likely to actually do the movement.
Knowing theres no ticking time bomb to movement is freeing.
You have the power to choose when movement flows in and out of your life.
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