My body continues to surprise me. This time, though, it’s a good thing.<\/p>\n
Today, I felt compelled … to … exercise<\/em>.<\/p>\n I can’t remember the last time I had that feeling. Maybe it was in 1998, when I started running, and loved it so much that I thought I’d try to do a triathalon.<\/p>\n In the condition I am in – still struggling to get up after 10 hours of sleep, still never sure how I will react to anything, still unclear about how long this will take – you’d think exercise would require far too much discipline.<\/p>\n Yet, somehow, I couldn’t wait to get to the pool and start kicking my arms and legs. I did my abdominal strengthening, too.<\/p>\n I guess that this is the first time in a long time that I’ve seen such a direct connection between exercise and well-being. Most important of which is that the lower back pain eases and disappears when I exercise.<\/p>\n But just as important, going to the pool or for a walk or just doing at-home stretching has given me a sense of sanity. I can see my progress – doing 35 minutes in the pool instead of 20, walking a little further.<\/p>\n Come to think of it, this is another case of something that’s the same, only moreso.<\/p>\n Whenever I’m on a regular workout routine, I feel better. And I think, “Why do I avoid exercise?? It’s so good for me!”<\/p>\n I never felt compelled to do it, though. Until today.<\/p>\n The penny for today is a 1998, for the year I took up running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My body continues to surprise me. This time, though, it’s a good thing. Today, I felt compelled … to … exercise. I can’t remember the last time I had that feeling. Maybe it was in 1998, when I started running, and loved it so much that I thought I’d try to do a triathalon. In … read more Compelled to what?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[621,622,136,624,625,504,623],"class_list":["post-6744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-621","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-pool","tag-progress","tag-recovery","tag-workout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}