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1. What do you do to maintain or improve your physical fitness?
I try to do yoga at least twice a week--specifically, I like an intense vinyasa-style yoga practice. I take long vigorous walks. When I can, I go to the gym and do 20-40 minutes on the elliptical machine, and lift some arm weights.
2. What do you do to maintain or improve your mental fitness (e.g puzzles, reading challenging books, etc.)?
Anyone who reads my LJ knows that I read all the time. I like reading all kinds of books. I don't like to read too many of the same kind of book in a row--I like to mix it up and move from regular fiction to fantasy/sci-fi to memoir to nonfiction about history or archaeology to poetry. I also like crossword puzzles. When I can get them, I absolutely adore logic puzzles: ie, "Adam, Bob, Carl, and Dan all live on the same street. Their wives are Edna, Faye, Gert, and Harriet..." and you have to figure out which guy is married to which woman and what color house he has and what pet. That sort of thing. I love those puzzles. I got a perfect 800 on the analytical section of the GRE.
3. What do you do to maintain or improve your emotional fitness (e.g. get enough sleep, meditate, take supplements or medication)?
Yoga fits in this category, too. Also, sleeping, writing, spending time with friends and family, and spending time alone, and talking to F every day. Keeping a clean home is also really important for my emotional needs.
4. What things would you like to be doing to maintain or improve your physical, mental, or emotional fitness, but aren't? Why aren't you doing them?
I don't take good enough care of my emotional and physical needs, I think. I don't do yoga as often as I would like to. I avoid writing, when I know writing is good for me and is something I enjoy once I get started. I've been trying to figure out why I don't do these things when I know I should, when I know that I enjoy doing them and that they make me feel good. I think that I am lazy and I give in to that too often. I also think I am afraid to not succeed.
5. What things have you tried to do to to maintain or improve your physical, mental, or emotional fitness, but that didn't work? Why didn't they work?
For physical fitness: I'm not a big pilates fan. Eh. Ditto for aerobics--it can be fun, but it's also really tiring for me. Most of the things I've tried to do for my emotional fitness don't work because of the aforementioned laziness. This is something I really need to work on. Mental fitness is probably the easiest thing for me to do, because so much of what I naturally gravitate toward doing can be considered good for mental fitness. I hadn't thought of this in these terms before.
altfriday5:1. What do you do to maintain or improve your physical fitness?
I try to do yoga at least twice a week--specifically, I like an intense vinyasa-style yoga practice. I take long vigorous walks. When I can, I go to the gym and do 20-40 minutes on the elliptical machine, and lift some arm weights.
2. What do you do to maintain or improve your mental fitness (e.g puzzles, reading challenging books, etc.)?
Anyone who reads my LJ knows that I read all the time. I like reading all kinds of books. I don't like to read too many of the same kind of book in a row--I like to mix it up and move from regular fiction to fantasy/sci-fi to memoir to nonfiction about history or archaeology to poetry. I also like crossword puzzles. When I can get them, I absolutely adore logic puzzles: ie, "Adam, Bob, Carl, and Dan all live on the same street. Their wives are Edna, Faye, Gert, and Harriet..." and you have to figure out which guy is married to which woman and what color house he has and what pet. That sort of thing. I love those puzzles. I got a perfect 800 on the analytical section of the GRE.
3. What do you do to maintain or improve your emotional fitness (e.g. get enough sleep, meditate, take supplements or medication)?
Yoga fits in this category, too. Also, sleeping, writing, spending time with friends and family, and spending time alone, and talking to F every day. Keeping a clean home is also really important for my emotional needs.
4. What things would you like to be doing to maintain or improve your physical, mental, or emotional fitness, but aren't? Why aren't you doing them?
I don't take good enough care of my emotional and physical needs, I think. I don't do yoga as often as I would like to. I avoid writing, when I know writing is good for me and is something I enjoy once I get started. I've been trying to figure out why I don't do these things when I know I should, when I know that I enjoy doing them and that they make me feel good. I think that I am lazy and I give in to that too often. I also think I am afraid to not succeed.
5. What things have you tried to do to to maintain or improve your physical, mental, or emotional fitness, but that didn't work? Why didn't they work?
For physical fitness: I'm not a big pilates fan. Eh. Ditto for aerobics--it can be fun, but it's also really tiring for me. Most of the things I've tried to do for my emotional fitness don't work because of the aforementioned laziness. This is something I really need to work on. Mental fitness is probably the easiest thing for me to do, because so much of what I naturally gravitate toward doing can be considered good for mental fitness. I hadn't thought of this in these terms before.
