exercising
Are you an exerciser? What physical achievement are you most proud of? Ever play any sports?
my relationship with exercise is pretty spontaneous. as a child and teenager, i rarely exercised outside of gym class. i think a lot of this is actually because of gym class. i really didn't want to exercise around anyone, didn't know about exercises that didn't involve weights or equipment of some sort. so i mostly put up with gym class. i hadn't yet realized i was transgender, mainly because the word transgender didn't exist anywhere around me. so there was this feeling that if i was to exercise, it obviously was to be all muscly and attempting to be a body builder or something
in my twenties i think i began to feel a bit more comfortable with exercise, though it was still spontaneous, i was beginning to understand there was a lot i could do with just my body weight. i also understood (and still do) that if i'd like to sit at the computer. my core and back deserve some strengthening. i was beginning to become more comfortable with my body as well. i still didn't have the word transgender, but it was not at all important for me to have any kind of typical masculine physique
now in my 30s, i'm comfortable with exercising. though it is paused at the moment, i've learned the value of yoga, general body stretching, how to do exercises like squats and strengthening parts of my body with just my body weight. i also don't mind using a pair of dumb bells, though i need to get reacquainted with workouts involving them
Ever play any sports?
i have to be honest, sports are not for me. i'm not a competitive person at all. i'd say i'm mainly inwardly competitive with myself. in gym class i rarely liked any of the sports activities we did. i think hockey was the only thing i really liked. in my teens i went ice skating exactly once, which i loved. but i don't see an interest in doing it competitively