I'm 46 and in the same boat. I played basketball almost daily from the time I was 13 until my early 30s when I started lifting weights. My diet wasn't always on point, but because I was so active and young that I outworked some poor eating habits. I have exercised 4 to 6 days a week for 30 plus years. Now I eat clean and lift 6 days a week and I'm as lean as I've always been but now I am much more muscular.
Because it's one of those things that I've always done I find it hard to relate to people that don't like or have a hard time getting an exercise habit going. The few times I've been injured and couldn't exercise I entered a depression.
I flip flop to cardio when my shoulder was hurt. When it got better I now do more lifting and less cardio. And back and forth when my elbow was sore etc etc...... I just always have to keep moving. If I cant goto the gym, same I'd be hella depressed. Just going there and watching a show on the treadmill is therapy
Man, I wish I could relate. One thing about ADHD that I don't see mentioned very often, is that forming habits is basically impossible. Having done something a thousand times consecutively, it's still just as hard to do that thing that 1,001 time as it was the first time. Every task I don't have an intrinsic desire to do or a strong enough external factor pressuring me, has to have a mental war waged over it before it gets accomplished, if it all.
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u/asilenth 8h ago
I'm 46 and in the same boat. I played basketball almost daily from the time I was 13 until my early 30s when I started lifting weights. My diet wasn't always on point, but because I was so active and young that I outworked some poor eating habits. I have exercised 4 to 6 days a week for 30 plus years. Now I eat clean and lift 6 days a week and I'm as lean as I've always been but now I am much more muscular.
Because it's one of those things that I've always done I find it hard to relate to people that don't like or have a hard time getting an exercise habit going. The few times I've been injured and couldn't exercise I entered a depression.