Joanne Smith has chronic pain triggered by sitting, so she's tried cycling, roller-skating, ice-skating, and hula-hooping to find what works. She asks herself constantly: what can I physically do right now? The key is listening to your body and experimenting until you find movements that feel doable and keep you engaged.
For me, if you, you know, if you said go and do sit in a chair, because for me sitting in a chair is a trigger to pain, so I wouldn't be no good with any chair workouts. But some people, that might be their only option is to do the chair workouts. So it is a case of being creative, really creative. Like, you will have within you the answers on how you can go about doing that. Like, I even once Went through a phase where there's— I go through over a lot of years, it's like, well, what physically am I able to do? And it was like, well, all I could really feel that I could physically do was cycle. So then I cycled. Then I went through other times where all I felt like I could do was roller skate, so I joined roller skating. And it was like, I just always were really like, what, what physically can I do? I did ice skating for a while. Anything that I felt that I'm motivated and distracted, I guess, to do— it doesn't really matter what the activity is. I've got into hula hooping massively 4 years back. That was the biggest change that was really helpful for me.
