The Type Of Activity That Defines Your Entire Personality

A friend sent me an Instagram post this week that laid out the type of workout you may or may not enjoy, but probably do anyway, and what that actually has to say about your overall personality.  I’ve had moments in my life where I have gravitated towards a particular type of exercise and my personality has in fact reflected my need for that activity.

I used to be an avid runner and still do like to run from time to time, although now it’s more of a run/walk situation then an I’m training for a race sort of thing.  If you are a runner you're probably running away from one problem or another or so the IG post claimed. I actually couldn't agree more.  I found running in a particularly difficult time in my life.  I was about to go through a divorce, I had changed jobs, I needed to quite literally run away from some or all of those streesors.  Not really that I could, but in those early morning hours when it was just me, whatever musical anthem I had blasting my ear drums away, and the pavement, my mind was allowed the reprieve that it needed to disappear for awhile.

I don't feel the need to do all of that running that my 32 year old self was prone to do.  Maybe it’s because I’m in a better, more matured existence, or maybe it’s that I’m just tired of hitting the pavement for hours upon hours, or maybe it’s because my mind is in a better place, so something with a different focus is what is needed.

Thus, the practice of yoga has been my thing. Now I have been a yogi on and off for years, but currently I have placed more of a focus on it becomming an actual practice.   It’s not surprising that the post reads that yogis are anxious but bendy people, for that really does describe me the older that I have become, however the whole bendy thing is a work in progress. 

Why is it that now that I’m in my 40s I have a plethora of new illnesses, new aches, pains, just things in general that keeps me up at night worried that at any moment I’m going to fall victim to some new disease.  And don’t even get me started on the tightened vice that painfully squeezes aroung my heart when I think about the fact that my youth is something that I can barely even remember and have I actually done anything that I set out to do when the world seemed to be so much more carefree and loveable.

I also enjoy pilates, but do not necessarily agree that I am a control freak with good posture.  Although I have looked around the pilates studio a few times and would agree that that is perhaps a very accurate description for the majority of people that make up that space.

I do spinning as well, but it's in the comforts of my own home. Thank goodness for Peloton and the ability to choose instructors that do not yell at me because I really can’t take the criticism.

Weightlifting is a chore I force myself to do at least four times a week, not because the activity is something that I particularly enjoy, but because I know it is good for my bones, especially the older I have become.  And for the record, I do not agree that I am in a committed relationship with a mirror.  Half the time I hate what I see and will actually face away from said mirror and other times I think I don't look that bad in whatever workout set I have chosen to wear.  I don’t know what is different between the times when I like what I see and when I don’t.  I am the same person all of those times, but my brain has a way of manipulating my thoughts into hating some, or most (depending on the day) parts of me.

I have included the Instagram post for your viewing pleasure and you can pick out your chosen extracurricular exercise and see if it is in fact accurate to your overall personality.  Please comment a yay or nay with the exercise that you enjoy participating in and if the description is in fact accurate to you.