Comments on: Exercise and the gifted: creative benefits of making it fun http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/ For and by gifted, talented and creative adults. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Chris Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:56:03 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-966 Just dropping by as a "gifted person" who is also a dedicated athlete (long distance runner). Why is it that people think physical and intellectual fitness are incompatible? Just dropping by as a “gifted person” who is also a dedicated athlete (long distance runner). Why is it that people think physical and intellectual fitness are incompatible?

]]> By: Donna http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Donna Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:57:43 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-422 I like dance, with plenty of ass-shaking, sweat, drama, and joy. I occasionally get choked up, dance is so much a part of being human, especially communal dance. I like sculling too, and sweep rowing. Both require attention and total investment of self (which I lose and find and lose again). I love the river. It always feels to me like the mother of this place. Weight lifting is gratifying, undertaken with creativity and care. I enjoy the fantasy of the comic book hero with proud stance and skimpy costume, able to leap tall buildings and lift them too, one handed. Exercise doesn't have to be serious business to be effective. We are animals, we need to play! I like dance, with plenty of ass-shaking, sweat, drama, and joy. I occasionally get choked up, dance is so much a part of being human, especially communal dance.
I like sculling too, and sweep rowing. Both require attention and total investment of self (which I lose and find and lose again). I love the river. It always feels to me like the mother of this place.
Weight lifting is gratifying, undertaken with creativity and care. I enjoy the fantasy of the comic book hero with proud stance and skimpy costume, able to leap tall buildings and lift them too, one handed.
Exercise doesn’t have to be serious business to be effective. We are animals, we need to play!

]]> By: Christopher J. Coulson http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Christopher J. Coulson Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:02:38 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-416 Acrobatics? Of course. It's super-challenging and demands balance, strength, flexibility - and a lot more physical courage than I think I could muster. And thank you for explaining why I was never much good at tennis! Acrobatics? Of course. It’s super-challenging and demands balance, strength, flexibility – and a lot more physical courage than I think I could muster. And thank you for explaining why I was never much good at tennis!

]]> By: Kirsten Dierolf http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Kirsten Dierolf Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:12:33 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-413 You are so right ... I do 15 min of Pilates every morning and play tennis. My secret goal is to be able to do some acrobatics like walking on your hands and such (but it's a long way). For me it's really about having a goal that is stretch enough and that I really want. Tennis is a big challenge (I mean -- a small fast object approaching you, your first impulse is to run away, sensibly, no?) and acrobatics is impossible but way way fun. Actually, maybe I should try and book a workshop on it ... I just might be up to it. At least I could try ... You are so right … I do 15 min of Pilates every morning and play tennis. My secret goal is to be able to do some acrobatics like walking on your hands and such (but it’s a long way). For me it’s really about having a goal that is stretch enough and that I really want. Tennis is a big challenge (I mean — a small fast object approaching you, your first impulse is to run away, sensibly, no?) and acrobatics is impossible but way way fun. Actually, maybe I should try and book a workshop on it … I just might be up to it. At least I could try …

]]> By: Lynne Merryland http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Lynne Merryland Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:26:25 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-411 Hi Chris, I walk my dog and do scouts pace 6running/6walking for part of it. We also organised a really long walk across England for 7 weeks which kept us well entertained and we were really fit at the end. Then we wrote a book about it. I like epic but its not a way to spend all my life or may be it is... Hi Chris,
I walk my dog and do scouts pace 6running/6walking for part of it. We also organised a really long walk across England for 7 weeks which kept us well entertained and we were really fit at the end. Then we wrote a book about it. I like epic but its not a way to spend all my life or may be it is…

]]> By: Christopher J. Coulson http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-408 Christopher J. Coulson Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-408 Mmm. I do resonate with the boredom issue. Of course, you could pedal a unicycle or a penny-farthing (what would that be in US dollars?) Or perhaps there's some sort of iPhone app that could somehow motivate you to exercise while presenting itself as a more cognitive challenge. Suppose it linked the GPS system into a treasure hunt for exotic spices? Is there money to be made . . . ?! Mmm. I do resonate with the boredom issue. Of course, you could pedal a unicycle or a penny-farthing (what would that be in US dollars?) Or perhaps there’s some sort of iPhone app that could somehow motivate you to exercise while presenting itself as a more cognitive challenge. Suppose it linked the GPS system into a treasure hunt for exotic spices? Is there money to be made . . . ?!

]]> By: Christopher Bird http://www.thegiftedway.com/personaldevelopment/exercise-and-the-gifted-creative-benefits-of-making-it-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Christopher Bird Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:15:05 +0000 http://www.thegiftedway.com/?p=1100#comment-406 Chris, You do have the knack of making us confront those things we ordinarily shy away from. Somehow you do it with grace, so I don't feel a total plonker for not exercising. That said, I haven't found an exercise that brings me the same pleasures that sculling does for you. Looking inside, I can't understand why not. For sure the gym oriented "exercise" resembles torture. My favorite activity is rightly described as a pastime, although I think that grinders would beg to differ! So what to do? I will occasionally ride my bike - nice trails here in the spring. But even that has to cope with my nemesis - boredom. And that is the crux of the matter, I somehow demand to be "entertained" the whole time. The "entertainment" has to be total. Chris,
You do have the knack of making us confront those things we ordinarily shy away from. Somehow you do it with grace, so I don’t feel a total plonker for not exercising.

That said, I haven’t found an exercise that brings me the same pleasures that sculling does for you. Looking inside, I can’t understand why not. For sure the gym oriented “exercise” resembles torture. My favorite activity is rightly described as a pastime, although I think that grinders would beg to differ!

So what to do? I will occasionally ride my bike – nice trails here in the spring. But even that has to cope with my nemesis – boredom. And that is the crux of the matter, I somehow demand to be “entertained” the whole time. The “entertainment” has to be total.

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