I relay this story now and again, and its about the time I stopped exercising for 2 weeks over christmas around 30 something years ago.
I didn’t lift weights, I didn’t run and here’s what happened.I had really bad asthma as a child frequently being in hospital I must add. Towards the end of the two weeks, I tried a run uphill, like I normally did, I struggled so much i couldn’t breathe, and brought all of those problems back full force.To be honest it scared me and i vowed to never feel like that ever again.
For those of you who have exercised for many years, you will know what I mean.
Stop exercising and you feel like trash full stop.I don’t call that a relief at all, I call it a hardship and breathing properly is very important to me!
So exercising and getting a sweat up is a necessity for me.So your call on exercising over christmas or not, but I do it simply to feel good, not have any breathing difficulties and to keep my immune system in good shape. it’s needed now more than ever
