So here's an exercise hack that maybe is obvious but wasn't for me so sharing in case someone could use it:

I walk a lot. I have a daily average step goal every month and I just do not like sitting still. It also helps me relax and/or think.

So I try to squeeze in some walking when I have a little time between things.

I also ride public transport everywhere. But like many ADHDers, I struggle to estimate time necessary to get to a place and like many autistics, I hate being late. So I end up with a lot of extra time, but still limited by when the thing I'm going to starts.

So, I started using Google Maps to check the time needed to get to my destination, but specifically the WALKING time.

That's because I then get live estimates of how much spare time I have for walking.

Let me give a typical example.

I have therapy in like an hour and nothing urgent to do. I take my usual tram to the therapy but getting there takes less than an hour. So I check the route but crucially NOT for public transit. I tell the app I'mma be walking, but I get on the tram as normal. It shows the arrival time as two hours from now or whatever. I start the "walking".

The ETA rapidly drops because I'm "walking" at the speed of a tram. 110 minutes, 90, 70, 50... at some point it's, say, a thirty minute walk to a place I need to be at in forty minutes. So I get off the tram and walk the rest of the way.

It works in reverse. I have a meeting in thirty minutes and the time is short? I ride like two stops via a random tram going roughly the right way. I have ten extra minutes, don't have to rush.

It works when I want to be somewhere at a certain time but it's flexible.

Nowadays I rarely even check the actual travel time, just launch the walking route and adjust on the fly.

And I don't think it's just beneficial to a neurospicy brain. People have been complaining that life gets faster and faster and yet we feel like we have a lot less time since the invention of railways, pretty much. In the twentieth and the twenty-first century a big part of this has been, I think, that we rush to places and then have a little time that we can only waste waiting, because what the heck are you gonna do with those gen minutes at the doctor's waiting room or whatever.

So I live slower but also spend more time existing within that slowness. Without having to sacrifice living in a world measured by clocks.

#ActuallyAutistic #neurospicy #timemanagement #exercise

EDIT: oh, and it absolutely works for situations where I hang around for a few hours before a thing starts, but getting there is like ten minutes. I launch the trip with four hours to spare or whatever, and I can go for a walk, or go window shopping, or sit on a bench and relax, or whatever. I'm not stressed about possible time blindness because I can check my time margin at all times regardless of where I go and what I do in the meantime.

Gonna move my body today. That's the plan.
With friends. Yup.
Move body with friends. #CircusInPlace

I think I'm gonna take a look at this pt guide for post op recovery that is specifically for top surgery and run through the exercises, feel them out.

Then I'm going to do my normal playing about upsidedown on my hands :)