Generally, so much of what the medical community espouses about fibromyalgia seems to be anti-fitness. While it is more or less accepted that light exercise is helpful, few if any fibromyalgia experts would ever advise the strenuous interval training workouts that I do with my trainer three days a week. This is in addition to at least one barre method class as well as walking a minimum of 12 hilly miles. I do this every week with few exceptions. It has become an addiction that I cannot live without. It is a religion of sorts, but in this case I am the sacred vessel and exercise is the catalyst that nurtures a peaceful mind-body connection.
The hard thing about exercise is that you have to get over that proverbial hump before you can actually feel the goodness that a fit body can bring. You can't really understand the endorphin rush that comes from a challenging workout until you experience it yourself. Think about trying to precisely and accurately explain how an orgasm feels. Hard to explain, but you sure know it when it happens. And it's always GOOD!!
But, with fibromyalgia there's another more insidious hump and it's called pain. For me, at least, there was little else more difficult than trying to push through a 45 minute workout with a body that was riddled with pain. This was especially true in the beginning when I didn't know what, if anything, would happen as my workouts became more and more challenging, but with intensity comes a bit of wisdom: DON'T THINK ABOUT IT JUST DO IT
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning.
I think about it all day and I dream about it at night.
The only time I don't think about it
is when I'm playing it.
-Carl Yastrzemski