Since I was like 12 I was blessed with the genetics of an 80 yo. Having muscle spasms, hernias, and all sorts of bizarre crap. The two times in my life I got into a workout regime things would get progressively better until months down the line, when I'd have to do surgery of some kind, likely because I 'worked out too much'. Doctors tell me to start lifting weights, but they don't seem to believe me and simply tell me I'm a male and young and shouldn't be as frail as I am. No tests in 20+ years have shown anything out of the ordinary, except for whatever problem I developed all of a sudden, so it's no wonder. I'm afraid that trainers in a gym wouldn't be any better. Got no idea where to start. Pool workouts with the elderly maybe?
This is tricky to advise on over the internet, tbh – good advice would require a good look at how you move
There are other kinds of resistance exercise besides iron: sandbags, bodyweight exercises.... are you also scared of them?
Less so, I suppose. My negative association is with 'lifting stuff'. Any stuff. Years of doctors visits about my body's magical ability to create hernias circa age 10 did that.
I used to do pilates and will be in a position to be back at it in a month. I guess I just need some reassurance about it and I feel like I'm not going to the right doctors to get one. Not really looking out to get super buff or anything.
Doctors can be pretty useless when they encounter something that wasn't in their textbooks. : ( Dealing with then when you have any kind of chronic or uncommon illness is miserable.