YES!!!
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Battle ropes? Incline walking or weighted vest walking might also be options?
Hey @anna_5588 and welcome to the log. 
Haha I like the term “veg out”. I follow your log and know you struggle with resting. I kind of had a phase were I was in a maybe somewhat similar situation. At least I would imagine the mindset could have been comparable. I actually never told that story on tnation before.
That was when I was about 15 or 16 years old, I think. I was a little chubby back then. I played sports and was decently athletic but just didn’t have a body like my friends had. The comments I would get about that in school really got to me. I don’t think that anyone wanted to be particularly malicious or even knew that they hurt me. I was not an outsider at all or being seriously bullied or something along those lines. Buuut teenagers are dumb, aren’t they? That includes me because I never spoke up about it.
That summer I decided to change things. And I did. I felt freaking on fire. On a mission that was burned into my skull. I couldn’t sit still. I moved and moved. I didn’t need rest. If I felt like stopping I would grab my love handles or stand in front of the mirror with my shirt off and made myself be disgusted with what I saw. Ever unsatisfied.
That doesn’t sound too bad at first glance, does it?
I lost 18 kg in a little under three weeks. That is fucking mental. How did I do that? I had no clue about how to approach this intelligently and wouldn’t speak to a single soul about what I was doing. I only ate one meal per day (lunch) and would run 2-3 times a day! I played soccer back then and that was all the exercise I knew.
This all didn’t come free obviously. I was in fucking pain. My back screamed and begged to stop this madness, shins inflammed to hell, inner thighs chafed (not sure about that word, got it from translator).and so on. Obviously I was also starving with only one little meal a day and multiple runs (and we aren’t talking about 2 km here - a standard would be at least 7 km with hills and shit, often even longer runs). a day. This is not a success story.
From the outside, the first thing someone must think is: Is that guy retarded? I didn’t feel stupid doing what I was doing. I obviously felt like fucking shit but there was no stopping in my mind. If someone raised their concern, I didn’t hear them. No one would stop me and I didn’t accept or even was aware of any second opinions.
You are obviously not my 15 year old self! The whole situation is vastly different. I just wanted to say that I maybe understand you with this:
Back then the thought of being lazy killed me.
Well if that story is not relatable at all, don’t worry about it. In that case we can just count it as another story about me and maybe as evidence that I in fact did cardio at some point 
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All very good suggestions! At the moment a little difficult but once gyms open again definitely good. I did incline walking in the past and find it quite effective.
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I’ve actually got a huge list of fairly fat-friendly conditioning ideas I’ve accumulated. Remind me tomorrow (aka Wednesday) to post them here.
With cardio (rather than conditioning) running has been OK for me. Just going slowly. All cardio is OK if you’re happy to be bad at it.
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What language do you speak?
My native language is German. I learned English and Latin (which I obviously don’t speak, haha).
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I have only one thing to say to someone considering signing up to conversational latin classes: caveat emptor.
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I was thinking more Insanus es
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I forgot you probably did latin school.
Jump rope or bodyweight tabata stuff?
I’m going to paraphrase Ronnie Coleman “everyone wants to be strong, but no one wants to recover”. You wouldn’t be vegging out, you’d be allowing your body the time it needs to remodel tissue so that you can grow.
If you committed to strength training 3-4x a week and set a cap on an hour’s worth of low intensity cardio (4 mph/walk) for your off days with one off day being completely off for a month I think you’d be amazed with the results. From there you could up the conditioning gradually.
That’s not a long enough time for you to regress with regards to conditioning and probably not enough to give your body the reprieve that it really needs but it’s better than the alternative. If you could, it’s one month of your time.
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In my line of school education you had to select a second foreign language. Every school has to offer Latin and French (don’t ask why, I have no idea) and the better schools offered additional stuff like Spanish. Well Latin makes no sense at all but I stand by it over French!
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I speak French, it helps learning Spanish a ton and Italian a little. It also helps understand how grammar works in English.
Tried learning Russian at school. Was very bad at it.
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Awesome stuff fellas learning other languages, I did a little French at high school, I can remember Fillet Mignon, that’s about it, just cos they’re tasty.
Our school does Japanese, the kids seem to hate it, haha. A kid in my class from India, speaks 3 languages, and he’s only 10 
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Growing up bi/trilingual is still pretty normal in most parts of the world. One of the big problems growing up in the Anglosphere is not really having/taking that opportunity.
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I know so many programming languages it’s not even funny.
I live next to a multi-language pre-school. It’s amazing. Passing by walking to work I hear groups of kids conversing between one another, each talking their own native tongue, and yet being understood by the others.
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So does Latin as those languages are based on it. Well… If you actually learned Latin that is.
I have a friend from school who completed the most advanced Japanese classes his university had to offer. Why? He wanted to watch Anime without subtitles… Yes he is programmer and computer nerd.
Good thing I was born after 1989 and in western Germany 
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Our young fella does Indonesian. He doesn’t seem to mind
I actually went to a French speaking school in my early teens. Already spoke it when I started, but the end I was properly fluent.
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