So I have stopped doing anything except for occasionally walking slowly in a weighted vest for 30-45 minutes and a couple of stretches. I have stopped strength training exercises and the majority of stretches.

And realized that this is just how it is, that I need structure and outside help for resistance training. Sure, I can go rowing on my own, but I cannot motivate myself to do strength training and I do not know enough about how to do it safely, preventing injury. I am at a heightened risk of injury because I am hyperflexible (flexibility is one good thing that you can have too much of).

My trainer went away in April, saying it would be for three weeks. It ended up being months. She went incommunicado many times. She is now waiting for the sale of her late grandma's house in SoCal. I asked to connect me with a colleague of hers for the time being. She promised to connect me with a friend twice, but it never happened. She still does not give me a timeline for when she will be back.

And I have suddenly and just recently regained 5 lbs. I think this is a warning to me that I need resistance training. So I reached out to several services this morning and ultimately negotiated a package where for three months someone will come to my place to train me three times a week, twice on weekdays and then on sundays, at a price that is only $5/hr more than my, I guess I should now say former, trainer's fee, and much below the advertised prices at other services I corresponded with.

I think I have already waited more than enough, since April, for her. She is now risking my liking someone else so much as to stick with them.

This service with which I have signed an agreement has 15 trainers. So if I do not immediately like the first one they send, they will replace. Out of 15 trainers, hopefully there will be someone I will stick with.

As a free add-on, they offer group classes on Zoom, but I do not like Zoom classes. I am looking for personal training.

I have given it enough time trying to see if I can get this going by myself, and failed.