Balancing burnout and fitness

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Hi - I’m interested in how you keep fit while balancing burnout?

Recently diagnosed autistic, and have 25 years chronic pain with aspects of that likely to be linked to neurodivergence.

I swim as I love it, and also to pain manage.

Swimming has been harder due to recent physical issues… but… I’m now understanding more about my masking and autistic burnout which I often mistook for only being burnout around my physical issues. I work full time, and make adjustments, but sadly it’s not perfect.

Just wondering how you manage as I’m concerned about using up too many spoons of energy to swim, if I need burnout recovery.

Thanks.

I stuggle with self-awareness, so my approach to things like this tend to be largely trial and error and going real slow. Generally, if I start to think that I should get back to upping x or y, then it's generally a good sign that I am. If I'm not, I'll find out soon enough and go back to resting more and hope it didn't set me back too much. But if the one time goes okay, I might try again later in the week or the next week...try that for a bit and if it keeps going alright, keep slowly upping it until I'm where I want to be or think I need to be or whatever. Maybe not great or helpful advice, but it's the best I got.

I have two hernias, one on either side. But, I've had them for over ten years now and they don't interfere with my activities. They have been checked out by three doctors in recent years and when I tell them how long I've had them none of them have suggested surgery.

I tend to ease into activities. I'll do a little at first. Then do more at a later time. I have a lot of stuff and sometimes I need time to find all my stuff to do something. It helps that I'm retired and don't have to rush to do stuff.