I was just wondering if anyone has a daily routine they follow regarding to exercise? I’m wondering if I should actually have set times for exercise to ensure that I do it as I’m finding that I’m becoming a bit lazy!
Thanks
I received very welcome advice from John Hambly at the Samson Centre in Guildford. He said that members in the gym found that the best thing to do was never to push it and to stop when you start sweating! I was shocked as I’d always liked to really push myself but his advice has been really good for me. I stop before I get too tired now. If I push myself I suffer for it!
The easiest way to develop a new habit is to attach it to something you already do. So I always exercise as soon as I get up so without thinking as soon as my feet hit the floor, my body just goes to where I exercise without me even having to think. It doesn’t need to be then, but if you want to make it a habit, find an existing one and attach exercise to it. You get up everyday, you may return from walking the dog every day etc etc.
Good luck with it
Dear LouiseJ
This does not strictly speaking answer your question but is connected on a a broader footing, which is that if you’ve been doing Yoga on for a long time and have tried many different varieties of it you gain an insight or incline into how one day, and it is only recently it its spreading in the Western Worlds - it ill slot into a a routine where by at exactly the same time all over the world the same excercise is performed - and that some empiric dream we all work towards fulfilling and even if unknowingly and I was wondering if there is a similar desire among MS patients to do your exercises at exactly the same time .
And something says those adhering to driving towards this oneness never tire or get bored with yoga and those working towards it can.
Same in MS, if you can share that time spent on exercise great if you can’t less so, and now it is fantastic you are asking people about their daily routine.
Other than that depending on how severe your disability is you might be drawn to exercise by differing degrees of enthusiasm through out your MS and it also depends on the associations you are building in your ordinary life whether the encouragement is for more excess case or more forgiving manner for less exercise. and whilst we all agree more exercise is better , more forgiving ways approaches for loosing the kick are even better
I find that I need to exercise first thing. Sets me up for the day while I still have the energy and motivation.
I have to have my morning bath first of all. That helps ease my muscles, and slowly wakes me up. Then do the most essential chores in my house - like yesterday’s washing up, whilst I still have the energy. I’m trying to do a proper physio / massage session every other day. That usually happens next. Then later on in the day I go for a walk, or do some gardening. Because the walking is really hard work, I have to be motivated - and that means going somewhere interesting! I do botanical recording, and that takes my attention away from how slow and hard work my legs are! It can take me quite a while deciding where I’m going to go - I spend a lot of time looking at maps! And then have to match it to my fatigue levels. When I get back home I’m often too fatigued to do anything physical. Sometimes too tired to stand and make myself an evening meal. And I certainly don’t do the washing up afterwards!
Hi I do yoga/Pilates everyday and since I have been doing it my walk is so much better,I also try to keep moving most of the day because if I relax too long I start to fall asleep then I feel terrible and I try to go outside every day, it is different for everyone but for me I have to push myself every day
I love a list. Sometimes the promise of that tiny dopamine hit as I cross an action off that list is the thing that decides whether I can be bothered to do the thing or not. But we’re all different, and you are the one with access to the User Manual on how you work!
I don’t exercise, but I have found that following a normal daily routine makes an enormous difference in how my MS affects me. If I decide to not follow the pattern that works best for me, I wind up paying for it later in the day and the ones following.
No routine due to unpredictability of how I’ll be in the morning. I do walk the dog clockwork every 4 hrs, regardless of how I feel, with the distance varying depending on that. Also, on good days, I book a swim session at the local pool early as possible and get a km in, it surprisingly makes me feel much better in the day, unfortunately like others mention, I have to do any physical things as early as possible, as my energy level declines extremely rapidly as the day goes on.