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Leg Weakness! And how to recover? And success with movement
Neuropathy | Last Active: Feb 28 11:31am | Replies (35)Comment receiving replies
Welcome @howiewine, Movement definitely is medicine! There certainly are days when I don't want to move much but after I get going I feel much better. I try to spend 45 to 60 minutes a day on my elliptical cross trainer and rowing machine. Also, try to do 10 to 15 minutes walking in place on a high density foam block for balance, but I do have to use trekking poles so I don't fall 🙂
How about you? What's your favorite medicine for movement?
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I know I've become a broken record quoting from Twyla Tharp's book "Keep It Moving," but at the risk of quoting her once again, here goes:
"With the time you've got, choose to make your life bigger. Opt for expression over observation, action instead of passivity, risk over safety, the unknown over the familiar. Be deliberate, act with itention. Chase the sublime and the absurd. Make each day one where you emerge, unlock, excite and discover. Find new, reconsider old, become limber, stretch, lean, move … "
Honest to god, taped to my MacBook Pro, I have Tharp's words: EMERGE, UNLOCK, EXCITE, DISCOVER. Seeing and considering those words each morning as I slowly wake up and am still feeling vulnerable, those four words help me find each new day's wherewithal.
Cheers to us all!
Ray (@ray666)