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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Many of you living with cancer or an autoimmune disease, like me, deal with daily fatigue. You know that exercise is so important to your health, but it’s so hard. There’s always an excuse: it’s too cold or hot, it’s going to rain or it’s raining, or it’s snowy and icy, or I just don’t want to. I, too, have all these excuses, but I have a new rescue dog who wants to go out and who doesn’t care about my excuses! And I’ve got traction devices for my boots.Now I just need a walking group who will keep me accountable. People who say, ‘let’s go for a walk.'
And I thought: What about my virtual friends on MayoClinicConnect?
Mayo Clinic has an easy 12-week walking program to get us started! Here’s the link:
- Get walking with this 12-week walking schedule https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/get-walking-with-this-12-week-walking-schedule/
So let’s form a virtual walking group. We can agree to walk every day and encourage each other through Connect. We can walk outdoors, in a mall, or in the red center, or in the hallways of our apartment building.
Who’s in? Who’s going to join me?
Come on, Let’s Go Walking!
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i would like to join the group : ) fought tongue cancer 2x been cancer free for 5 1/2 years still go through side effects from treatments need support and encouragement to start exercising again.
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4 ReactionsI definitely think you’ve come to the right place...everyone seems very supportive ...I feel like we are all in this together and we will have each other’s backs.
You have already shown how strong you are to have gone through cancer x2 ...you are going to do just great 👍
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3 Reactions@nanab1219 - I agree with @veganmom, you've already been through some terrible times and are here to tell us about it. I also have had cancer multiple times, 4 to be exact of lung cancer since 1997. I am missing two lobes of my lungs plus damaged tissue from radiation and chemo. Let's show everyone, that if we can do this, and go as far as we can, then we'd love it if everyone would join us!
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4 ReactionsOh Bertha is rearing to go its me who's holding back. I have a very bad case of steroid induced myopathy and am unable to navigate without Bertha. We have a lot of ice and snow this year so getting out doors is difficult but Bertha and I shall loops around the middle of the house for our contribution and I shall go to the pool for water exercise twice a week. If I find I am gaining strength I may try the gym. I was going to the gym when I was cruelly cut down but the way I look at it the only way is up. I bench pressed 100 pounds on my 70th birthday, so if I join this group maybe I shall be able to do something of likeness on my 81st coming next.
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6 Reactions@beachbum80- Hello. By all means, do lapses in your house. And you can't disappoint Bertha! Maybe she'd love some music to help? That's just terrible that the medicine that was supposed to help you made you feel even worse. Prednisone makes me a different person, one my husband would love to do without. It's nasty and I don't know of anyone who loves it. You have such a wonderful, powerful and positive outlook. We need to all be looking up! A very happy birthday, coming up. I'm sure glad that you will be joining us. It's very nice to meet you!
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4 ReactionsI do loops around the house when unable to go to water aerobics. Am now going to try recumbent bike as an alternative once a week.
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4 ReactionsThank you Merry , we are all into this together!
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4 ReactionsSo sorry for your fight with cancer. Cancer is a miserable thing and hits a lot of people. My myopathy is very hard for me to deal with because when I am sitting I feel like I could champion the world until I stand up. I have always been active and to ground to halt as I did is very difficult . But I think this group will be fun to participate in and give me momentum to move on. Life is to valuable to spend it on being glum.
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4 ReactionsWhat a wonderful group we’ve got! And everyone’s ready to get started, some on their feet, some on bikes, and some doing chair exercises. Everything counts, we just have to do some kind of exercise and increase our time by 5minutes a week. We’re a varied, but determined, group of people who have cancer or autoimmune diseases or back problems or or or.... Two of our walking partners even have 4 legs and fur! Take a minute and get to know each other se we’ll be ready to go on Sunday!
Guidelines say to try to exercise 3-4 days a week and not to overdo. Keep a log of your progress and report in every Friday or Saturday and have fun!
Week 1 is March1–7 and 5 minutes of warmup, then 5 minutes of exercise, then 5 minutes of cool down. Let’s go!
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4 Reactions@becsbuddy Im ready our chair exercises are tomorrow so I.ll still start Sunday on our program. We,ll have fun
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