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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'm glad you're back. I had a few of those days this week too - some kind of summer bug, perhaps? Now our weather has cooled, which makes me more ambitious about walking. I already took the opportunity to walk for 10 minutes around the area when I arrived a bit early for hand therapy.
We love those mealtime visits! Hoping my older daughter does her sometimes Friday thing & brings takeout from a favorite Mexican stand.
Sue
Hilarious at first and then oh so beautiful! I needed both to start my days. Thanks and have a safe Labor Day weekend.
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Hi Linda,
You need to walk like I do Linda. I walk until I run out of candy and or cookies. as long as you’re eating candy you’re not gonna care if your back hurts or not. Isn’t there anything they can do for your back. When my back was bothering me I went to a back rehabilitation place and they gave me a bunch of stinking exercises to do but as awful as that experience was I must admit it worked. my back issues are from arthritis and I have arthritis in my hands and neck but it’s not bothering me much now of course I’m not very active either.
Jake
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2 ReactionsFor the first time in quite a while, rather than hauling rocks or bricks, I went for a stroll. Down to the vacant lots to look at the wild blackberry bushes, more like little trees! Laden with ripe berries, we have been picking them a few times a week. Cobblers, coulis, liqueur being made. Up the street to the corner and over to the little creek to check its flow [hardly anything this time of year]. And back. Weather should be fairly warm today, but right now it is gloriously cool.
Ginger
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2 ReactionsI am in. This is just what I need. I have been sedentary for way to long, I need this group.
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1 Reaction@gingerw Oh that stroll sounds lovely
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1 Reaction@deborahfrick123 That is great You will feel so much better .Just start walking say 10 min increase it daily as you read some are up to an hour .Each of us have our own limit just don't push at first and don't overdue later So get moving
Perfect! I’m joining these walks🐢
@fracturedd Great @becsbuddy is the originated of them Some walk everyday I change mine up with chair exercises but @sueinmn is a very good walker I'm sure you,ll read a lot of different post here
I like the idea of chair exercises, I'll do that too.