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Let’s Go Walking! Join me for a virtual walking support group
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Dec 17, 2023 | Replies (4297)Comment receiving replies
I want to walk more! I tried a zoom walking program this summer but the schedule didn’t work for me at all and added stress. That tells me I need flexibility in my approach. I’m fortunate to have indoor hallways to walk in plus outdoor sidewalks.
I walk some every day but want to build walking strength. I have an ankle, hip, and knee replacement, and osteoarthritis, all of which slow me down at times. I need to consider my goals and consider how to be more consistent with walking.
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@loll you’re off to a good start! I wonder if several short sessions with physical therapy would help you get started. They would help you strengthen your muscles and make sure you are treating your joints correctly.
Can you call your doctor today for a referral to PT?
This is what I've done pretty much all my life: Reach often maximal limit for the fun of it -- finding u can do do all 13 floors in the building in a 80 yr old frame I feel no regrets -- but I probably wouldn't if mishaps in life prevented me. What matters t o me is whether I am in Good Enough shape to carry out the purpose I've in my life. A purpose beyond being super fit -- or super cool or famous or whatever. It's my life purpose that dictates for me that I stay in 'reasonably' for my LIFE aims in good health and fitness. It is this that gets me 'moving' when one kind of activity closes its doors and I almost always find out another: Rainy all day? Walk around carpet, do air soccer kicks hard enough that my other foot goes a bit in the air (truly, my heart beat goes up quickly) Often doing dips in stairwell come handy, even pulling body up off top rails. No One has wrote or told me; our mind seems to work when there is desire - certainly in my case. Hope you get around your hitches to be where u wish to be!
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Good for you. Any and all walking are great, and every little bit counts - it doesn't need to be 30 minutes at a time.
My Mom had your whole list of issues but was determined to stay active. Also, pain kept her form walking 30 minutes at a time, so here is what she did -
After breakfast, she walked the length of her apartment building hallway (about a block).
Before lunch if the weather was nice, she and a friend would walk around their block together.
If she wasn't going out that day, she would repeat her hallway walk once or twice more.
On grocery day (with my sister or me) she would use the grocery cart to walk up and down as many aisles as she could.
This got her at least a mile and a half of walking, a little bit at a time.
Often my life "tips over" because of pain/fatigue, and on those days I have been known to just walk around my little cul de sac three or four times. Today my walking will be limited to yard chores, and a few hours this evening staffing a booth at a community festival. I bet by then end of the day I will have walked 2 miles - I'll let you know.
Sue