Daily walk, morning stretches, maybe fling a heavy backpack around for 5 minutes or so, and a balanced diet, and you’re golden.
Bingo.
Yes, you can bulk further with a gym, or if you’re significantly overweight (as the majority of Americans, at least, are), more strenuous excersise can be an important part of getting to a healthy baseline.
But the vast majority of people have no real need for constantly working out. Not saying its just flat out bad or should be abolished or anything like that… but in most cases, for most people its overkill… and then you also have to factor in that if you don’t know what you are doing, you can seriously injure yourself.
A reasonable weekly stretching and workout and cardio routine, and perhaps most importantly, an actually healthy diet… blam, you’ve extended your lifespan by something like 10 years, minimum.
… I am currently crippled and have been doing PT for over a year now. It is fucking painful, but it is working, and well… I’ve already got the diet part figured out, and I can’t wait to be able to return to what was previously my normal, daily, light stretching and workout routine.
IANAD, but according to my doctor the PT (on your own at home) is permanent. 😩 I keep thinking it’s a lie and I’ll be fine skipping it if I’m active, and then wind up on another round of prednisone so that I can actually walk.
Not to discourage you, the PT definitely gets less painful! And if they say you don’t have to keep it up then I’d listen to them. But basically don’t be me and think you can cheat on PT after finishing in person appointments, lol.
I mean, you’re not wrong, but I have been improving significantly… and my PT routine literally is a bunch of stretchs and excercises, just targetting specific muscle groups… which are regaining function.
I know I will need to keep up with these, I’m just trying to say that I am almost at the point where I can get back to my normal routine of walking and more involved stretches and such.
Basically, I have astoundingly severe tendonitis in about half my body, but … seemingly no permanent, completely unrecoverable injuries?
If possible, avoid becoming homeless and then walking 2000 miles in 9 months. Do not recommend, 0 stars out of 5.
But uh, none of the tendons or muscles seem to be utterly torn apart, and my bone fractures have since healed. I got basically my entire body xrayed once I finally managed to set up a new bank account and health insurancd.
I haven’t like… lost a limb, or suffered irrecoverable nerve damage… and I know I will almost certainly never 100% get back to normal…
But if I ‘have to’ keep up with routine PT, thats fine, I’m trying to say that I look forward to that, to being able to do the same excersises with less and less pain, and then be able to get back to my normal ‘PT’ / excersize routine.
I used to do Karate, did it for 10+ years, have a black belt… I am no stranger to regular physical activity and pain, lol.
Bingo.
Yes, you can bulk further with a gym, or if you’re significantly overweight (as the majority of Americans, at least, are), more strenuous excersise can be an important part of getting to a healthy baseline.
But the vast majority of people have no real need for constantly working out. Not saying its just flat out bad or should be abolished or anything like that… but in most cases, for most people its overkill… and then you also have to factor in that if you don’t know what you are doing, you can seriously injure yourself.
A reasonable weekly stretching and workout and cardio routine, and perhaps most importantly, an actually healthy diet… blam, you’ve extended your lifespan by something like 10 years, minimum.
… I am currently crippled and have been doing PT for over a year now. It is fucking painful, but it is working, and well… I’ve already got the diet part figured out, and I can’t wait to be able to return to what was previously my normal, daily, light stretching and workout routine.
IANAD, but according to my doctor the PT (on your own at home) is permanent. 😩 I keep thinking it’s a lie and I’ll be fine skipping it if I’m active, and then wind up on another round of prednisone so that I can actually walk.
Not to discourage you, the PT definitely gets less painful! And if they say you don’t have to keep it up then I’d listen to them. But basically don’t be me and think you can cheat on PT after finishing in person appointments, lol.
I mean, you’re not wrong, but I have been improving significantly… and my PT routine literally is a bunch of stretchs and excercises, just targetting specific muscle groups… which are regaining function.
I know I will need to keep up with these, I’m just trying to say that I am almost at the point where I can get back to my normal routine of walking and more involved stretches and such.
Basically, I have astoundingly severe tendonitis in about half my body, but … seemingly no permanent, completely unrecoverable injuries?
If possible, avoid becoming homeless and then walking 2000 miles in 9 months. Do not recommend, 0 stars out of 5.
But uh, none of the tendons or muscles seem to be utterly torn apart, and my bone fractures have since healed. I got basically my entire body xrayed once I finally managed to set up a new bank account and health insurancd.
I haven’t like… lost a limb, or suffered irrecoverable nerve damage… and I know I will almost certainly never 100% get back to normal…
But if I ‘have to’ keep up with routine PT, thats fine, I’m trying to say that I look forward to that, to being able to do the same excersises with less and less pain, and then be able to get back to my normal ‘PT’ / excersize routine.
I used to do Karate, did it for 10+ years, have a black belt… I am no stranger to regular physical activity and pain, lol.
I was in a wheel chair a year ago.
Now I can get around with a cane.