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In a world full of major accomplishments, today held, by comparison, a small victory for me. It has been five, long and trying months since my surgery last fall, with its debilitating post-surgical complications and infections.
Today marks my first day of training, and working myself back to fitness.
Anyone who wishes to (though I don’t know why anyone would really want to) can search for and find my previous postings about all that illness stuff by using the search engine. I will simply say that up until the last 4 weeks, I thought that there would be serious and permanent systemic damage with no real hope of regaining back my health and fitness. Things felt bleak and hopeless. Thank God and family that I have been able to progress past all of that.
I will periodically post what I am doing and how I am progressing so that any who are concerned about starting a fitness program from a negative health impact, can look in and perhaps be encouraged to follow suit.
Caution: If any one thinks to use what I am personally doing believing that it is a good 'model’ for getting back into shape, forget it. It is ONLY an example. What I post may act as a helpful benchmark of comparisons, but all I can be assured of is that what I am doing is only good for me; I do NOT know if it would also be good for you. I know how my body is reacting to what I do, I do not know the same about anyone else.
First bit of advice: Always get clearance by your Provider before starting any change from your normal daily routine regarding increases in exercise and activity from a current baseline. At the very least, call the provider to inform them of your change.
This is also why you should not consider what I am doing as an ideal model; I will let my provider know what I am doing via email, and I could give a flying fig how she feels about what I am doing. Hostility? Oh. . . just a wee tad; I hold her somewhat responsible for where I am at today because of her delay in responding to my report of early symptoms from a year ago. I stick with her because 98% of her care model is excellent. I just trust my own gut and assessment of my fitness and risk levels more than hers.
So, for today:
Hardware: Fitbit Ionic; Water bottle; Treadmill (with a carefully calibrated 30% incline/10% decline and speed), Hoka One One Bondi 6 (from Camino Frances last fall), Smartwool Merino Phd light padded socks, sweatpants, and REI long sleeved Sahara T-shirt.
Software: Water and 1 energy gel packet
Workout: Embarrassingly easy for me pre-surgery, but a bit of a bear today. 30 minutes at an 8% incline at 2.5 miles per hour for 30 minutes. 10 minutes at a 4% incline at 2 mph and then 1.5 mph for cool down.
Total miles: About 1.3 total. Elevation gain: about 500 feet.
That’s it. It feels discouragingly simple, but it pegged my peak heart rate to 137 bpm. As a comparison, last year it wouldn’t have raised my heart rate to more than 82 bpm. So it is going take a bit of time to crawl back to where I was. I should have a guess as to how quickly I can progress a the end of the next 14 days.
Bottom line for today: It feels like a small victory. I have forced myself to begin again.
Today marks my first day of training, and working myself back to fitness.
Anyone who wishes to (though I don’t know why anyone would really want to) can search for and find my previous postings about all that illness stuff by using the search engine. I will simply say that up until the last 4 weeks, I thought that there would be serious and permanent systemic damage with no real hope of regaining back my health and fitness. Things felt bleak and hopeless. Thank God and family that I have been able to progress past all of that.
I will periodically post what I am doing and how I am progressing so that any who are concerned about starting a fitness program from a negative health impact, can look in and perhaps be encouraged to follow suit.
Caution: If any one thinks to use what I am personally doing believing that it is a good 'model’ for getting back into shape, forget it. It is ONLY an example. What I post may act as a helpful benchmark of comparisons, but all I can be assured of is that what I am doing is only good for me; I do NOT know if it would also be good for you. I know how my body is reacting to what I do, I do not know the same about anyone else.
First bit of advice: Always get clearance by your Provider before starting any change from your normal daily routine regarding increases in exercise and activity from a current baseline. At the very least, call the provider to inform them of your change.
This is also why you should not consider what I am doing as an ideal model; I will let my provider know what I am doing via email, and I could give a flying fig how she feels about what I am doing. Hostility? Oh. . . just a wee tad; I hold her somewhat responsible for where I am at today because of her delay in responding to my report of early symptoms from a year ago. I stick with her because 98% of her care model is excellent. I just trust my own gut and assessment of my fitness and risk levels more than hers.
So, for today:
Hardware: Fitbit Ionic; Water bottle; Treadmill (with a carefully calibrated 30% incline/10% decline and speed), Hoka One One Bondi 6 (from Camino Frances last fall), Smartwool Merino Phd light padded socks, sweatpants, and REI long sleeved Sahara T-shirt.
Software: Water and 1 energy gel packet
Workout: Embarrassingly easy for me pre-surgery, but a bit of a bear today. 30 minutes at an 8% incline at 2.5 miles per hour for 30 minutes. 10 minutes at a 4% incline at 2 mph and then 1.5 mph for cool down.
Total miles: About 1.3 total. Elevation gain: about 500 feet.
That’s it. It feels discouragingly simple, but it pegged my peak heart rate to 137 bpm. As a comparison, last year it wouldn’t have raised my heart rate to more than 82 bpm. So it is going take a bit of time to crawl back to where I was. I should have a guess as to how quickly I can progress a the end of the next 14 days.
Bottom line for today: It feels like a small victory. I have forced myself to begin again.
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