Just about every exercise can be modified. Fortunately, I’ve never been close to 300
pounds, where I couldn’t get up off the floor, once I got down, or didn’t want
to be seen at a gym with all those mirrors, and 18 year olds with hard bodies. However, I did once have an illness that left
me too weak to even get down on the floor, and had a voice that was barely
above a whiskey/cigarette clogged voice box.
Hence, I have some experience that I think might help people.
You have to exercise to be healthy, PERIOD.
You know it.
Make up your mind to just do it.
1.
You can do it privately. No one has to know. Experiment.
So you feel foolish, who knows?
Push yourself.
2.
Walk.
Make numerous trips down to the basement and upstairs. Write down how many times you do it, and do
more the next day.
3.
Go to the supermarket and if you take the
motorized cart, don’t. Use your
walker. If that’s too much, use your
walker for part of the time.
4.
Take chair exercises and other exercises for seniors
at the Senior Center. If you’re not a
senior, make arrangements to take the class.
5.
Pace when you talk on the telephone.
6.
Pace waiting for the microwave.
7.
Drink water—more each day until you’re drinking
6-8 glasses a day.
8.
Dance, hoola hoop, whatever, to music.
9.
Change the furniture around. Clean a room (windows, clean carpets,
upholstery, everything) yourself.
10.
Once you’ve dropped a size, cleaned a room, you’ll
feel good. So good in fact that you’ll
want to keep up this modified activity.
You may even feel like modifying this modified plan.
Persevere. Half a pound
a week is fine. That’s 26 pounds a
year. That is sensible, healthy and
doable.
What have you got to lose? Yeah, right.
