Excercising for different lifestyles

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Hey guys! I figure we could share our experiences with excercising and limitations here. Maybe we could help one another with what we've discovered out there.

Mods, please feel free to merge if this is redundant.

Due to injury, I do not have the use of my legs. I can only pool excercise with a lifejacket and adult supervision. I am now seriously overweight. Does anyone have suggestions for some hard core cardio excercises that fit my lifestyle? The arm bike burns 26 calories per half hour. Wow. Not cuttin' it at all.

Thanks!
 
You can approach losing weight with two prongs instead of one. Have you considered a permanent change in diet? Sometimes its not how much you eat, but *what* you eat. :twocents:
 
Boy, I can relate. Due to my accident and a second fall....walking is not an option for me. (Dr jokes I should only walk if I am encased in bubble wrap!)
Plus my main artery sticks out with the changes in my arm and I was told if I damage that spot, I will probably bleed out before they can get me to the hospital!
I have been trying to modify some of yoga poses to allow me to get some physical activity...I know it's not much...but it's a start for me.
As far as eating less...I do, but it doesn't seem to help.
 
Exercising and swimming

Just let everyone since I changed seizure meds. and started vitaminst I have lost 30 lbs. this summer it shoked me because I haven't been able to lose weight either being inmobile also but my Dallas Nuero. is getting to also a therapy with physical therapy called aqautic therapy that benefits people like us!
David
 
Therapy is good idea, but not an option for me as my insurance company only allows a TOTAL of 20 pt visits per year. I have already used that up and have to do my own pt on my hand/arm.
I really hate how insurance company knows what is better for me than my docs! (But that is a totally different rant!)
 
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