MS sometimes makes it hard to keep moving, exercising, stretching, so we do less and less. Before long, its not just MS that interferes with our mobility and health, its also atrophy of muscle causing more balance problems and more muscle weakness.

So, we started a Club to support and encourage us to keep moving --You use it or you lose it! So, what do you do-- do you stretch, do you walk, shovel snow, swim, aquacise, isometrics, lift free weights, Wii,calisthenics? Please join the club.

I swim a mile a day. In 2004, I was so weak, I could not walk across a room. Now I swim a mile every single day and I do free weights twice weekly to help with osteoporosis prevention. Cherie (clinical1) was able to stop using her w/c after she religiously worked on a pool based stretch/exercise routine daily. If you want to try her routines, go to the following link and read how to do it:

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/...t=80565&page=8



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wow March is here, wow....
nice though, easier to get out walking as sometimes not as chilly willy here.
still have been taking it easy since that week of vertigo though... nervous about doign yoga... hugs

One horse ride only today. Too windy for the spookydooky one. There's lions in the air when there's more than a breeze.
Other than that, sat on my behind all afternoon.

Well last week was a tough week...had a stomach flu that kept me confined to the house for Monday and Tuesday and left me weaving when I walked on Wednesday. Then Thursday morning, I had a basal cell carcinoma taken off of my nose, which left me with 11 stitches down the length of my nose and a bandage that made me look like a rhinoceros.

So I took it easy last week...no spin classes and no riding until Sunday. Saturday, I drove the support car for the rest of the team while they did a 57 mile route in the hills and wind.

Sunday morning I went out and worked a sign-in table for a group ride, then jumped on my bike after all 1000 or so had already pulled out, and chased down as many as I could catch. I caught my fair share of them over 38 miles at 17.3 mph, but the wind the last 10 miles really took it out of me. I was glad to be done...

That's great txbatman that you could exercise with all that medical stuff going on !

Hi Sabi, good to see you moving around.

Hi pud: its good to see you back again.

I swam a mile today: cold water, cold air.

So sorry TX for your Flu battle and operation. What a trooper you are.

I hope you feel 100% soon.

10 hours at work today,and sat down once, for 10 min maybe... that is enough for me... in spasm pain... uggggg hugsss though all, sarah

I did ten minutes of dancing this morning for aerobics. I plan to do more tomorrow. Maybe some Pilates...

Thats a lot of work sabi-- ten hours would fry my body.

Good job ewiz.

I swam a mile today: 30 mph wind, 73 air temp-- twas a nice swim. Might be too cold to swim tomorrow before work unfortunately.

I put in 15 minutes on the elliptical this morning. I went fast and a high level too, maybe too high! My legs got tired at work today! My pulse was up to 155 (which is high for me.)

Tomorrow is my day off so I'll try to get my 40 minutes of Pilates in. That will give my legs a day off too. No standing at work or elliptical for the day. It's amazingly hard to stand all day long sometimes but not as hard as I thought it would be.