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Old 10-20-2020, 12:14 AM #1
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I regularly exercise and am curious to how others deal with their exercise routines and setbacks? Whenever I get a setback, I cut down on time and intensity from 30 minutes to 20 minutes and then build myself up again

How do others in this forum treat setbacks when it comes to exercise? Share your ways as I myself have no idea if I'm actually doing the right thing or not.
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What happens if you do not cut your exercise back?

What do you define as a setback?

What triggers your setbacks?
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To be honest, I don't know what happens if I don't cut back. The studies I've looked at when it comes to exercise and new concussions talk about the benefits of a low-impact and light exercise following a concussion. So I'm just kind of following that. But I could also try not cutting back.

It is very hard for me to define a setback, I usually just look at if my symptoms worsen some day and take that as a setback. I am symptomatic 24/7 and my greatest symptoms have to do with visual problems, so it is hard to decide whether I have a setback or not.

Pushing myself too much triggers setbacks. I've received new symptoms from pushing myself too much when it comes to doing things, such as working,, hiking, studying etc. But what confuses me is if new symptoms equal new damage to the brain or if they just randomly appear?
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New symptoms do not mean new damage. You can't cause damage from studying.

You don't say what kind of exercise you are doing. What heart rate target? What exercises?

What symptoms? Be specific, please. Visual symptoms is too generic.
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Interesting topic.
When I was able to start exercising I had to be quite disciplined to not raise my heart rate to high, if I stayed at the upper end for to long it took days to recover.
I had to be content swimming an easy pace which was a lot better than zero exertion for 2 years.
It did take a couple months to arrive at that conclusion.
7 years later there are still certain limits but I'm willing to live with the repercussions, some weight exercises can bother the localized accident area, I believe it is muscular and not neurological.
One of the funny things that I encountered....I couldn't wait to get back to the gym and knew what I wanted to do with weights, remembered all that but the sensations of tired and sore muscles afterwards or lifting to fatigue where foreign, had to relearn those sensations were safe and a normal part of exercise.
Have fun.
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