Not as easy as it looks
I was watching “Better Half” last night. The spouses were personal trainers & they had to teach their husbands how to teach a fitness class. It was absurd trying to watch these novices come up with their own work out routine. It really drove home just how useful a personal trainer can be & that they have such a difficult job. Socalworkout.com can even help with Orange County weight loss . I really like that this personal trainer is also a life coach & a nutrition expert.
We all know that we are supposed to exercise. This is really driven home by all of my doctors. I know that exercise will increase my mobility but let’s face it, with fibromyalgia it just hurts. I don’t really know what I’m doing. For instance, I would love to have toned arms. People always say “Oh, it’s so easy, just lift weights”. So I try to lift weights & either nothing happens or I hurt myself. Needless to say, I’ve never gotten toned arms.
I’ve never even been to a real gym. I’ve tried to watch videos & read books about the correct ways to exercise, but I haven’t really found anything that works for me. Yes, I tried to read a book about exercising. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading, but it was just really difficult to get motivated from a book. Plus, I couldn’t understand what it was trying to say. I really ran a risk of hurting my muscles. That’s why I think it would be worth the money to have a personal trainer, it’s safer & more effective. I could finally learn the right way to exercise, & hopefully come up with a plan that will work with my fibromyalgia. Does anyone have any experiences with personal trainers? Working out isn’t as easy as it looks, especially if you have fibromyalgia, so it might be worth it to get some help.
Filed under: Fibromyalgia Information on October 25th, 2007
I’ve never found a personal trainer who REALLY knew about FM. I’ ve had a couple of good PTs, and there are some good videos coming out. There’s one by Sarah Bates, OT, who has FM herself. It’s a yoga video, excellent to start with, called “Yoga for Healing.” Imho, the best site to tell people with FM how to exercise is on myalgia.com. There are several pages with good exercise stuff, and exercise DVDs just for people with FM, but I think the very best of the best is the article “A Fibromyalgia Patient’s Guide to Exercise” by Sharon R. Clark, PhD. This woman actually studies people w/FM and exercise. That’s what she does for a living. She says we need to start with stretching, then when we’re ready start some strength work, THEN when we’re ready start some mild aerobics. That makes so much sense to me. Everyone else is telling me to start with aerobics, and mild or not I just hurt myself and then am worse off than before for awhile.
I’ve found a lot of trainers out there (most of them) who say they know about FM, but none of them really did. If you”re lucky they won’t blame you when they cause you to get hurt. I’ve been referring my health care team members to the Dr.Clark article and so far they just look at me like I’m being mildly offensive. Pfft. I’ll be glad when they catch up with the current research.
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I agree with the above comment. Really gentle yoga is helpful, with a lot of meditation and no “pretzel” poses. I like the stretching DVD from myalgia.com, and I agree that the Dr. Clark article is the best I’ve read. I also mailed the article to a PT guy I was working with and he really just didn’t get it.
I went to the Oregan Health Sciences University fibro clinic (where Dr. Clark works). I saw a PT woman there. She said she is not big on strength training, because too many people get injured and are set back on their goals. Gentle and frequent stretching, plus aerobic exercise (walking is great) is the best.
See my blog for a summary of Dr. Clark’s article.
http://www.fibroinfoservice.com
I do agree with you. I have not found any trainer yet. But thank you.
I do agree with you. I liked the comment. Everything can be understood at the time of doing not by saying.
Cool to see someones talking about me. Exercise definitely helps with all kinds of medical problems…but I don’t think it’s for everybody. I’ll have to check out that “better half” show sometime for sure, as a trainer I eat up all that stuff
Thanks for the post!
hi, Actually aerobics & yoga can help you a lot . You should try yoga , But make sure once if you start you should do it religiously then only it would effect you.
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