4 Join us Walking, Swimming, Cycling, Weights, Paddling, Jogging and get SURVIVAL BOOST

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  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    Wednesday
    Ok have to do a couple entries here as I've been slack on responding. Wednesday did 10,500 steps on treadmill.

    Kim
  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    Thursday
    Treadmill and walking 11,000 steps. Been trying to keep busy.

    Kim
  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    Golfing
    Husband took the cart, but I'll usually walk the 9 holes so that's what happened today. Didn't do treadmill today because of golf. I'll give walking tally tomorrow once the pedomiter is read for the day. Did terrible on golf and we joined another two some and told them how bad I'm at golfing but they said join them anyway. Poor guys, probably talked about me all the way home :) Had fun though.

    Kim
  • Kathleen808
    Kathleen808 Member Posts: 2,342 Member
    Stand up paddling
    **** and I went stand up paddling today and **** took our dog Duke with us. Duke gained confidence after awhile. It was great being on the water and getting some exercise. For those interested Good Morning America had our neighborhood, Lanikai, on today for one of the 10 most beautiful places in America. If you watch the clip you can see the place we stand up paddle, boat and snorkel. (Pete I think you'd love diving here!)

    http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/beautiful-places-lanikai-beach-grand-teton-14289409

    Aloha,
    Kathleen

    Kim I love that you are counting your steps! Keep moving!
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    thanks lauragb
    our dogs are our best friends. getting healthy before surgery i did, it helped me, my cancer op was successful. i lost 20 kg between june2010 and 7oct2010. my surgeon did not did through heaps of fat. fat is a risk factor in surgeries. i lost another 12kg in hospital in the 14 days without food,not fun. the weight loss was muacle and fat.

    great tohave you post, walk your beautiful dogs and be healthy.

    come onboard and help me motivate others, they need it. oh so do some good and boost our chances personally. thats a win win win.

    hugs,
    pete

    Will try to do some swimming pools today but too tired to me
    last time had to rest most of the afternoon!, we will see!
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    Golfing
    Husband took the cart, but I'll usually walk the 9 holes so that's what happened today. Didn't do treadmill today because of golf. I'll give walking tally tomorrow once the pedomiter is read for the day. Did terrible on golf and we joined another two some and told them how bad I'm at golfing but they said join them anyway. Poor guys, probably talked about me all the way home :) Had fun though.

    Kim

    Hahahahahaha! Kim I'm sure you are better than you say!
    Hugs!
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    pepebcn said:

    Will try to do some swimming pools today but too tired to me
    last time had to rest most of the afternoon!, we will see!

    just rest and heal
    That's why I knew were crook, no posts.
    Just rest, save your energy for healing.
    Hugs,
    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    new physio rehab routine needed before serious gym workouts
    new physio rehab routine needed before serious gym workouts

    Not much exercising being reported on this post, oh well thats life. I hope its being done anyway. I have have been exercising since diagnosis 3jun2010. Its just dawned on me that as most recurrances occur within the first couple of years, maybe that the best time to commit to a walking program that delivers 27 mets a week. The more recently diagnosed have a unique window to improve their survival by walking. I have put this as a new post.

    another 8 mets on the treadmill at the gym and serious stretching and core strengthening started.

    Had first consult with physio who works out of the fitness first gym where i have been walking and doing a few classes. I have stopped classes for a week still walking and am following a core muscle strength rehabilitation program to help with some basic stretches for leg, butt and stomach muscles.

    I have added a Reminder to stretch and get medical advice before attempting any exercise to the start of this post.

    Did a great walk on the treadmill while meditating, yes its possible to do both.

    My routine is now 5 minute warmup on cycle, 20 minutes of stretches, 40 minutes on the treadmill and 5 minutes of stretches. The intense stretches will only be for 5 days to gain strength in my core, prior to

    I uploaded a video with physio comments about stretching and walking, search utube for pete43lost_at_sea if you want to see the rehab stretches.
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    its a lovelly morning off for a 40 minute walk to the shops
    At the shops my wife and I and about 25 other cancer survivors and their partners are going to a day retreat run by petria king, it should be a wonderful day. I have had my juic and supplements and walking with my chinese tea.

    I hope everyone has a great day and get 8 mets or a solid hours walking in.

    hugs,
    pete
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    its a lovelly morning off for a 40 minute walk to the shops
    At the shops my wife and I and about 25 other cancer survivors and their partners are going to a day retreat run by petria king, it should be a wonderful day. I have had my juic and supplements and walking with my chinese tea.

    I hope everyone has a great day and get 8 mets or a solid hours walking in.

    hugs,
    pete

    Not alone in the post Pete here i'm , been on the beach for
    hours not huge exercise but just walking a little swimming many times and resting must be quite healthy isn't ?.
    Hugs mates just exercise!
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    pepebcn said:

    Not alone in the post Pete here i'm , been on the beach for
    hours not huge exercise but just walking a little swimming many times and resting must be quite healthy isn't ?.
    Hugs mates just exercise!

    thats great pepe
    the treadmill was tedious today the 40 min was like 40 hours. even the stretching took 30 minutes was a challenge.

    still a wonderful positive day, lovelly healthy lunch. an amazing talk by petria king, a real inspirational cancer survivor whose mission is to help cancer patients.

    welcome back, enjoy the sun vitamin D.

    hugs,
    pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    off to the gym
    I hope everyone gets a chance to walk today.
    checkout this new research.
    http://csn.cancer.org/node/224609

    hugs,

    Pete
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    off to the gym for a walk and a stretch
    a bit sad today as my friend athol with lung cancer died in hospital last night, the end came really fast thank god.

    walking is easy when your surrounded by all the deaths here and in real life.

    i see my onc for blood test results this afternoon at 2pm.

    i wonder if my walking nbotice will be up on the notice board.

    hugs,
    pete
  • northernlites
    northernlites Member Posts: 96

    off to the gym for a walk and a stretch
    a bit sad today as my friend athol with lung cancer died in hospital last night, the end came really fast thank god.

    walking is easy when your surrounded by all the deaths here and in real life.

    i see my onc for blood test results this afternoon at 2pm.

    i wonder if my walking nbotice will be up on the notice board.

    hugs,
    pete

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about your friend. Hope your tests results were good. I went walking today with my daughter. What a wonderful walk!

    ~tessa~
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about your friend. Hope your tests results were good. I went walking today with my daughter. What a wonderful walk!

    ~tessa~

    Spoken to my oncologist , confirmed that is absolutely necessary
    to walk every day at least half an hour in fast rhythm to activate an enzyme that prevents cancer!.Not running but fast jogging !
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    pepebcn said:

    Spoken to my oncologist , confirmed that is absolutely necessary
    to walk every day at least half an hour in fast rhythm to activate an enzyme that prevents cancer!.Not running but fast jogging !

    I love you pepe
    Dear Pepe,
    I also meet with my oncologist yesterday, she gave me the best news about all my blood tests. I am feeling pleased with all the effort I am putting into this soon to be 45 year old body.

    any she said for me to back off, and never tell anyone that you must do this and you must do that. she beleives walking is generally good advice, but thats it. the 53% that I have read, the studies around the world are not evidence in her books. so i respect her, her experience. I even printed and showed her the vitamin d news you posted recently. she was also not impressed.

    but now I am off chemo, i am my own man, responsible for my body, making my own decisions. I choose to have faith in the research and walk and take vitamin D.

    I did tell her I reserved the website umustwalk.com, she chuckled as its exactly what she said I should not do. I can still use the name umustwalk.com but will change it to be purely my message for myself, based on my research. I am so glad you have motivated me, hopefully we motivate each other.

    dammit whats the downside, we get healthy, whats the upside we live!!!!!
    gee what a hard question ?
    But its the 53% number that I focus on, you see I need that number to get my fat arse moving. oh guess what, its now a skinny arse. Only got about 9 kg to goto and all the fat from the last 25 years of unhealthy living will have been burned off, peed, pood or sweaed away.

    One day soon, we should have another post about the future on medicine and the internet and what focused patients like ourselves can achieve.

    just compare and contrast the differences between our two onc opinions. We live in wonderful and challenging times. What can we achieve with each day, is foremost in my mind, I am not sure where my passion will take me, but I know it will be interesting.

    The absence of our friendly Americans joining this post, has to be honest always intregued me. But to be honest I am challenged enough to myself and my family healthy. Just by posting we flag this issue and invite anyone to post what exercise they are doing.

    Of course I would be so happy to have a daily exercise post, with 100 posts in it.
    Now that would be an achievement, and a starting point. I can dream, can't I.

    so for now its really still just a few, to be honest that fine. walking is optional, the research has been highlighted and its everyones decision inconjunction with their doctors.

    But still I feel, we are being over medicated, my onc mentioned she would not give someone a walking prescription, only a referral to a physiotherapist, as walking is not her specialty.

    I had my second meeting with my physiotherapist this morning. I now have some more advanced machine based exercises to primarly work on my core abdominal muscles. I got to do this for a couple of weeks. the physio let me video the session and I can put it on youtube.

    My wife also joined up at our gym for a year, which is amazing and unexpected. its great motivation to have someone to train with, the treadmil can be tedious.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps I hope everyone well enough starts walking, whats the downside risk ? blisters or being bitten by a dog! The upside well, ain't life grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about

    Hi Pete,
    sorry to hear about your friend. Hope your tests results were good. I went walking today with my daughter. What a wonderful walk!

    ~tessa~

    thanks tessa
    I am relieved my fried died fast, he was in agony. He was a lovelly kind man, my wife was especially close to him.

    I am glad you had a wonderful walk and the company of your daughter.

    I had a challenging walk, I kept on up the treadmill speed, I got up to 7km/hour with a 15 degree incline. I was sweating like the rain.

    thanks so much for posting, I get lonely here sometimes.
    you are a very good example for your entire country.

    bye the way, what country do you live in again ?

    hugs,
    Pete
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member

    I love you pepe
    Dear Pepe,
    I also meet with my oncologist yesterday, she gave me the best news about all my blood tests. I am feeling pleased with all the effort I am putting into this soon to be 45 year old body.

    any she said for me to back off, and never tell anyone that you must do this and you must do that. she beleives walking is generally good advice, but thats it. the 53% that I have read, the studies around the world are not evidence in her books. so i respect her, her experience. I even printed and showed her the vitamin d news you posted recently. she was also not impressed.

    but now I am off chemo, i am my own man, responsible for my body, making my own decisions. I choose to have faith in the research and walk and take vitamin D.

    I did tell her I reserved the website umustwalk.com, she chuckled as its exactly what she said I should not do. I can still use the name umustwalk.com but will change it to be purely my message for myself, based on my research. I am so glad you have motivated me, hopefully we motivate each other.

    dammit whats the downside, we get healthy, whats the upside we live!!!!!
    gee what a hard question ?
    But its the 53% number that I focus on, you see I need that number to get my fat arse moving. oh guess what, its now a skinny arse. Only got about 9 kg to goto and all the fat from the last 25 years of unhealthy living will have been burned off, peed, pood or sweaed away.

    One day soon, we should have another post about the future on medicine and the internet and what focused patients like ourselves can achieve.

    just compare and contrast the differences between our two onc opinions. We live in wonderful and challenging times. What can we achieve with each day, is foremost in my mind, I am not sure where my passion will take me, but I know it will be interesting.

    The absence of our friendly Americans joining this post, has to be honest always intregued me. But to be honest I am challenged enough to myself and my family healthy. Just by posting we flag this issue and invite anyone to post what exercise they are doing.

    Of course I would be so happy to have a daily exercise post, with 100 posts in it.
    Now that would be an achievement, and a starting point. I can dream, can't I.

    so for now its really still just a few, to be honest that fine. walking is optional, the research has been highlighted and its everyones decision inconjunction with their doctors.

    But still I feel, we are being over medicated, my onc mentioned she would not give someone a walking prescription, only a referral to a physiotherapist, as walking is not her specialty.

    I had my second meeting with my physiotherapist this morning. I now have some more advanced machine based exercises to primarly work on my core abdominal muscles. I got to do this for a couple of weeks. the physio let me video the session and I can put it on youtube.

    My wife also joined up at our gym for a year, which is amazing and unexpected. its great motivation to have someone to train with, the treadmil can be tedious.

    hugs,
    Pete

    ps I hope everyone well enough starts walking, whats the downside risk ? blisters or being bitten by a dog! The upside well, ain't life grand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Hahaha PETE good post!
    It seems that certain muscle makes the body to secrete those enzymes ,I don't remember the name of the enzymes but will ask my onc.again ,so, then you will be able to discuss it with your onc!.
    Hugs Mate! Hey American friends let's go to Walk together !.
  • northernlites
    northernlites Member Posts: 96

    thanks tessa
    I am relieved my fried died fast, he was in agony. He was a lovelly kind man, my wife was especially close to him.

    I am glad you had a wonderful walk and the company of your daughter.

    I had a challenging walk, I kept on up the treadmill speed, I got up to 7km/hour with a 15 degree incline. I was sweating like the rain.

    thanks so much for posting, I get lonely here sometimes.
    you are a very good example for your entire country.

    bye the way, what country do you live in again ?

    hugs,
    Pete

    Hi Pete,
    I live in the U.S.

    Hi Pete,
    I live in the U.S. in New England. I saw my doc today and discussed the walking issue with him. He said walking would help my muscle cramps and aches I have had since my surgery. He said I have lost so much muscle mass and it would take time for me to regain it again. He also told me to drink ENSURE. It is a vitamin drink made here in the u.s. Tastes almost like a chocolate milkshake. My only trouble now is I can't sleep at night because of the muscle aches all over my body.

    Glad your wife is joining you at the gym. I will keep walking!!!!!!!!!!!

    Tessa
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member

    Hi Pete,
    I live in the U.S.

    Hi Pete,
    I live in the U.S. in New England. I saw my doc today and discussed the walking issue with him. He said walking would help my muscle cramps and aches I have had since my surgery. He said I have lost so much muscle mass and it would take time for me to regain it again. He also told me to drink ENSURE. It is a vitamin drink made here in the u.s. Tastes almost like a chocolate milkshake. My only trouble now is I can't sleep at night because of the muscle aches all over my body.

    Glad your wife is joining you at the gym. I will keep walking!!!!!!!!!!!

    Tessa

    thanks tessa, interesting what your doctor said
    dear tessa,

    not like pepe's onc advice who reaffirmed the walking studies i have faith in, its just interesting to see how and where these studies gain traction. its great your getting medical advice, the cramps sound bad. i hope the ensure helps. i have it here left over from chemo days. i don't like it. have you talked with a naturopath about your cramps, maybe diet can help. lets keep up the walking.

    no walking today, but lots of ice skating and activity running a party for 20 kids. my girls 10th birthday was a treat.

    hugs,
    pete