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This is Tuesday, in case you haven’t noticed. I didn’t train Monday and it is possible I may not train this week, depending on what my job/work and moving status is like. Stay tuned. Read the rest of this entry »

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Here is a really interesting snippet from an article on the issues of lung problems and breathing technique in professional sports and athletics.

Why do some pass a cardiac stress test and drop dead the following day or soon thereafter? Competitive athletes and non competitive exercisers (this also applies to Fire and Police personnel as well as emergency paramedics and anyone that must intensely breath-heave, gasp or over exert repeatedly on the job or otherwise) routinely breathe too hard, too fast, and too soon. This is unbalanced hyper-inhalation. They often mouth-breathe, breath-heave and/or gasp to get the air they need to support their exertions. This kind of charged breathing can develop respiratory problems due the constriction of the breathing muscles, reduced breathing volume, and internal coordination restrictions such as presented in sports induced asthma. I believe this is often why many athletes develop sports induced breathing problems, and die prematurely of heart and vascular problems, and incur many of the problems listed below.

For the entire article Go To Optimal Breathing

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I never thought of myself as “disabled”. I never use to that is. Then again, I had never lived to be 43 before. Or 42. Or 41. And with each passing year I can look back on an increasingly longer journey and see the innumerable ways in which having a chronic illness has impacted my life, affected my relationships, hurt me financially (up to this point at least), challenged me spiritually, angered me at times, hurt my self-image, pressed me forward, challenged me to be better than I would have otherwise been, held me down and kept me form being all I could have been and more. It really does run the full spectrum when I sit back and think about the ways in which CF has shaped my life.
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Drugs have side effects. Period. So does Combivent, a drug that I use. Is Combivent dangerous? I think it is. First, I need to give a little history here, and then we can talk shop.

In 2000, I moved home with my mom to begin assisting her with her care because she had developed cancer. Her ordeal was terrible because in addition to the effects of the cancer itself, the drug therapies she endured were horrendously brutal on her health and constitution. One of the drugs she used to combat her lung cancer was something called Combivent. It really helped her.

I had been using Albuteral since the early 90′s. My doctor prescribed it as a quick fix for times when allergies made my chest tight, or when I felt particularly congested…
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OK, I am feeling better, more or less. My lungs are feeling better. Although I overdosed on some medication that had me in trouble for about 3 hours on Monday. I apparently used way too much of an Inhaler called Combivent. More on that later. Anyway, I pushed through the session and used more weight, but because of my reaction to the medication, I had to do two fewer exercises. Read the rest of this entry »

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OK, after battling pneomonia for 2 months, my bodyweight was 148, down from 158 two months earlier. My lungs were still reeling, but I wanted to workout. I had worked out 4 days ago, and had a very nice one with little trouble breathing and no congestion. I was eager to see how my second workout would be.

Keep in mind that I wanted to use light weights, and I didn’t want to do high reps or intesity, which might put me in respiratory distress.
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Today I had my second workout since battling back from Pneumonia. Who knows how long I had it. Perhaps for months. Who knows? The prognosis is good I suppose, but my doctor told me that my lungs were damaged; not permanently, but damaged nevertheless. He says it is reversible and if we can take care of the infection causing the Pneumonia, I should be on my way to feeling great again. Thank goodness.

As a rule, I do not take many meds. This is a personal choice. As a child, I was always battling colds and so forth, and at the time my doctors had me on a steady stream of antibiotics. But at one point, as I got older mind you, I made the decision to stop taking them because I didn’t want my body to become immune to them. With my active lifestyle, I just forged ahead using only my enzymes to digest foods and pounding down good antioxidants and protein. The results spoke for themselves.
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