Ever since I was released from the hospital back in April 2008, I have been able to slowly rebuild my home gym into something quite functional. Training at home is my preferred method of madness, but I like quality stuff. So, between my prayers, God providence and some patience, I have been able to acquire some of the best tools available.
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By Steve Holman
One way you can tell that home training is becoming more popular is by the growing number of quality in-house training units that are available. Soloflex, along with all of its imitators, is doing booming business, and every time you turn around theres some new or improved muscle machine claiming to be the latest high tech answer to your fitness needs.
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The purpose of this post is to discuss some of the strategies I am using to recover from chronic illness – a contradiction in terms at first glance, when one considers the fact that chronic illnesses tend not to get better with the passage of time.
It is my hope that some of these strategies might be helpful to someone else who has just gotten out of the hospital, or is trying to find a way to improve their lung disease through exercise. This post will also deal with some of the obstacles that I have faced since embarking on my recovery, how I am overcoming them and what my goals are in terms of how far I want to realistically go with my recovery.
In the end, I am hoping to encourage people with COPD not to lose hope, because the discouragement that comes with fighting for your every breath can weigh more heavily on ones shoulders than a barbell loaded with 1000 pounds of iron.
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In my last installment in this series on building a home gym, I talked about some strategies you can use to outfit your own home with some professional grade strength tools that can help you reach you fitness goals. We discussed calesthenics, bands and cables, Ironmaster etc.
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OK, so where were we? Oh yes. That’s right. In part 3a we came to the realization that you have the money and the space for a gym that offers just about everything you need for the total strength training experience. You have a fitness level that is challenged by COPD (or maybe you don’t), but nevertheless you are fit enough that you can wrap your mind around the notion of traditional strength training as a vehicle to a healthier you. So, what do you buy? OK, I’ll answer that. But first, a story.
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In my first two columns on COPD, Part 1 and Part 2, my objective was to help you understand that the challenge of exercise is overwhelming for most people, and that for this reason most healthy people choose not to workout. This challenge is made all the more difficult when you add the conundrum of COPD to the mix.
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In the coming weeks I intend to add more columns on my personal experience in dealing with COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). For now, I thought I would break ground by leading off with some thoughts about fitness in general, and exercise and COPD in particular.
No one can argue that exercise is beneficial to most everyone. Granted, there are some extenuating circumstances were exercise might be counter productive to someone’s health, but my pulmonologist believes that in most cases just about everyone can benefit from regular exercise. He feels exercise is of particular importance for people managing illnesses like Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Chronic Bronchitis, etc. I could not agree more.
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