Understanding Exercise
Your Prescribed Exercise
Why Have I Been Prescribed Exercise?
Exercise is often used to help you improve your symptoms by increasing your muscular strength. We all need to improve our muscle mass (the amount of muscle we have) before being able to increase our strength, power and endurance.
Strengthening is a process that requires us to challenge our bodies with activity to be able to drive a change. These changes are not immediate and strengthening will take at least 6-8 weeks before we notice big changes.
Resistance exercise is great at helping manage many conditions including:
Arthritis
Dementia
Frailty
Low Back Pain
Obesity
Pulmonary Disorders
Cancers
Diabetes
Mental Health
High Blood Pressure
Osteoarthrits
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Falls Risk
Insomnia
Osteoporosis
Cardiovascular Disease
Stroke
Movement Disorders
How Many Repetitions of an Exercise Should I Do?
Below are some ideas of how to choose what repetitions you should be using. Remember that you need muscle mass and strength before you can improve your power and/or endurance:
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How Do I Know When to Make Things Harder (Progress) or Easier (Regress)?
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