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[bobbyfloyd]

I am going to pulmonary rehab and find I am very tired after it and the following day.

I am looking for any advise on this matter, thanking you

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Have you talked to the physios? What is there advice?

Personally, i worked hard at rehab and experienced tiredness afterwards.

I always recovered the day after so i would talk to your physio.

Atb

Kevin

[jandan]

Relax but do some of the exercises at home so you are not starting from go every time it will get better.

Janet

xxx

[scrobbitty]

Both comments above have excellent points and good advice. We all handle exercise differently but the whole point of rehab is do as much as you can without severe after effects - it is a gentle way of getting the lungs to their best, not a torture session.

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Hi bobbyfloyd, in the early days starting out, PR is tiring, just rest when you get home and the following day too if you need to. Slowly but surely you will become fitter and find not so tiring as you continue.

If you do a little of what you are shown at PR each day this will help towards regaining more mobility and endurance.

Enjoy BC x

[CornishBrian]

When you started re-hab you had to make room in your normal routine for your sessions so go back and pencil in some "you days" after your visits to the gym. Use these times to rest recuperate but most of all as your time. Do as it was suggested and do some light exercise at home on your days away from the gym....use little drink bottles filled with water for arm exercises etc. Look at your diet too. All this will be covered in rehab later on anyway. The day before the gym try to have rice or pasta as it is slow release energy food and do a little extra to make up a rice or pasta salad to have on gym days. I was lucky because my gym sessions were afternoons so I had my pasta salad at about 11:30 to start digestion off but get the benefit of the energy release. Good luck, stick with it and give it everything you can. Rehab is like a sewer.....you can only get out of it what you put into it.

[Hitchcock]

Following CornishBrian's lead, good diet can help you recover, as well as rest. "Good carb's" to restore glycogen levels, protein to rebuild muscle torn down in the gym, and dark green veggies. Mix in some red and yellow bell peppers.

[qbjb]

Do be careful and don't overdo it because I now have major heart problems which I'm sure were partly caused by pushing myself too hard in PR sessions.

Having said that, the staff were fantastic at organising an almost instant blue badge and lots of information. They were lovely but the end result was that I couldn't walk as far as I did when I first started.

Make the right decision for yourself and don't be pushed further than you can handle!

Jude

[Jacko72 in reply to qbjb]

What great advise, sometimes you can be pushed into doing to much exercise. Physio's arnt always right. Only you no what is to much. I've felt like I had to push on with the exercises before,whilst feeling like I may have a heart attack any minute.