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Hi All

I am new to the forum and already had some real help from my first post. I have chronic but controlled asthma and have taken up doing a bit of swimming. Have others found this helpful and what other exercises do folk do to help lung capacity and strength?

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elanaoali

My peak flow should be 420 for my age etc. It is 500 and this surprise my asthma nurse. She asked me if I ran? I said no I swim she said that explain it. So I say go for it take up swimming.

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emmasue

My peak flow should be about 450 but it's 630. It turns out that it was because I used to play musical instruments (flute, French horn and Flugal horn). Apparently singing is good too. Otherwise, I do walk everywhere, although that can be a challenge when I am bad.

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Gareth57

Hi, I am a strong believer in exercise, however I don’t swim so much, and after not exercising for a couple of months for various reasons I feel worse for it

Hello Livvi26,

I am so glad you asked. First, yes, swimming is great for asthma. I am a runner with asthma and I alternate swimming and running days. Yoga is also great. Go to the following website to get the yoga sun salutation exercise- lifespa.com/how-to-do-sun-s.... I supplement this with five minutes of the Peaceful Warrior Workout. dailyom.com/cgi-bin/courses...

I find push ups to be very helpful too. I also do some tai chi. I suggest you read Patrick

McKeown's book, "Asthma Free-naturally." There are excellent breathing exercises in that book that I do every day.

Feel free to email me at runnerwithasthma@gmail.com.

John Terry McConnell, author of "Running with Asthma: an Asthmatic Runner's Memoir"

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Livvi26 in reply to runnerwithasthma2559

Thank you so much that is really helpful and I will get on with it now and report back in a while

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Eduardono

GRAcias

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Eduardono

Son

muy utiles sus posts

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Eduardono

Teddy roosevelt fue asmatico y lo supero con ejercicio.

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Eduardono

Tu post me motiva muchisimo. Gracias. Desde el fondo de mi corazon.

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