My doctor told me to exercise and I thought he was crazy - I'm already short of breath. He told me it would help me so I looked for some DVD's and found this list of the top 10 DVDs for COPD at About.com.
copd.about.com/od/exercisea...
I hope this helps someone else.
Hi
Exercise is good for you, it helps strength muscle so they require less oxygen to function.
Like a well tuned car users less fuel.
Ask to be refereed to a pulmonary rehablitation class, which is one hour exercise suited to your needs. With one hour education.
If you go to the pinned post on the right of page, click on "Abbreviations and Links " scroll down to "exercise " these are typical of pulmonary rehablitation classes .
there is no doubt exercise helps, but exercise for some folks,[ as it is sometimes in my case] can often be extremely difficult, especially with underlying illnesses , or disabilities,,,but even the least bit exercise is better than nothing.
may you enjoy your exercises and reap the benefits,
kindest regards,
jimmy
Exercise certainly does help. I am doing my PR at the moment. Been twice. The Friday one started at 9.30, I felt like calling in sick not being a morning person but thought the lovely people who take it have made the effort to help me, so I dragged myself there and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was able to do more exercises than on the Tuesday. Felt energized all day. But sadly dead beat today. Stats are good though. Try to do some.
Yes yes yes exercise definitely helps !!! Please please try to do as much as you can. Ask for a referral to the pulmonary rehab course by your doctor that will really help too. Good luck xx
As a (now non-practicing) Tai Chi Sifu with COPD/Cervical Spondylitis/Osteoarthritis (there's more..but honestly you don't want to know haha) I'd always recommend learning Tai Chi as a way to exercise. Tai Chi is perfect for those of us who are have limited movement and mobility, if it hadn't been for the breathing and exercise techniques I learnt as a student, I don't think I'd have survived thus far.
If you have a reputable 'class' or 'club' nearby why not go along and have a word with the Sifu and see if you can try out a 'learners' class, though it isn't for everyone, nothing was ever gained by not trying.
Tai Chi is wonderful and even if your mobility is impaired or you're in a wheelchair, it's still a great way to learn breathing techniques, which helps with COPD. If nothing else it gets you out of the house and once learned you can do the warm up exercises at home, which is always good.
B
I love tai chi best exersize,gentle and relaxing and good for balance ,I have acupuncture too.
the simple answer here is yes I do it been waiting to do it for years and at last it seems things are being done to help me help myself with this distressing condition although I did look at your link and would bodly go as far as saying that a bronchiectasis has nothing to do with COPD. In COPD the airways narrow and in bronchiectasis the airways dilate
I have COPD and lower back problems I go swimming the water supports the weight of your body and it is a good all round body work out I just wish someone would come up with a essay way of getting dressed after.
I swim - usually about 4 times a week. Swimming pools aren't necessarily the chlorine filled stuffy horrors of our youth. They use less chemicals these days and are far more airy. I swam 3550 metres last week albeit quite slowly. I am an absolute advocate of exercise. I also try and do a lot of walking, climbing my first (and last) mountain in June and completing a 5 mile stretch of Hadrian's wall last month. I would never have dreamed I was able to do these things but if you build yourself up it is possible. As someone else said - its like a finely tuned car, the better shape your body is in the more efficiently it works. Your GP seems keen for you to exercise so definitely speak to him about re-hab.
Good luck
Marie
exercise can regenerate your lungs
don't believe that it can't
3 others and i have been doing so and the story is on my site regeneratinglungs.com
check it out
ron peterson
Best exercise with a lung condition 
Chest tightness after exercise
It would have helped to exercise my arm and shoulder following lung surgery in order to avoid frozen shoulder
help please
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