Inspiring background to our Australian PDBoxFit trainer

[Jennyjenny2]

Steve was diagnosed with YOPD in 2008 at age 40. He had spent approx 20 years working as a fitness trainer, training approximately 300,000 trainers worldwide, living and working for14 years in Europe.

He is proof that exercise can not only slow the progression of Parkinson’s, but can also help to reduce medication.

Here is Steve’s story…

exerciseforparkinsons.com.a...

I’m hoping this will be seen as an inspiring story to motivate people to get out there and exercise, and not as an advertisement. That is not my intention.

[JayPwP]

Steve should make a video on YouTube

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to JayPwP]

Here is Steve’s interview with The Project.

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[chartist]

A possibly relevant factor is that aerobic exercise(boxing) increases melatonin production and melatonin crosses the blood brain barrier, protects the mitochondria and dopaminergic neurons, is anti inflammatory and returns elevated oxidative stress levels in PwP back to healthy control levels!

Art

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to chartist]

Good explanation. Thanks Art.

[Seamus6]

Excellent, reminds me of Jimmy Choi....who in his own words 'did nothing' for the first eight years before turning it around and halving his meds.

Exercise seems to be the only way.

tiktok.com/@northwesternmed...

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to Seamus6]

Thanks. That’s great too! I hadn’t seen that.

[jeeves19 in reply to Jennyjenny2]

Jenny. Do you know this fella personally? It sounds all well and good and I’d like to believe it but I’m actually so rough these days that after a difficult night especially I just can’t do any meaningful exercise other than maybe stretch? The thought of boxing just exhausts me (and I used to box properly back in the day 🥊).

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to jeeves19]

Hi jeeves. Sorry to hear you’re not going well. Yes, we do know Steve personally. He brought PDBoxFit to our town approximately 5 years ago. We met him when he trained our neuro physio for the ongoing group classes.

With covid, the lockdowns began and the gyms closed, so we joined Steve’s group zoom classes, then when the gyms reopened, he very kindly agreed to continue with our weekly zoom sessions as we live approx 600 klms away.

Baby steps! Just work up to it gradually. Maybe start with a few lunges, or squat and stop, and gradually build up over the weeks. You can do it. It will take time, but you will get there!

Since you used to box, here’s a bit more inspiration. Steve participated in a charity boxing event. He won the fight, and it’s interesting to note that the other fellow didn’t have Parkinson’s.

parkinsonsnsw.org.au/steve-...

[jeeves19 in reply to Jennyjenny2]

That’s a great story Jenny. Thanks for it and thanks for getting back to me on that. Good luck to you too.

[Phusson]

I'm going on 10 years since diagnosed at 56. I have been working out for most of my adult life and I do believe exercise is helping me a great amount.

[MBAnderson]

Good one. Thanks Jenny.