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CiscoKidney07
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Username: Gregg

Post Number: 3911
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 03:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I am willing to try to help those of you who that find it hard to exercise--either to get there or who are limited in what you are able to do. I am a firm believer in the fact that everyone can do something in order to improve their fitness. Let me preface my offer by saying as always, please check with your doctors to make absolutely certain that they have no problems with you doing exercises. If there is a situation where I cannot answer your question right away, I will get an answer for you. Basically, all I am doing is offering ideas so that you can help put yourself in better shape.
There are not too many things in life worth working my butt off for, but my health is one of them
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Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 08:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I will be your first candidate.
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Hostess Rise
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Post Number: 14405
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Posted on Monday, September 13, 2010 - 01:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Just found this video. I like this

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2010/09/13/interval-cardio-on-treadmill-for-fat-loss.aspx
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Anne
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Post Number: 165
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 03:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Cisco.....
I have arthritis in my hips and my knees act up sometimes. I work 50-60 hours a week and am on my feet, so I get home and they really ache! I want to get fitter, but walking more just sounds painful! What should I be doing? I wondered if the eliptical or something would be easier on my hips!?
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- dialysis started 11/15/07
son Billy gave me the gift of life May 6, 2008 at The Ohio State University! Amazing!
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Hostess Rise
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Post Number: 14506
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Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 03:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Anne

If you are looking to buy a machine, DO NOT buy an eliptical machine especially if you have hip or back problems.

I love my treadmill. I wasted money on my precor eliptical. Maybe because every time i use it, I seem to overdo.
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CiscoKidney07
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Username: Gregg

Post Number: 3977
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Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 03:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Anne, I will ask my personal trainer what he would suggest. As a matter of fact, I will ask the trainers and the gym owner and get back to you on that one. It would not hurt to get a variety of opinions and see which ones are the same. Rise, elliptical has to be taken very easily. It could be done in small amounts in addition to your treadmill.
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Hostess Rise
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Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 06:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Very true Cisco

Anne, if you can go to the gym as a guest at a local gym. See what you like. It is your decision what is best for you.
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sslgot5
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Post Number: 6
Registered: 10-2010
Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 08:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hello Mr. Cisco,
I'm new to the site and am a 48 year old female, transplant recipient (4/7/10). So it will be 6 months on October 7th. Although thank God, I've dropped 20 lbs since my surgery (I was overweight only 5'0 and was 156 lbs), I now weigh 136 and would like to go down to about 128. I am eating healthy things (90% of the time), I will once in a while have an small piece of apple pie (my fave). Anyway I have two questions.. 1. How long after transplant can you start doing sit ups / leg lifts and 2. can weight loss affect your kidney in anyway (especially if you were on the chunky side before surgery.. Thanks..
CiscoKidney07
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Post Number: 3978
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Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 09:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Do you feel comfortable doing sit-ups? leg lifts? Have you asked your tx team about ab work? I think if it were me, just to amuse myself, I would ask them if it is okay. I learned a long time ago, never assume anything. 2. You will be doing yourself a favor by losing some weight after transplant I went from about 220# just before transplant to 196# this morning, and I have been gaining weight! The difference is that at 220#, I was 35% body fat and now, I am about 22 or 23%, so it was a change in weight, but more importantly, a change in body composition. Ideally, when you lose weight, you try to burn 500 calories per day more than you eat. That would give you a pound a week weight loss (3500 calories=1#) You will find that if you lose the weight, it can potentially help with blood sugars. I do know, for instance that cardio work will lower your sugars more quickly because it burns more calories than lifting weights. Of course, I spend a lot more time on the treadmill than most people do because I cannot go outside and run in the sun without being all goopy with sun screen. I slap on the ol' MP3 player and have at it. I do interval training on it. Treadmill slower speed .1 mile, faster speed .4 mile, slower speed .1 mile, faster speed .4 mile, etc. Since I have been doing it for a long time, my slow is 4.5 mph ( a fast walk) and fast is 6 mph (basically a jog. I can go faster, but probably not for that far. I could break it up, but that is another story) Just to give you some encouragement, before I was diagnosed, my weight got as high as 235#! If I can do it, so can you! If I can help you with other answers, holla!
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sslgot5
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Username: Sslgot5

Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2010
Posted on Saturday, October 02, 2010 - 10:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

They said it was ok to do squats and lunges but I didn't ask them about sit ups yet. It's been six months but when I try go from laying down to sitting straight up in bed I still feel some weirdness in the incision area, being that that is still happening, I just doubted that I could even try to do sit ups. I was walking about a 1/2 mile to a mile a day about three months after the surgery, but have been unable to do so since July because I went back to work full time. I do not own a tread mill so.. I did mention that to the doctor and they said it could be scar tissue.. I will ask them on the 25th on my next appt. Thank you for all the info..
CiscoKidney07
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Username: Gregg

Post Number: 3979
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 08:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Squats are pretty intense, but ask them about sit-ups, especially if you feel "weirdness". What you might try doing, since you went back to work is to walk around after lunch until you have to go back to work. You could also try parking away from the building so that you have farther to walk. You might also try using stairs at work if you have them. Use your noggin, and I am sure that you can come up with some more things you can do at work, without having a treadmill of anything else. Just some suggestions. Good luck.
There are not too many things in life worth working my butt off for, but my health is one of them
Mashka
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Username: Mashka

Post Number: 119
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 08:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hey Cisco! Thats awesome of you to do a thread like this!


sslgot5, I will tell you that if your dr's said it is ok to do squats, then its almost for sure ok to do crunches or leg raisers, squats and deadlifts work your abs FAR more than crunches or leg raisers. And the more body fat you lose around your insition and area that is numb, the less weird it will feel. I am more than a year post surgery, and if I dont do cardio for 2 days, i get the "weird" feeling again. Also, when I 1st got back into doing crunches and what not, it was weird feeling also, later I realized it was muscle soreness, you will see this weirdness go away with the more you perform exercises.
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sslgot5
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Username: Sslgot5

Post Number: 13
Registered: 10-2010
Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 09:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thank you Mashka, that is most encouraging... Looking forward to starting that.. I'll let you know how it goes.
Mashka
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Username: Mashka

Post Number: 121
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 01:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yup! Just be careful but push yourself at the same time, and don't forget how important breathing is as well. Give your body what its asking for and it will reward you back :-)
Liver transplant 8.14.09
Mount Sinai, NY
LadyDi
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Username: Ladydi

Post Number: 2464
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Love the information here! Just adding my two cents from my own experience....... while I didn't have near the surgery you guys did, I remember vividly going back and the incremental progress at the gym.
( Cisco and I were pretty close to starting back around the same time). With squats and lunges (as approved by your doctor) don't concentrate on the rep count or weight - if you did them before and are planning & comfortable to do them now, just concentrate entirely on your form.

I remember that I had a real problem as your natural tendency is to protect that abdominal area by leaning forward, and, as a result, my form was not turning out to be the best starting out. - And it is improper form that can injure you. If you do go to a gym, ask one of the trainers to help you out as they can watch and "tweak" form as needed. Both moves have a lot going on with large groups of muscles involved.

Good luck at your appt on the 25th!
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sslgot5
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Post Number: 15
Registered: 10-2010
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 02:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thank you all. This sure is a great bunch of people
CiscoKidney07
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Username: Gregg

Post Number: 4021
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 04:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Anne, I apologize in taking so long to respond to you. I will have an answer for you sometime tomorrow.
There are not too many things in life worth working my butt off for, but my health is one of them
CiscoKidney07
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Username: Gregg

Post Number: 4022
Registered: 03-2008
Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 10:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Well, Anne, I have one opinion from the owner of the gym that I go to. He said that even though you have arthritis, that you should still exercise, because it would still help you. One thing to consider might be to get a personal trainer for a short period of time at least. That might help to get you started. Yes, the exercise will probably hurt at first, anyway. But if you are able to stick with it, there should be a big difference in the way you feel. Let me talk with some other folks this week and see if I can get a consensus about the matter.
There are not too many things in life worth working my butt off for, but my health is one of them

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