Ward this is so exhausting. But you may ask yourself why is this guy running around with a straw in his mouth thats because this is what it feels like when you exercise with asked me. So its no wonder that working out with us doesnt sound like any fun. Ok. But you should work out because working out is like medicine for us. And not only them. Lung disease heart problems back pain joint pain theres one treatment that works better than any medication that you ever get its exercise. But what dose is the right to take well i dont know but the spot physician fernando de mayo does and i will be. Welcome to in good shape. You can see through in the 3. Months. You know if you dont use it you lose it and i am not talking about your credit card i am talking about your body. For a long time the golden rule for Heart Patients was to take it easy but nowadays we know the opposite is true and proper training can strengthen your heart and ease your symptoms and my right. To date tossed in bed as passionate about exercise but he hasnt always been for years the computer expert put all his energy into his work and there was little left over for health shops if you created a market i was involved in lots of projects where i had to give my all and sacrifice lots of my free time i was always on the. Go and i forgot to take care of myself. That lifestyle had an impact at one point thorsten weighed 146 kilos his body mass index was over 40 in other words he was morbidly obese that put lots of strain on his heart then his cardiologist caught clima fired a warning shot as you call. The pumping function is reduced considerably yours is at 36 percent 55 percent is considered normal and but the doctor also tried to encourage boston by telling him he could take back control of the situation explaining that exercise and weight loss improves heart function some of it or more of the debate took around 3 months until what he said clicked for me. But i suddenly pulled up one day during a walk and thought from this moment on im going to take responsibility for my health. And you have. Tossed and began watching what he ate and started to weigh himself every day thats a big step for people who suffer from impaired heart function they have to monitor their weight constantly on the advice of his doctor tossed and also changed what he ate laying off fatty roasted meats and switching to a mediterranean diet he and his wife now cook with lots of vegetables and healthy oils and its paid off within a year hes lost 20 pounds. Short its a must not when i go to the supermarket my shopping cart looks like i visited a Farmers Market the right diet is key to losing weight and the healthy way but the funny also needs regular exercise often start has profited from his workouts. To the time i dont understand the heart learns to work more economically just on the resistance the hard experiences whats called the after load is reduced. And you can measure it levels of stress hormones like adrenaline in the body which are at higher levels if your heart is weak can be reduced by working out and you just. Tossed him following his doctor suggestion to exercise more. The cardiologist also gave him useful training tips. And human rights information never even goes for a walk then i suggest going for a brisk one and then paying attention to how worn out you feel during and after you should always stop if you have the feeling you cant go on. Then youll need to lower the tempo on the way back runs on the holes its ideal to go for half an hour and even if when you get you feel like you cant take another step. Its all going to come in that. Tossed and has now even set up a small gym in one of his rooms where he exercises with friends and neighbors. Your year of working out his heart is stronger and in general tossed and bent feels like a new man. And im meeting fernando de niro hes a specialist in Sports Medicine here at this spot is on teds park bridge thanks for having me today you offering certain groups for Heart Patients so how connectivity improve the heart well the heart to some muscle like your apps or your biceps and when you work out they grow they improve their function they are better exactly the same happens with the heart if you start exercising your heart is going to grow and its going to be more able to carry out any activity for example if you can play at the heart of athletes and people who do not exercise the heart of one athlete can be 50 percent larger than of people who do not carry out any exercise and of course that this is very convenient and also very important for how to patients whose heart is weakened but when i think about my practice and my patients many of them very of freight if they are suffer from high. It seems very afraid to do some training so do they need to be afraid. You have to confront then with the option if you do not exercise whats going to happen with your heart its exactly the same that happens with your skin its going to roll alder and if you have a sore and it is much worse but if you stop exercising you cannot avoid it its going to improve its going to be better and you are going to feel better you are going to be able to carry out more exercise and you have to decide if theyre afraid of it the option is clearly the best thing sometimes maybe they just say that they are afraid because its just kind of lazy and they just want to get some tablets and but exercise and sports is working the same like doing exercise is much better because with each pill you can have one effect for example you cant reduce the Blood Pressure or you can reduce the blood sugar or you can improve the mood but with exercise you can achieve all these goals at the same time and would we observe frequently is that patients who start exercising they have to reduce the scene they take the drugs they take because for example they need much less than before therefore exercise is not only moving it is a menace in it is a treatment and it cant replace or at least compliment other therapies and what role does that play what kind of exercise we do with your indifference even prefer not to talk about sports because its it means the rules and you are playing what they prefer to talk to to tell to their patients is exercise we are exercising the whole day for example when you take when you go for a walk or you arrive your bike you are exercising and you do not associated with sports but if you move if you are very active if you use every minute every minute just to use your body its going to. Improve its function and its going to eat much of it off of the Heart Patients than to sit down and to watch sports on t. V. And if theres Something Like a perfect do in which you would prescribe exercise yes it is and it is very important for patients after a heart attack for example we recommend patients to start exercising 10 days after a heart attack and thats not a mistake telling that 10 days after a heart attack patients should stop exercising and of course the insecure and they do not know what to do and that is the role of the sports doctor or the cardiologist to tell them to find out what they can do what is appropriate for them what they like and to recommend to write it down like any medicine and any other therapy recommendation and how do you motivate your patients to get started its very easy because in other diseases for example if you have pneumonia and the patients x. Ask himself a soup what could i do differently theres nothing that you can change but if you have a heart attack or any heart disorder you can change your diet you can stop smoking you can start exercising and that is something that the patients realize when they get sick and they find out well if i change my lifestyle if i start exercising for example i can avoid further complications and im going to feel better and to do much better well that is the highest motivation that i can offer my patients we just spoke a lot about Heart Disease and hard to take in total strengthen the muscles of the heart but there are other diseases like orthopedic diseases like for instance lower big pain there are a lot of pills and medications that would help and a lot of surgeons of there would like to operate on those kind of patients but i promise you theres something better. Voter group who works in an office where she spends much of the day at her desk but she can still do something for her back problem she makes a point of getting out of her chair and move. Around frequently and she watches her posture. And now shes back to her old Fitness Program she can even go for runs. For me it was sensational to go jogging again i had to start slowly just a couple of kilometers that i go but now im up to 8 again and very proud of that. Initially thought she would never run again m. R. I. Clearly showed a slipped disc in the lumbar region of her spine. In the early stages after a herniated disk you would logically have a phase of rehabilitation and go slow and then you would start with the strengthening exercises of. Flashback to nov 26th. It was experiencing pain throughout her lower back sometimes it spread to her left leg sometimes up into the back of her neck she tried to alleviate it with rest heating pads and stretching exercises that grew worse when she sat for longer periods the only thing that helped was pain medication but only briefly. It was overwhelming but i didnt want to get written off sick because i wouldnt have known how to deal with it at home either my should or shouldnt do it was really tough. Consulted author peter expressionists paying for pests and physiotherapist she tried cupping and even infusions nothing helped the pain didnt go away she was at the end of her rope work was torture surgery seemed the only option she decided to try one more specialist and went to see christophe boy he confirmed the slipped disc but didnt think an operation was necessary he knew her didnt have a pinched nerve because she had strength and sensation in her legs he thought the pain came from bad posture. Just when i dont know if we dont find any neurological long. Its a function we still have to be cognizant of the slow because it may be relevant to the treatment but it may not be the focus of the problems. In this clinic or back problems but doctors and physiotherapists give patients with acute herniated disks pain killers so they can keep moving. The only important thing is to keep the nerves from growing youre at it with regular exercise improves circulation keeping the nerve cells in the spinal disc provided with nutrients which helps the healing process a lot of patients here practice every day movements that many are now scared to attempt along with exercise they learn more about their condition. And the disc prolapse happened but its not an issue. The body can reabsorb the disk material in the affected area. And that means that you have a herniated disk but no more symptoms. Im kind of symptomatic me booted now once again pursues all the activities she enjoys and wonderful is its such a wonderful feeling to be free of pain. A great feeling. If your. Daughter crick now dares to run for longer and longer stretches what shes learned in the course of the past painful months is that baby in her back was the wrong approach. Especially when it comes to pain like glow big pain or joined pain people think that exercise may be harmful to the joints so how do we know that exercise is more helpful than harmful because exercise is exactly what the articulation the joints need for if you dont you see they are going to last function that is exactly the same with any body function if you stop playing the piano or zinging you are going to do it with the time exactly the same happens with the joints if you do not use it they are going to lose its function and they are going to 8 when you finally start to move so whats a good rule of thumb when to exercise and when perhaps not to exercise well it is important because too much exercise can harm the joints and as i said too few its exactly the same and you can orientate yourself following the pain if you hearts after the workout or even worse during the workout you are doing too much or too silent that if you feel well during the workout and after wards or even if you have pain before you start exercising and if we see you on the exercise that is a very good indicator that you are doing the right thing and that is also good for your joints so what kind of movements would come. Sports activities are good for a joint so i prefer not to say sports because it implies the rules and youre trying to win something and you are competing with other people and that is a nice difference between exercise and sport exercise implies moving just using your body just using your joints and the other its not necessarily good for patients it can also be harmful that every activity the is good for your joints and is good for your body for example rather than a bike or walking or swimming or dancing even is very healthy and is going to improve the function of the joints and if they are injured its going to get better youre going to suffer less pain and you are going to increase your mobility and is there anything we should avoid you should avoid over stress over exercising that means if you start exercise and start with small steps something that you know that you can do and avoid activities which you cannot control for example playing games with the ball you cannot decide how many meters you have to jam to catch the ball for example but if you decide to start running or riding a bike you know exactly what you are doing you know exactly which movement you are carrying out and that is something that you can control much better do you have any tips for all of us hope to stay with the sport how to be consistent in your training it is important to have an environment which also motivates you to exercise more if you to spain for stressful or your like the time its thinkable that with the time you are going to avoid it on your want to stop exercising that if you have a nice room or if you meet nice people if you have an agreement with other persons to exercise regularly when that is more likely that you are going to persist and you are going to mind paying your rhythm and your exercise Program Thanks so much for this talk. So. Working out helps in a lot of conditions but there is Something Else you could do just to write it all down to get it off your chest. Be in good shape your Weekly Health show on d w that covers many aspects of health care we look at whats new in medical treatment nutrition fitness and beauty we discuss these topics and depth with specialists and offer you opportunities to pose your own question so get in touch. When asthmatics themselves physically they can suffer from shortness of breath or coughing but exercise nonetheless is important but its very important to find the right dose for you. An active life without any restrictions until recently that from a little more than a dream for good hands on time she suffers from asthma and has always struggled with attacks that sometimes come daily. Starts with a coughing fit that i cant control and it can grow so strong i eventually start throwing up the air wants in but the cough the mucous need to come out and at some point i cant breathe anymore then i have the feeling that something heavy is sitting on top of me right here. Any physical exercise could trigger the painful attacks eventually called one even grew afraid to walk or climb stairs but the more she rested the more trouble she had breathing. It was caught in a vicious circle of people who have asked more often begin avoiding exercise its a natural reaction physical activity puts more stress on the lungs. By asking when asthma patients start exercising the lungs have to work harder and more air needs to go in and out and Healthy People the bronc expand naturally during exercise thats not necessarily the case with asthma patients their broccoli can constrict meaning theyre out of breath faster with. Gordon was diagnosed 10 years ago in emergency situations she could inhale quarter but that wasnt enough to keep us more under control. I just wasnt that if when we saw ms sontag for the 1st time she was incapable of physical activity so we set out to adjust her medicine tailoring it more to her needs we also got her back up and more active she started exercising 1st going for walks then bike rides that all helped improve her symptoms. Bassma cant be cured but new medications have made the symptoms more treatable and thanks in part to her daily exercise regime who hasnt had any major episode. Lately. The exercise has definitely helped how often do you need the inhaler now after the nigga im left only before exercise exercising with us mark david off mike has been doing it for years whether in durance training or out on the dance floor the sports student enjoys working up a sweat. But that hasnt always been the case david has had asked most since childhood physical education classes at school were hard on him. The teacher would sometimes just throw a ball into the middle of the room and all the other kids would run after it and they were able to even though they had more got them. I often had to stop set down and use my ass must pray for. Exercise has become a form of therapy for david the fitter he becomes the less chance he has of having an asthma attack hes just gone through a stress test to determine exactly how hard he can work out. We measured the v o 2 max or the maximum oxygen intake that can improve significantly through exercise we also did lactate performance diagnostics so that we can now find his most efficient training level. To train efficiently david should wear a heart rate monitor that can warn him when hes overdoing it he has to pace themselves to keep from putting his lungs and muscles under too much strain. Has learned to love exercise too and now go cycling 3 times a week she never feels out of breath anymore and thats done wonders for her quality of life. This summer Something Special in. Every city was dotted with people on board with trying to enjoy their way forward. This is aptly called standup paddling it may look funny but its a great 4 body workout. Stand up paddling or s. U. P. T. For short is great for young and old boredom so they say to find out if that really is the case 3 absolute beginners to the sport are trying it out under the guidance of personal trainer. To get started you need a good sense of balance these and stamina and of course basic swimming skills and the type of board you choose is also important. Im sticking with the clones and beginners should start with a relatively large and wide board that makes it easier to keep your balance and a board that taper towards the front is best if youve never been on one before. Because then its easier to steer practicing on dry land helps you get a feel for it. After the final its easier to keep your balance if your legs are spread a little so 1st will get into the safest position lean forward and put your hands on the board nothing can