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#(medical mention is because I know it squicks my sister out terribly when I mention blood pressure and I assume it's not just her)
tj-crochets · 2 years
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Hey y’all! Weird question time! Well. It’s not actually that weird a question, but I like starting question posts off that way lol Do you have any recommendation for warmups before exercising? Cooldowns would also be good, but I’m especially looking for warmups, because with POTS I’m supposed to do gentle exercise but I’m really, really bad at exercising gently. Yoga tanks my blood pressure*, I can’t go for walks because of the heat and the pollen, and I am extremely terrible at sticking to a low speed on a treadmill or stationary bike. I really enjoy exercising with a punching bag, but I am SO BAD at starting slowly, so I think having a separate warm up might help? *that might not be a POTS thing? I also have some adrenal issues, and high intensity exercise like using the punching bag or (in the past) long dance rehearsals for musical theater seem to act like a forced reset for my adrenal issues. Idk why it works, but high intensity exercise is great for my blood pressure and terrible for my heart rate, and yoga is great for my heart rate and extremely terrible for my blood pressure
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