When I was in my early 50's I could quite happily walk 3 miles a day, carry things quite easily and generally wasn't too unfit for my age. However, in my mid 50s, things started to go wrong. 😞
As I have said, I had been a smoker for many years and also had the underlying hereditary heart condition. This all finally took its toll: I was always wheezy, could only walk about a third of the amount I used to without breaks, got chest pains and was short of breath after only a little exercise.
I stopped smoking before anything was diagnosed, but although this helped clear the wheeziness, and cleared up the almost continual cold I had, but I still couldn't walk any further, or do much more exercise. This continued after the diagnosis, because I was afraid to exercise in case I did myself more harm.
However, there are definite benefits to doing cardio-vascular exercise and Karate has worked for me. In the early days, I could probably go only 10 minutes without taking a break. Now, 10 months on, I can go 40 to 50 minutes without taking a break on the better days. I am back to being able to walk 3 miles in a day and carrying things again without too much difficulty.
Those are things that I didn't think I would be able to do again 😊😊😊
Update: 24/04/2019
A few months further on and its 50 minutes to an hour I can last now, less effort to walk those 3 miles, and the things I can comfortably carry are a bit heavier. So things are still improving 😊😊😊
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