[Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Fri Mar 1 16:58:25 UTC 2013

Once you push that wall, exercise actually can be euphoric. The initial
thought of exercising especially if tired or having low energy can be
just exhausting to even think about, but once you start and get into a
good routine, the way you feel is better than how you feel without
exercise.

Also, it's good to mix up exercise routines so the body doesn't adjust
to one thing. After prolonged types of physical movement, the body stops
responding. It's good to mix it up so the body doesn't settle into one
method. You're essentially tricking your body, grin.

Depending on how many days a week you exercise, do walking one day, jump
rope another, treadmill another, etc. Of course, this will all be based
on what is available to you.

At home there are several things you can do for cardio that don't
require videos, equipment or money like walking or jogging, dancing and
simple toning exercises and much much more.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie Kline
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 9:53 AM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Try doing your first ever 3 mile indoor walk using a DVD and then let me
know which is worse, the way you feel after the walking or
water-boarding. I did it earlier this week and when I was done, I was
like asking myself, Are you trying to kill me?  But I knew it was time
for me to go to the next level, and have done two 3-mile walks twice now
over two consecutive days. Not bad considering my first time I did the
program back in the beginning of February, I could barely make a mile.
The second 3-mile walk wasn't nearly as exhausting or as bad as the
first. Oh well, such are things when you pick up a new exercise program.
My goal is to get to 4 miles each day 6 days a week.  We'll see when
that happens. Julie

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:08 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Sounds almost worse than water-boarding to me. (smirk)

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:11 PM
To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Only yoga has the philosophical element, but most modern gyms only focus
on the actual physical part.

And these types of stretching work heavily with breathing techniques, so
the spiritual side kind of goes hand-in-hand, but it's really about
focusing on the breathing and position. As I said, modern gyms will want
you to focus on the breathing, but I doubt they will be teaching any
spiritual element unless it's a specific yoga facility or some
hippy-dippy instructor, grin.

I was doing Pilates and yoga long before I lost my sight, so I do a lot
on my own without help. I was a dancer and fitness instructor back in
the day, so I just remember a lot, which helps.

I'm not aware of described videos, but in my experience, most exercise
videos describe movements as the instructor goes along, so they very
well may work for blind people.

A yoga or Pilates class shouldn't be a problem at all. It's very easy
for an instructor to describe each position as you go along, and if you
are comfortable, they can even help place you in a position if
necessary. You can also go with a work-out partner so they can describe
positions as you go along.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Julie Kline
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:43 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] information wanted for Pilates and/or yoga?

Hi All,

I had read in a recent message from Bridget that you've done Pilates.
For people who have done these, I'm just curious, how do you do these?
Are there DVDs available that you use where they verbally describe what
moves they are doing and you can follow along safely?  Do you go through
a facility?  The place I go to offers classes in Pilates and yoga, but I
never did it just because I'm not into the whole philosophical and
meditation aspect of those, (nothing towards that, it's just not my
thing), but if there's something out there that just does the stretching
part, I'm curious as to how you made it work.  I currently use some
walking DVDs, but would like to mix things up a little.

Thanks.

Julie

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