[nabs-l] Lower Stamina

[Jonathan Franks]

Hello,
I do not believe that your stamina has anything to do with your
blindness, unless your cause for vision loss can cause you to have
less stamina due to other characteristics of the loss. Since you
mentioned that you were not an athelete growing up, you may not have
had any opportunities to build up your stamina. One thing you can do
is go to the gym and do different activities such as walk or run on a
treadmill in order to build up your stamina. It also may be partly due
to what type of food you consume. I would look up on your search
engine to see what type of activities you may do in order to increase
your stamina.

I hope this helps

Jonathan Franks

On 5/16/16, Rahul Bajaj via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I hope this message finds you well. I am wondering if anyone else here has
> realized that their endurance level/stamina is a lot lower than that of
> their sighted counterparts. More specifically, whenever I have taken up an
> activity that requires high levels of stamina, such as swimming, running or
> dancing, I have realized that I run out of breath and feel tired a lot
> sooner than my able-bodied counterparts.
> On deeper scrutiny, I think this has a lot to do with the fact that I never
> played any outdoor sports as a child, owing to my impairment, so I've never
> had the opportunity to build the same level of stamina as others.
> I am wondering if your own experience bears this out and what you have done
> to address this in a meaningful way.
>
> Best,
> Rahul
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