[Sportsandrec] Statistics on Fitness in Blind Community

[Roger Acuna]

Hey, great progress with the foot. I agree with Bill completely.  Just Keep 
on running around that block and soon you will run further.
Personally, I am very thankful to my oldest brother who introduced me to 
weight lifting when I was eight-years-old in 1977. To this day I continue 
exercising at 24 hour fitness.  I also have a guide dog and we walk 
endlessly to and from work, to do chores and etc etc.  I once had a guidedog 
that would run with me around the track on a regular basis.   Like I 
mensioned before, love them shepherds! I also go to a tenis court and toss a 
goalball, chase it down and turn around and do the same till I run out of 
breath. Great crdo pplus good goalball practice.  I got to keep up with our 
california bay area goalball crew!  ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie J." <julielj at neb.rr.com>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
<sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 6:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Statistics on Fitness in Blind Community


>I agree with what Bill has said here.  It's the hard truth.  I did take him 
>up on his offer of setting up an exercise program that would mesh well with 
>my physical ability while I was recovering from my foot injury.  He was 
>very easy to work with and the exercises he came up with allowed me to 
>continue to maintain my fitness while not aggravating my injured foot.  A 
>big thank you to Bill!
>
> I also wanted to add that I have started running just in the past few 
> weeks.  At first I could only make it a few feet before I was breathing 
> hard and my foot was throbbing.  I kept at it, doing a little bit more 
> each day.  When I got up to being able to run longer stretches I began 
> taking every other day off so that my foot could rest and recover.  Now I 
> can run all the way around the block where I live.  I realize this is a 
> very short distance, but it feels amazing to have made that much progress.
>
> I do not have a gym membership.  Where I live there is no dedicated 
> workout facility like that and no YMCA either.  I have had to find ways to 
> keep fit with not a lot of resources.  I walk a lot for my main exercise. 
> We have public hike and bike paths here that are very nice for walking or 
> running.  The high school track is open to the public, of course when the 
> students are not using it, but that still leaves quite a bit of 
> opportunity.  I also found quite a few useful workout videos on you tube. 
> Not all of them had excellent descriptions, but they gave me ideas to add 
> variety and keep things fun.  Unless you have some specific sport goal in 
> mind or want to be a professional weightlifter, I don't think it matters 
> so much what exercise you do.  If your goal is to be more fit, you can do 
> just about any sort of movement that you find enjoyable and it will get 
> you going in the right direction.
>
> Julie
>
>
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