The Aging Woman: My Exercises

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I wanted to add this comment from Zebra100001. It inspired me so much and I know it will inspire everyone else, too:

I'm 53 and in 2009 I was diagnosed with complex breast cancer. By the end of 2009 I could barely put one foot in front of the other - a flight of stairs was a project and my body was ravaged from the chemo. 2010 was about surviving the after effects of chemo and surgery. 2011, I decided if I wasn't going to die then I was going to try and bring my body back. When I was a teen I was a competitive figure skater but then took a 25 year exercise 'break' so when I got the cancer diagnosis I was a 45 year old, out of shape smoker. (The smoking stopped at diagnosis).

I started with one minute a day - a stretch. Some days even that had to get cut back to 30 seconds. Took almost a year to be able to go up a flight of stairs without hauling myself up with my arms. Then I bought an elliptical and started with 3 minutes on easy. I worked my way up to 40 minutes on interval programs.
In fall of 2015 I bought a resistance weight machine and added that to the workout. My weight machine is minimum 10 pounds so it took a long time to be able to move much of any of the weight but I persisted. I little tug every day. Now, depending on the exercise, I use anywhere between 10 to 40 pounds. Summer of 2015 I tried cycling. At first I could barely make half a mile. Little by little I worked my way up. This summer I rode almost daily and got myself up to 10 miles a day.
I live in the Great White North (lol - Canada) so bicycling season has pretty much ended. Yesterday my stationary bike arrived so now my home gym has the elliptical, the weight machine and a stationary bike. My workout is now about an hour to an hour and half a day. A combination of cycling, weights and the elliptical. It's taken me 6 years to get this far but I know what it's like to be close to physically helpless and I want to avoid that as long as I can. I have been meaning to incorporate exercises like yours because I feel there is no flexibility exercises in my routine.

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