RE: Training Programs with Parkinson's Disease

U2842 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:44:44 GMT

Hi Pamela,

Please feel free to contact me, happy to share notes etc.

Zaq

RE: Training Programs with Parkinson's Disease

90N61 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:03:07 GMT

Just an anecdotal testimonial to encourage you: 2020-2021, for ten months, I swam 3x/week with an 84 yo friend, with macular degeneration. She previously had compted and swam regularly. After some grief, she stopped for about 4 years. When she tried, she felt off balance. Then diagnosed w PD which explains some things. After 3 weeks of Sinemet, she asked to try again. Though it looked awkward at first, she persisted, slow and steady 3x per week. She was my heroine, inspiring me to keep going, tho out of shape. My heart skipping beats, fatigued most days after workout, but I told myself, “If she (20 yrs older than me), can do it, them so can I” 10 month later, we were regiatered for open water Tahoe 1/2 mile, since we had developed habit of swim one mile in 50 minutes. As long as she swam, her gait was better, more confident, bolder, she went to blind school and walked taller. She lived alone with confodence. We gave each other so much during that time. Slow and steady did it for her, and modeled resiliency, persistence and patience for me.