The Effects of Forced Exercise on Parkinson's Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms

I strangely became more athletic on a personal level, without really meaning to, slowly but surely, after I was blind, I never considered that one could be athletic without it being all or nothing. That it didn't require me to be professional at it, or competitive at it, to just enjoy being out and about, which wasn't exactly easy, at first, but I definitely knew was necessary. I intended to remain independent as a person, and just find other ways to do everything I usually always did, to meet my own standards of how I knew I liked things. I navigated a little further outside every day. Developing my skills forced me to practice form and understand why military training required marching, for several reasons. Eventually I was walking across town, sometimes and not even bothering with riding the busses, or caring if I missed the last bus connection home. I really think this delayed the onset of my more difficult symptoms of motor neural degeneration, by about 15 years, although most of my life, looking back, I had these symptoms from early childhood. They just were probably dismissed because I was, a child, and kind of really acrobatic with extraordinary balance, as differently as I walked and moved. Anyhow, the weighted backpack, and meticulous navigational form, plus portability of music and blue tooth, eventually got me running behind cars in marching formation, in a way I never had been able to do before the age of around 36. I became more well than I had ever been in my life. Including breathing. I still force myself out. Doing it without looking is not difficult really, now. It's the dystonia, rigidity, and wrecked sleep, and lots of other autonomic disfunction stuff just interferes lots more frequently. It's much slower going hiking out to do errands, but still effective and helpful. Swimming is still my best boon to the rest of my over all self care. Maybe the cool water, and stretching that can't be done without a deep end. 😊

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So practically speaking, Erg Mode could be more beneficial than spinning at 90 RPM in Free Ride Mode?