Greetings,
I truly apologise that it has been so long since I have posted here. I have thought about posting various things here but they did not seem to be related. I have been rather busy trying to get a book to print as I have moved into self-publishing. I am also still running my own fencing school and all of these things take time and energy, so the lack of time and spoons is an issue. This is not what I am here to discuss. The article for this post is about progression.
5%. It does not sound like much but it is important as it is further along than you were before. Progression is about building up energy and strength, this approach is about building up this energy and strength in a manageable way. So, you decide that you want to walk to improve your fitness. Aim for 105% of the distance each time you walk and you will improve your fitness, or 105% of the speed, but not both at the same time. When you do this you will have improved yourself 5%.
Having a chronic illness is about managing the strength and energy a person has at that point in time. There is no point in going to a gym and smashing out a full session if you are going to "crash" afterward and not going to move for a week afterward. These sharp sessions of improvement and decline are not great for your body and should be saved for things that you enjoy, if you do them at all. As far as exercise for health is concerned, you should only be pushing yourself far enough that you can begin to feel it, i.e. adding 5%. This way you can repeat the same thing again, even in the same week.
For myself, I have been going to a hydrotheraphy pool twice a week, most weeks anyway and aiming for the 5%. Sometimes it is just nice to relax in the nice warm water and do some stretching of my muscles, but even this servs a purpose of the 5% extension in stretching. I can usually manage twice a week because I only push myself the 5%. It is a manageable goal. This is what we all need to aim for, thus I have the "5% Rule" and I encourage you all to use it too.
Cheers,
Henry.
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Friday, December 7, 2018
Monday, March 13, 2017
Coming Back... from the Semi-Dead
Greetings,
I have been feeling like garbage of late, and every time I go and see a doctor, they seem to have either "situation not changed" or bad news to tell me. Needless to say I have been going through a bit of a bout of depression and it has been affecting things, well, a lot really. I had been finding convenient excuses not to do things, or putting things off, or just not doing things at all. So I had been coasting, doing only what I really needed to survive. In my books this is being semi-dead.
Yesterday I got back on the treadmill after an absence from it for about five months. So I decided a casual stroll would do the trick to warm things up again. So I did 20 minutes at 4.5 kph, this results in 1.49 kilometers or thereabouts. Sorry about the metric measurements, its what I mostly use. This is about where I like to start with the exercise thing. That was it.
The plan is that any night that I am at home, 6pm will roll around and my alarm on my phone will go off and I will go and get on the treadmill again. This is to get some of my long-lost endurance back again and also some fitness in my legs as well. Needless to say, as I progress the time and speed will increase, more than likely it will be the speed that increases first.
Sounds simple right, yes, it is. That is the point. You have to start simple and then work up to things. At some point in time I am hoping to advance things to a stage where I can even do the treadmill on nights when I have training and not have the threat of being too stuffed to teach of train. More to the point I started, and that is the bigger thing.
I had not started because sometime in the next year I am going to get my knee operated on which is going to put me out for some weeks at least. Next there was a threat that I might have a brain tumour, turned out to be a false alarm, YAY! My neck is still a mess so off to a neurosurgeon I go to see what can happen about that, or at least a referral will get written and I will go on a waiting list. You get the idea, things just kept piling up higher and higher (this is just the short version by the way).
Only way out of this one was to stand up and decide it was not going to run it all for me. Yes, I will end up off my feet for a while, but until then I can get back doing things and the fitness will help my recovery. Sure my neck is going to be irritating, but there are ways for coping with that. It was simply time I got off my butt and did something that I could do about it all, not wait until some medical professional said I could. There will be more training ahead for me, and more fencing too, because I can do it.
So, what can you do?
Cheers,
Henry.
I have been feeling like garbage of late, and every time I go and see a doctor, they seem to have either "situation not changed" or bad news to tell me. Needless to say I have been going through a bit of a bout of depression and it has been affecting things, well, a lot really. I had been finding convenient excuses not to do things, or putting things off, or just not doing things at all. So I had been coasting, doing only what I really needed to survive. In my books this is being semi-dead.
Yesterday I got back on the treadmill after an absence from it for about five months. So I decided a casual stroll would do the trick to warm things up again. So I did 20 minutes at 4.5 kph, this results in 1.49 kilometers or thereabouts. Sorry about the metric measurements, its what I mostly use. This is about where I like to start with the exercise thing. That was it.
The plan is that any night that I am at home, 6pm will roll around and my alarm on my phone will go off and I will go and get on the treadmill again. This is to get some of my long-lost endurance back again and also some fitness in my legs as well. Needless to say, as I progress the time and speed will increase, more than likely it will be the speed that increases first.
Sounds simple right, yes, it is. That is the point. You have to start simple and then work up to things. At some point in time I am hoping to advance things to a stage where I can even do the treadmill on nights when I have training and not have the threat of being too stuffed to teach of train. More to the point I started, and that is the bigger thing.
I had not started because sometime in the next year I am going to get my knee operated on which is going to put me out for some weeks at least. Next there was a threat that I might have a brain tumour, turned out to be a false alarm, YAY! My neck is still a mess so off to a neurosurgeon I go to see what can happen about that, or at least a referral will get written and I will go on a waiting list. You get the idea, things just kept piling up higher and higher (this is just the short version by the way).
Only way out of this one was to stand up and decide it was not going to run it all for me. Yes, I will end up off my feet for a while, but until then I can get back doing things and the fitness will help my recovery. Sure my neck is going to be irritating, but there are ways for coping with that. It was simply time I got off my butt and did something that I could do about it all, not wait until some medical professional said I could. There will be more training ahead for me, and more fencing too, because I can do it.
So, what can you do?
Cheers,
Henry.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Pain to Power
Greetings,
I know it has been quite a while since I have put anything on this blog, I have been having a lack of inspiration for anything of relevance to write. My fencing blog (afencersramblings.blogspot.com.au) seems to be so much easier to write for some reason. I am guessing that this one is personal and I do not know exactly how much of my personal stuff people want to hear about. I am really not the sort of person who likes to sit around complaining about stuff. I write here to inform and to give others ideas about how to deal with things in their own lives. So on to the subject of the current post before I get too side-tracked...
The purpose of this post is to look at how we can turn our pain into power. No, I am not talking about working a generator, I am talking about using it to motivate and to make us do more rather than withdraw into our shells as we often want to. This may seem very strange to some, as soon as the pain starts they stop because it hurts and therefore the concept that the pain can make them powerful is going to be rather alien to them. Obviously for me, not so much.
"Work through the pain." How many times have you heard this statement? It is often proposed by gym-junkies and the like when they are exercising. They are talking about pain which is developed by fatigue or a "stitch". This is not the sort of pain that people with fibromyalgia (FM) and similar conditions are familiar with. For them it is nerve pain, much more painful, and often longer lasting.
If you are reading this and think that this is an easy sort of thing to do, you are kidding yourself. It is even more difficult if you are not prone to resisting the pain and letting it have its way. The method I am proposing here is hard, and it takes time, but it is about standing up and taking power over the pain rather than letting it have all the power. No, I am not saying that you should ditch all your medications, that's crazy, but the power of your own motivation can help a hell of a lot.
I am proposing a method that works for me. Now be warned I am a stubborn sod, any one of my two siblings will tell you this, as will many of my friends. I hate being confined by things. Most of all I hate being confined by my conditions, thus I fight against them. Now a lot of the time this can land me in some hot water, you will not posts about me talking about "crashes". This is because I push the method that I am proposing to the extreme and then suffer the consequences. What I am proposing for you is to use it in a much more measured fashion. Have a go, what's the damage it can do to try?
Cheers,
Henry.
I know it has been quite a while since I have put anything on this blog, I have been having a lack of inspiration for anything of relevance to write. My fencing blog (afencersramblings.blogspot.com.au) seems to be so much easier to write for some reason. I am guessing that this one is personal and I do not know exactly how much of my personal stuff people want to hear about. I am really not the sort of person who likes to sit around complaining about stuff. I write here to inform and to give others ideas about how to deal with things in their own lives. So on to the subject of the current post before I get too side-tracked...
The purpose of this post is to look at how we can turn our pain into power. No, I am not talking about working a generator, I am talking about using it to motivate and to make us do more rather than withdraw into our shells as we often want to. This may seem very strange to some, as soon as the pain starts they stop because it hurts and therefore the concept that the pain can make them powerful is going to be rather alien to them. Obviously for me, not so much.
"Work through the pain." How many times have you heard this statement? It is often proposed by gym-junkies and the like when they are exercising. They are talking about pain which is developed by fatigue or a "stitch". This is not the sort of pain that people with fibromyalgia (FM) and similar conditions are familiar with. For them it is nerve pain, much more painful, and often longer lasting.
Step 1: Choosing
The first part of turning your pain into power is that when the pain strikes you have two choices. No, actually you really do. You can stop what you are doing, or you can continue. If what you are doing is not particularly pleasurable or you are not particularly motivated to doing it then stopping and saving your energy is probably the best option. Save your energy for battles you want to pick. If you are doing something that you want to be doing or is pleasurable to you and you are motivated to do, then not stopping is probably an option. You have to choose not to stop.Step 2: Energy
The next bit is having a look how much energy resisting is going to take and how much you have in reserve. Time to "count the spoons" as some would put it. Resisting the pain and continuing is going to take energy, and in some instances it is going to take quite a bit of it. The questions you have to ask yourself are: Do you have this energy? Are you willing to spend it? Are you willing to put up with the consequences of spending it? Is the outcome going to be worth it? The last question is actually the most important as far as I am concerned, the rest are not so important, but that is me.Step 3: Spending the Energy
Out of all of the steps this is the hard bit and takes the real determination. This is the bit where most people will feel that they have failed, or will quit trying and so forth. This is the bit where you stare the pain down and tell it who's boss. This is the bit where you look it in the eye and tell it that you are going to continue what you are doing until you want to stop, not until it wants to stop you. This is going to take determination and energy to keep going. Most importantly believe that you can do it and do it.Step 4: Downtime
After any energy expenditure you need some downtime. This will allow you to recharge the batteries a little. At this point in time you should not be thinking about how you went, only about resting and recharging. To tell you the truth, this is the bit that I have the hardest time with, I always feel that I should be doing something. Most of the time for me it is "crash"-time rather than downtime, and I do not recommend it. Take time to rest instead.Step 5: Evaluation and Preparation
After you have had some time to recharge your batteries you need to have a look at how you did. A responsible person always evaluates what they have done and learns from it. Most importantly, this is personal evaluation. You do not need to, nor should you, compare your successes with anyone else. Please notice that I have not mentioned the word "failure". If you did a little bit more than you would have done because you chose to. You have a success. The successes do not have to be big, the just have to be present. Find out what you can do differently next time to improve your situation so that you can do better. The next part is preparation and preparing to make the same choice again, because it will come around again, and you have to be willing to make the same choice again. The more you do it, the more motivated you will become and the more powerful you will become. Hence pain to power.If you are reading this and think that this is an easy sort of thing to do, you are kidding yourself. It is even more difficult if you are not prone to resisting the pain and letting it have its way. The method I am proposing here is hard, and it takes time, but it is about standing up and taking power over the pain rather than letting it have all the power. No, I am not saying that you should ditch all your medications, that's crazy, but the power of your own motivation can help a hell of a lot.
I am proposing a method that works for me. Now be warned I am a stubborn sod, any one of my two siblings will tell you this, as will many of my friends. I hate being confined by things. Most of all I hate being confined by my conditions, thus I fight against them. Now a lot of the time this can land me in some hot water, you will not posts about me talking about "crashes". This is because I push the method that I am proposing to the extreme and then suffer the consequences. What I am proposing for you is to use it in a much more measured fashion. Have a go, what's the damage it can do to try?
Cheers,
Henry.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Some Dreams Do Come True, But...
Greetings,
There are things that we all want out of life. There are things that we dream about and wish that we could have. There are some things which we cannot have and there are some which we can have. The question with regard to all of them is what are you willing to pay to get there? This entry describes something which has happened recently, which I will get to, and I will tell how I got there. However, it also will be used to see what you can do with some effort.
For many years, ever since I managed to get some experience and some students of my own, I have dreamed about running my own fencing school. This is a dream which I knew was one which was always on the outer limits of what would be possible due to many different factors. But it is one which I have thought about and talked about much. Indeed my immediate family has heard me talk about this dream a lot, and so have some of my students. I knew that this was on the outer limits due to many different factors and this is one of the reasons why it took me so long to do anything real about it.
Sure I had plans for schools many years ago, much of the documentation has been rolled into other endeavours of a similar nature, but much less long-lasting. The reason for this is because these smaller endeavours were easy and never really required much more of me than what I was doing already. So within the SCA, I have had some schools which have grown and developed. Some of these collapsed because they were too big to survive as they were, but achieved their goals. Some collapsed due to internal frictions and misunderstandings of what was required. However, as I have said these were small projects in essence. They did, however lay the foundations for what would happen later on.
If you have a dream that you want to come true, regardless of what it is, you need to put some effort into it in one way or another. Even the dream of winning millions the lotto requires you to buy at least one ticket to be in the draw. You have to be in it to win it, as has been said many times. Of course it also means that there is the chance that it will not work out, so there is the chance of failure. It is this which keeps many away, and I think what prevented me from going outside and doing what the school needed to be "real". Treat your failures as learning experiences and you will find that you can continue. This is what the failure of previous schools has taught me, and it is information that I will use.
Effort on its own will get you places, but it may not be where you want to go. You need a goal, a direction, and a plan. The goal is the end-point, the direction gives focus to your effort, and your plan guides this direction, each one is important. For some, they need to put these down on paper, for others they only need them in their heads. What I can tell you is that while the essential goal will remain the same plans will change. Plans usually change on the information given by failures or intelligences to lead you away from failures.
In my case the goal was the school, which I had for ages. The direction, well I had some to choose from, and the plan, well that was rather flexible due to the options available. In my case, what I needed was a couple of like-minded friends to really get the ball rolling and push me along a bit. They both know who they are, and they have my greatest thanks.
The school was designed to explore elements of western martial arts which were not available to practice under the current regime of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Now, some explanation. I will remain a member of the SCA as I have friends in that organisation and I still have things to give the organisation, however this school allows me to practice other things and investigate more. Also there are some out there who like the idea of some of the practices within the SCA, specifically the Guild of Defence, who are not interested in adopting personas or putting on period attire. Thus this is for them also as some of the structure and many of the teaching practices are the same as the Guild. This is the goal, in essence.
The direction was chosen much for me due to very external factors, primarily finances. The school will at least start as a non-profit organisation due to the current financial climate and available financial resources, however should the situation present itself, the school can and will move to a business platform, but this is for the future. So direction in this part was chosen, it was for similar reasons that the plan was modified.
The result, well let me just say that I have the final planning elements and collection of students and moneys to be made, but my dream has come true. Due to the approval given for insurance through the Australasian Living History Federation, I will be running my own school for western martial arts. So I can honestly say, that dreams do come true. Where I go from here, well it is one of those things that only the future can tell.
Cheers,
Henry.
There are things that we all want out of life. There are things that we dream about and wish that we could have. There are some things which we cannot have and there are some which we can have. The question with regard to all of them is what are you willing to pay to get there? This entry describes something which has happened recently, which I will get to, and I will tell how I got there. However, it also will be used to see what you can do with some effort.
For many years, ever since I managed to get some experience and some students of my own, I have dreamed about running my own fencing school. This is a dream which I knew was one which was always on the outer limits of what would be possible due to many different factors. But it is one which I have thought about and talked about much. Indeed my immediate family has heard me talk about this dream a lot, and so have some of my students. I knew that this was on the outer limits due to many different factors and this is one of the reasons why it took me so long to do anything real about it.
Sure I had plans for schools many years ago, much of the documentation has been rolled into other endeavours of a similar nature, but much less long-lasting. The reason for this is because these smaller endeavours were easy and never really required much more of me than what I was doing already. So within the SCA, I have had some schools which have grown and developed. Some of these collapsed because they were too big to survive as they were, but achieved their goals. Some collapsed due to internal frictions and misunderstandings of what was required. However, as I have said these were small projects in essence. They did, however lay the foundations for what would happen later on.
If you have a dream that you want to come true, regardless of what it is, you need to put some effort into it in one way or another. Even the dream of winning millions the lotto requires you to buy at least one ticket to be in the draw. You have to be in it to win it, as has been said many times. Of course it also means that there is the chance that it will not work out, so there is the chance of failure. It is this which keeps many away, and I think what prevented me from going outside and doing what the school needed to be "real". Treat your failures as learning experiences and you will find that you can continue. This is what the failure of previous schools has taught me, and it is information that I will use.
Effort on its own will get you places, but it may not be where you want to go. You need a goal, a direction, and a plan. The goal is the end-point, the direction gives focus to your effort, and your plan guides this direction, each one is important. For some, they need to put these down on paper, for others they only need them in their heads. What I can tell you is that while the essential goal will remain the same plans will change. Plans usually change on the information given by failures or intelligences to lead you away from failures.
In my case the goal was the school, which I had for ages. The direction, well I had some to choose from, and the plan, well that was rather flexible due to the options available. In my case, what I needed was a couple of like-minded friends to really get the ball rolling and push me along a bit. They both know who they are, and they have my greatest thanks.
The school was designed to explore elements of western martial arts which were not available to practice under the current regime of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Now, some explanation. I will remain a member of the SCA as I have friends in that organisation and I still have things to give the organisation, however this school allows me to practice other things and investigate more. Also there are some out there who like the idea of some of the practices within the SCA, specifically the Guild of Defence, who are not interested in adopting personas or putting on period attire. Thus this is for them also as some of the structure and many of the teaching practices are the same as the Guild. This is the goal, in essence.
The direction was chosen much for me due to very external factors, primarily finances. The school will at least start as a non-profit organisation due to the current financial climate and available financial resources, however should the situation present itself, the school can and will move to a business platform, but this is for the future. So direction in this part was chosen, it was for similar reasons that the plan was modified.
The result, well let me just say that I have the final planning elements and collection of students and moneys to be made, but my dream has come true. Due to the approval given for insurance through the Australasian Living History Federation, I will be running my own school for western martial arts. So I can honestly say, that dreams do come true. Where I go from here, well it is one of those things that only the future can tell.
Cheers,
Henry.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Doing Stuff
Greetings Readers,
So, the title of this one is really specific... NOT. This one is about how I deal with my condition in general and some ideas about the implementation of some of the other stuff which I have already spoken about previously. You will have to excuse the format a little as I am going to do this all off the top of my head while the ideas are flowing.
First thing about doing stuff is that it is important. It is important that you find things to do. Do not expect other people to find things for you to do, though they will in some cases. You need to find something that you want to do that is going to motivate you. This needs to be something that you are interested in and something that you are not easily distracted from. In my case I have two things, writing and fencing, or as Miyamoto Musashi would put it "the art of the pen and sword". The two work really well together.
I have all sorts of projects on the run. Some of these are for the benefit of others in the long run and some of them I am doing because I am simply interested in doing them. I will admit even the ones which are for others I do because I am also interested in them. What is really neat is when I can link on to the other.
Blogs, I have three. I have this one, I have one on fencing (http://afencersramblings.blogspot.com.au/), and I have one on Elizabethan English (http://oldewordes.blogspot.com.au/). These are designed to encourage me to write. This blog is the most personal one of the lot. The other two are more formal, though the most formal one is the Elizabethan English, for the most part. The blogs cover three different subjects and I try to make regular posts on all of them. As can be seen this ties in with my fencing... and even more than you would realise.
To be more specific I study Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) rather than modern sport fencing. This means the instructions which I read, and techniques which result from this, come from manuals from the medieval and Renaissance period. Thus rather than a foil, epee, or sabre, my primary weapon is a rapier, though I have been investigating a bit of longsword here and there. I have found this pursuit, which I started some 20 years ago, has assisted in keeping me motivated, and more to the point my FM more under control. This is because it is movement and has me being motivated relied upon it. I have fought from a chair when my legs were giving me trouble due to the FM, this is either the definition of motivation or being too stubborn for my own good.
My interest in the English of the Elizabethan period should be a little obvious, aside from the fact that I am a history nut and enjoy reading about history, more focused on medieval and Renaissance more recently. I have one particular manual which I have been studying for quite some time, Vincentio Saviolo's "His Practice in Two Books" (http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Saviolo_1595.pdf). No surprise it was published in 1595 and thus written in Elizabethan English. I am studying Elizabethan English in effect so I can understand the language better in order to decipher this manual better in order to be able to perform it better.
I have found that staying active in some form allows me to better cope with my FM and my level of fitness and health as been at least maintained, if not improved, because of this activity. Sure there are days when fencing is out, so I tend to do more research. Sure there are days when both are out, and that is time to rest. Rest is something which we all need. The point is that when it is available, and you can, you should do something with yourself, I have no doubts that this will make you feel better about yourself at least if not improve your condition.
Hey, I am not claiming that my approach works for everyone, nor am I claiming that this is some miracle cure, what I am saying is that you should give it a go and see how it goes. The feeling of accomplishment, no matter how small is an awesome feeling and it can only be good for you. Your mental state is important and constructive things which you can do to improve it can only be good.
Cheers,
Henry.
So, the title of this one is really specific... NOT. This one is about how I deal with my condition in general and some ideas about the implementation of some of the other stuff which I have already spoken about previously. You will have to excuse the format a little as I am going to do this all off the top of my head while the ideas are flowing.
First thing about doing stuff is that it is important. It is important that you find things to do. Do not expect other people to find things for you to do, though they will in some cases. You need to find something that you want to do that is going to motivate you. This needs to be something that you are interested in and something that you are not easily distracted from. In my case I have two things, writing and fencing, or as Miyamoto Musashi would put it "the art of the pen and sword". The two work really well together.
I have all sorts of projects on the run. Some of these are for the benefit of others in the long run and some of them I am doing because I am simply interested in doing them. I will admit even the ones which are for others I do because I am also interested in them. What is really neat is when I can link on to the other.
Blogs, I have three. I have this one, I have one on fencing (http://afencersramblings.blogspot.com.au/), and I have one on Elizabethan English (http://oldewordes.blogspot.com.au/). These are designed to encourage me to write. This blog is the most personal one of the lot. The other two are more formal, though the most formal one is the Elizabethan English, for the most part. The blogs cover three different subjects and I try to make regular posts on all of them. As can be seen this ties in with my fencing... and even more than you would realise.
To be more specific I study Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) rather than modern sport fencing. This means the instructions which I read, and techniques which result from this, come from manuals from the medieval and Renaissance period. Thus rather than a foil, epee, or sabre, my primary weapon is a rapier, though I have been investigating a bit of longsword here and there. I have found this pursuit, which I started some 20 years ago, has assisted in keeping me motivated, and more to the point my FM more under control. This is because it is movement and has me being motivated relied upon it. I have fought from a chair when my legs were giving me trouble due to the FM, this is either the definition of motivation or being too stubborn for my own good.
My interest in the English of the Elizabethan period should be a little obvious, aside from the fact that I am a history nut and enjoy reading about history, more focused on medieval and Renaissance more recently. I have one particular manual which I have been studying for quite some time, Vincentio Saviolo's "His Practice in Two Books" (http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/lord/pdfs/Saviolo_1595.pdf). No surprise it was published in 1595 and thus written in Elizabethan English. I am studying Elizabethan English in effect so I can understand the language better in order to decipher this manual better in order to be able to perform it better.
I have found that staying active in some form allows me to better cope with my FM and my level of fitness and health as been at least maintained, if not improved, because of this activity. Sure there are days when fencing is out, so I tend to do more research. Sure there are days when both are out, and that is time to rest. Rest is something which we all need. The point is that when it is available, and you can, you should do something with yourself, I have no doubts that this will make you feel better about yourself at least if not improve your condition.
Hey, I am not claiming that my approach works for everyone, nor am I claiming that this is some miracle cure, what I am saying is that you should give it a go and see how it goes. The feeling of accomplishment, no matter how small is an awesome feeling and it can only be good for you. Your mental state is important and constructive things which you can do to improve it can only be good.
Cheers,
Henry.
Monday, December 7, 2009
7/12/2009 - Energy Levels
Greetings,
Well, today we are going to talk about energy levels. This is a subject which is a little bit funny, especially as while I am writing it, I am really not feeling the best. One of the associated symptoms of FM is having a lack of energy. This makes it difficult to achieve things.
The lack of energy experienced may have some relation to other things that might have happened over the previous couple of days. Then the energy level might actually not. In my case, at the moment, it is attributable to a problem with a complete lot of sleep over the past couple of days and the fact I had a big weekend. On the other end of the scale, I have been fine in the morning once I got past the usual waking up issues, and then suddenly got really tired during the day.
The real problem with energy levels is where you are so tired that all you can really think to do for the day is sit in front of the TV and watch movies all day. This tends to be really annoying for me as it makes me feel that I have managed to get nothing done for the day. Of course this can lead to depression a bit, which can make things even worse. So, instead I try to look at it as a period of enforced rest, therefore resting is useful so I can be productive for the next day.
In the case of those days where there is something to do later in the day, this can be a bit tricky. This is actually the case as I am writing this. I have training to do this evening and I am hoping that if I conserve my energy during the day that it should not be too much of a problem for me. In most cases this conservation means doing only a little bit today so I get my achievement feeling, but not so much that I use to much for me to be useful this evening. I will just have to see how it goes I suppose. This pattern actually works for me for the most part.
Energy levels are something which most people can feel fluctuating as they do. The changes in energy levels for a person with FM can change quite drastically and in a short period of time. In this way it is important that this energy is managed so that the greatest benefit can be achieved from its use.
Cheers,
Henry.
Well, today we are going to talk about energy levels. This is a subject which is a little bit funny, especially as while I am writing it, I am really not feeling the best. One of the associated symptoms of FM is having a lack of energy. This makes it difficult to achieve things.
The lack of energy experienced may have some relation to other things that might have happened over the previous couple of days. Then the energy level might actually not. In my case, at the moment, it is attributable to a problem with a complete lot of sleep over the past couple of days and the fact I had a big weekend. On the other end of the scale, I have been fine in the morning once I got past the usual waking up issues, and then suddenly got really tired during the day.
The real problem with energy levels is where you are so tired that all you can really think to do for the day is sit in front of the TV and watch movies all day. This tends to be really annoying for me as it makes me feel that I have managed to get nothing done for the day. Of course this can lead to depression a bit, which can make things even worse. So, instead I try to look at it as a period of enforced rest, therefore resting is useful so I can be productive for the next day.
In the case of those days where there is something to do later in the day, this can be a bit tricky. This is actually the case as I am writing this. I have training to do this evening and I am hoping that if I conserve my energy during the day that it should not be too much of a problem for me. In most cases this conservation means doing only a little bit today so I get my achievement feeling, but not so much that I use to much for me to be useful this evening. I will just have to see how it goes I suppose. This pattern actually works for me for the most part.
Energy levels are something which most people can feel fluctuating as they do. The changes in energy levels for a person with FM can change quite drastically and in a short period of time. In this way it is important that this energy is managed so that the greatest benefit can be achieved from its use.
Cheers,
Henry.
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