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You could misread the title here, and I've already posted months ago about this. COPD is my "companion", but it is not a real companion. It's a disability.
I was trying to rack up 2 miles daily sometimes, walking three times around a local park for one mile exactly.
Now I mostly do one mile a day. My Google-Fit app with inputs of my weight and measuring time and distance reports calories burned, steps taken, and something called "heart credits" which means the exercise gave your heart a good workout.
Recent tests for pulmonary function and "the six-minute walk-test" left me with the nurse's pronouncement that there hadn't been any improvement over last year.
But I can now crank out a mile in the morning without rest stops. I may have to catch my breath for a few minutes at the end, but there's no longer any sense of dyspnea -- that suffocated feeling. Today, I only walked 2 /3 of a mile, discovered that I'd earned 2 heart credits when I can often do a full mile and get nothing in heart credits. The app told me I'd burned 1,000 calories when most full-mile days only show 900.
What do you think? If I earn 2 heart credits for only 2 /3 of a mile, does it matter if I don't walk the last circuit? It's just getting easier and easier day by day. Sometimes I'm busy, and the last turn around the park becomes a casualty.
I was trying to rack up 2 miles daily sometimes, walking three times around a local park for one mile exactly.
Now I mostly do one mile a day. My Google-Fit app with inputs of my weight and measuring time and distance reports calories burned, steps taken, and something called "heart credits" which means the exercise gave your heart a good workout.
Recent tests for pulmonary function and "the six-minute walk-test" left me with the nurse's pronouncement that there hadn't been any improvement over last year.
But I can now crank out a mile in the morning without rest stops. I may have to catch my breath for a few minutes at the end, but there's no longer any sense of dyspnea -- that suffocated feeling. Today, I only walked 2 /3 of a mile, discovered that I'd earned 2 heart credits when I can often do a full mile and get nothing in heart credits. The app told me I'd burned 1,000 calories when most full-mile days only show 900.
What do you think? If I earn 2 heart credits for only 2 /3 of a mile, does it matter if I don't walk the last circuit? It's just getting easier and easier day by day. Sometimes I'm busy, and the last turn around the park becomes a casualty.
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