Learn how to exercise without worsening your symptoms.
Exercising in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a delicate matter. If you push yourself beyond your boundaries or engage in the wrong types of exercise, it can make you worse. If you do it right, however, it becomes an essential piece of you reaching your optimum health.
“It is very important for my patients to know how to approach exercise in a safe way…. if they don’t exercise, they will only get worse.” ~ Dr. Nancy Klimas
Recently I visited the IACFS/ME, the world’s largest conference on ME/CFS, and attended a workshop by exercise physiologist Stacy Stevens, MA, who was the first researcher to study a way of exercising that is safe and effective for people with ME/CFS. Stevens has dedicated the last twenty-five years of her career to exploring what causes post-exertional malaise in ME/CFS and what type of safe exercises people with the condition can engage in to avoid worsened symptoms after exercise. Inspired by what I learned in her workshop, I completely updated my free e-course lesson on How to Benefit from Exercise When You Have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).
The updates on how to exercise safely and effectively
Here are the pieces I updated or added to the course:
- A reference to an excellent video series on how you can apply the exercise protocol first developed by Stacy Stevens to your situation. In the video series, you’ll learn how to apply the exercises while following a patient’s journey with the protocol. The video is filmed at the clinic of leading ME/CFS researcher and clinician Nancy Klimas, PH.D..
- A new section on smart ways to increase your amount of exercise when you’re ready.
- A list of therapeutic exercises to choose from (including videos). One of the “exercises” you can benefit from even if you’re bed-bound right now.
What else is in the updated lesson?
The following has already been part of this comprehensive e-course lesson on exercise prior to the update:
- Why exercise is essential for reaching your optimum health.
- How to begin exercising “the right way,” without harming your body.
- How to make exercise fun and easy.
- How to sidestep my mistakes (for the longest time, exercising was one of my blind spots).
- How to get started with exercise in four simple steps.
To have a quick look and see if you can learn something valuable from this lesson, click here. If you would like to join over 258 people in the free e-course that this lesson is a part of, click here to learn more.
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Do you have any experience with people with CFS taking ATP fuel by Resesarched Nutritionals? Is it truly beneficial beyond a placebo effect? I can’t seem to find any reviews by patients who are actually taking it (other than 1 person after 1 week). My doctor thinks that some of his patients have gotten results but it is very expensive. I would like someone else’s opinion.
Hi Peggy,
I hadn’t heard about this supplement before, but just a couple of hours ago, someone shared with me in response to this article that ATP Fuel by the brand you mentioned helped increase her exercise tolerance.
On phoenix rising there are also some people reporting that it works for them:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/researched-nutritionals-atp-fuel-or-nt-factor-energy.19319/
My take: ATP Fuel sounds like one of the more promising supplements for ME/CFS. It will probably work for some/a few people.
I hope this helpful.
I find doing walking/hiking, doing some hobby and doing high intensity strength training help a lot.
Glad to hear what works for you, Jared. Keep it up 🙂