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Apart from swimming I do pushups.

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Nope.

I am very slowly building up my strength after a series of heart attacks and heart surgery since last July.

It has also left me with heart failure and a plug in my femoral artery and a blockage in the other one.

I will survive, but will take some time to find out how much I can exercise.

Onwards and upwards is the name of the game.

Realisation is also relevant, I know what I cannot do now and know what they have told me I will not be able to do again.

I intend to beat them, but the realization is that I will not be going backpacking for a month in Jungle again.

I will never be strong enough to catch a World Record Great White Shark, which was on my bucket list.

A sailfish, maybe.

I will still have great fun.

I enjoy every day when I wake up.

So many places still to see and explore in the UK and on shorthaul.

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Good luck with your recovery. I know from personal experience it can be difficult at times. Just take a day at a time

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Hi

You are an inspiration, I have a dread of wheelchairs, I am as awkward as they come.

It is difficult to credit the amount of pain I have been through to show I did not need one.

It is just a me thing, stupid but important.

You have made a much better job of things than I have.

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We all make the best of things in our own way. Nobody can compare themselves to others unless they've been through exactly the same process.

Just keep doing the best you can.

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Unable to run at the moment Ullabi, but I'm taking inspiration from you. This will be my 43rd year as a runner, I also have suffered two heart attacks in the past and bounced back. The fat lady has not started to sing yet by no means....

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I tried handbiking on a holiday in Germany. Great fun

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It's been 8 weeks today since I last had a decent run, but feeling some improvement in my buttock I jogged around a short one mile route on Tuesday. It was fairly uncomfortable and I've lost lot's of fitness, but I held on and completed the course.

With no lasting aches and pains overnight, I gave it another go yesterday and managed to knock half a minute of Tuesday's time....

So this morning I went for the big one.....
2 miles round the village, it felt like the last two miles of my hardest marathon, and although I've made it ache a bit I can rest from running for the next two days and see how it goes. All being well, I should be ready for a Sunday run... I didn't realise that running was this hard....

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Aw, Swimfeeders I'm sorry to hear about the health problems you are enduring. Fear not, you'll get through. I was in the same situation as you as regards a heart attack and a blocked artery several years back, and when I was recovered from that I have multiple blood clots in each lung. The blood clots came close to killing me than the heart attack did, but I got over those too.

I was very cautious when I went to a proper gym again in 2019, but was doing pretty well before Lockdown. Like everyone else I lost a lot of progress and had to build up from scratch again a few weeks ago, but I'm getting there. Pace yourself and you'll be fine. Best of luck!

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I'm so bad lately, the nearest thing to exercise I've done is exercise my gob chatting. I really need to get back on track, I gained a few pounds boohoo