So the next question is, I've lost a lot of muscle and strength because I've been sick for a long time.
How can I get my strength back and prevent further muscle wastage?
Well, you've got to start slow to begin with. That's number one.
That's the first thing. You can't go fast.
So building muscle takes a little time.
If you've been atrophied because you've been sick or bedridden or in the bed too long or on the couch too long,
you've got to start baby steps.
You have to take little walks to start with.
Even walks, depending on your condition, if you barely can walk, then it's little walks
around the house, just to the bathroom and to the bed.
You could do better than that.
It's little walks around the property or around your neighborhood, around the yard or in the
park.
Either way, it's all about getting those first walks, initial walks, and getting that starting
point.
That's number one.
Then what I've noticed is basic household chores as being the best way to start it off,
not going to weights or anything like that.
When you're atrophied and you've had muscle wastage, you just want to do basic household
chores.
So you're doing some dishes and you're putting away some things and doing the dishwasher
or whatever it is, doing laundry.
These basic household chores start building muscle, and especially when you don't have much muscle.
That's before you kind of move on to a little bit of gentle resistance training or strength training.
Pocket Gym is something I like, P-O-C-K-E-T-G-Y-M.
I've used it for years.
This keeps me strong.
It's 10 minutes once a day, and it's for people who, you know, it's for two groups of people.
for people who are already strong and lots of muscle.
And what it does is it stabilizes their immune system,
stabilizes their endocrine system,
strengthens their muscles still,
even if people have muscle.
But I also like it for people who don't have any muscle
or they're building on it
and they're just getting into it again.
I feel it's very gentle, very safe,
but actually strong and effective.
So that's one thing, pocketgym.com.
so but the bottom line is is when we get atrophied we have to feed those muscles too
so you have to be cautious about your diet that's a really good question muscles feed off of let me
see if you can guess they feed off of i bet you a lot of people thought protein no muscles don't
feed off a protein. We only build muscles from two things and two things only. We build muscle
from using them. That's one thing. So using your muscles, that's how we build it. And the other
is glucose. That's sugar. So glucose in our bloodstream, our blood sugar feeds the muscle.
That's what it thrives off. That's why football players have a lot, a really high carbohydrate
diet during season. Have to have a carbohydrate diet during season or they're not going to be able
to run down the field, sustain their muscle, have enough fuel. And I don't mean low quality
carbohydrates are not good for anybody. I'm talking about high quality ones. So what I'm
trying to say is if you've lost a lot of muscle, make sure there's some different things in there
that can feed the muscle again. Make sure there's some sweet potato. That's a great one to feed
muscle. Winter squash, like butternut squash, that feeds muscle. So you want to make sure there's
some portions of that in your diet. Avocado, that feeds muscles really good. And then you want some,
and then you want not only that in your diet, but you want enough hydration. You get dehydrated,
the muscles also starve. Muscles are water filled. They have water in them. That's how it works. So
we want enough hydration between hydration and also the right foods incorporated apples are a
really good one for feeding muscles that's a fantastic one that's a great one carrots are
really great for feeding muscles so carrots so you can have steamed carrots you can have carrot juice
these things build muscle faster and they give you better recovery time and you can eat anything in
your diet that you like, of course, as long as there are different healthy foods, whether
you're eating plant proteins or animal proteins or fruits and vegetables, whatever it is, but you
have to know what builds muscle and that's what this is about. And so that's number one. And then
number two is you take baby steps, gently working on your stride. You take your walks and you build
yourself up. And then eventually you'll get into more things. You never know. You might get down
to Pilates. You might get down to some yoga. Gentle yoga is another great way of building
muscles, keeping muscles strong. That's fantastic. Elliptical machine. That's a possibility.
I'm spinning bikes and then you got, get your chance to go, go for the gold. That's for sure.
And then more resistance muscle work. You can do it. You can do it. And people who already are
doing some of that fantastic. And I applaud you and I'm proud of you, proud of everybody.
and rebounding i really like to rebound builds interskeletal muscles when you lose your muscles
and you start rebounding gently that's one way of bringing muscles back and not just for people
who've lost muscles but people who got tons of muscle rebounding is one of the best exercise
pieces of equipment we have to date so that's the other the other option and then you stay at peace
when you can and you have patience it's the other thing finally if you've lost a lot of muscle and
you're building exercise, you've got to have the patience and, you know, and be calm. It takes time
to build muscle, but before you know it, it starts to happen. But fantastic question. Fantastic
question.
