Cardiac Rehab. - feeling the love!
"Whereas the first time I did the rehab. it was on the ground floor, it had now been moved to the 4th floor and I was determined to always use the stairs everywhere, it might have only been four floors but it took at about 108 steps (I know because I counted them) to get there so by the time you stumbled into the waiting room you could always rely on some-one to greet you with .. "you came up the stairs, didn't you!".
The attendees within the group were all at different stages in their recovery which meant a regular change of who you were with week to week as people left or joined over the 6 week period. Even so, you still get to know each other to a degree and a kind of self-help bond develops within the group. The exercises are designed around you own condition and level of recovery and decided during a brief one-to-one consultation with Fiona, the cardiac nurse, on your weeks progress before the classes begin, when you are given a sticker to wear showing a number of hearts and crosses.
....... Each participant was on a different program as depicted by the hearts & crosses on their sticker so you could be moving around the timed circuit differently from each other, each exercise station carried either a heart (cardiovascular exercise) or a cross (active recovery) and you were supposed to know your next exercise by following the sequence on symbols on your sticker (easy? – yeah!). I for one could never really work out where I should be or when to move to the next station and always be told ‘No, you should be over there!’"
Extract taken from my 'Heart attack to 10K blog' ... peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-year-that-was-part-...
Cardiac Rehab. - feeling the love!
"Whereas the first time I did the rehab. it was on the ground floor, it had now been moved to the 4th floor and I was determined to always use the stairs everywhere, it might have only been four floors but it took at about 108 steps (I know because I counted them) to get there so by the time you stumbled into the waiting room you could always rely on some-one to greet you with .. "you came up the stairs, didn't you!".
The attendees within the group were all at different stages in their recovery which meant a regular change of who you were with week to week as people left or joined over the 6 week period. Even so, you still get to know each other to a degree and a kind of self-help bond develops within the group. The exercises are designed around you own condition and level of recovery and decided during a brief one-to-one consultation with Fiona, the cardiac nurse, on your weeks progress before the classes begin, when you are given a sticker to wear showing a number of hearts and crosses.
....... Each participant was on a different program as depicted by the hearts & crosses on their sticker so you could be moving around the timed circuit differently from each other, each exercise station carried either a heart (cardiovascular exercise) or a cross (active recovery) and you were supposed to know your next exercise by following the sequence on symbols on your sticker (easy? – yeah!). I for one could never really work out where I should be or when to move to the next station and always be told ‘No, you should be over there!’"
Extract taken from my 'Heart attack to 10K blog' ... peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-year-that-was-part-...