A few years ago one of my clients asked me to join her facebook group. It was a group of people from all over the world that either had some sort of medical condition or had overcome some sort of adversity in their lives and they were trying to navigate their new lives now that things were different for them. She asked me if I could design some exercise programs that some of the people in the group could do, she thought the exercises might be helpful for many of them, I agreed because consistent exercise is the one thing that can help almost any medical condition, even fix or cure the condition directly, it can still help people become more functional and help them mentally as well. So I wrote a few very basic and short exercise programs that didn’t require any equipment, with relatively easy exercises like arm circles, wall push-ups and practicing standing up out of a chair, things that were probably closer to activities of daily living more so than what most people would consider exercise. I posted them in the group forum and went on with my day. The next day when I checked in to see if anyone had any questions or needed guidance there were about 30 comments that were all some form of this:
I can’t do this exercise routine, because I can’t do this one exercise This exercise hurts my shoulder, hip, foot, fingers or some other body part Are there any easier exercises than this, these are too hard?
I understand exercise can be challenging and that this group of people would need something especially gentle, so I gave them a program, that was short, basic and basically the same as a program I would give and have given clients in their 80’s and 90’s.
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