Working Out With Asthma

A lot of people have struggled with their weight for most of their lives and feel like they need to get a handle on it. As you get closer to 30, you feel like your window of opportunity is getting smaller.

One of the big main obstacles I’ve run into with my boot camps is people with asthma. Some people are diagnosed with asthma as a baby and even though the doctors all said they’ll grow out of it, they never do. It really does put limits on your life. After a few serious attacks, most people will get a steroid shot just to keep their lungs from seizing up.

None of these people want excuses to hold the back, but they do feel like they have to tread lightly when tackling exercise. It is frustrating that just as they feel like they can begin to really take a first step in conquering the weight issue, there is another issue that comes up and keeps them from making any progress.

So what can you do and what is a good starting point?

In my experience working with severe asthmatics, what they want more than weight loss is just to feel healthy. To be able to do things. To do things without worrying about an attack and to not feel so limited all the time.

My suggestion is to start small wherever you are with exercise and diet at the same time. Make your workout routine a combination of cardiovascular work and circuit resistance training. Don’t be scared to push yourself to shortness of breath but make sure you have full control of how far you push yourself.

The first steps in diet are to simply up your water intake, eat 5-6 small meals a day and make sure you have 40:30:30 percentage ratio of carbohydrates to proteins to fats when doing your diet planning.

Relatively quickly you will notice that the two combined will start to take the weight off and this then also allows you to do more before your body feels it is working hard. Thus allowing you to do more and on and on it goes.

I’ve seen losses of 30 pounds in five months with this approach in persons with severe asthma.