Good workouts for someone who is disabled but wants to tone up?

gurohound
gurohound Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise

Hihi, wanting to engage here and see if anyone had any tips on the best ways for someone like me to exercise and tone up, especially my stomach for... well, confidence, lol. I have an autoimmune disease that generally makes me very fatigued and weak. It attacks my organs and I've gone into multiple organ failure from it once before. I have this massive surgical incision on my abdomen that I really hate the appearance of with the fat on my stomach making the scar cave inward, if you know what I mean? It looks ugly and weird lol. I feel if I toned my stomach up a bit more, it'd maybe look better, at least to me! Can't hurt to try, anyways.

That being said, though, with my fatigue and muscle weakness from having surgery multiple times every year from 2021 to now, I'm stuck on what exercises would both be beneficial to me and not utterly kill me on the disability side of things. I have now gone this whole year without one single surgery, the first time in a while, and hopefully this doesn't jinx my *kitten*. But since I'm finally at a point where I think it'll be okay to workout, I want to try to! I just really don't know where to start in terms of not destroying myself.

Notes:

• The only exercise equipment I have is my own body and a treadmill. If it's something my apartment's fitness center might have, though, then definitely suggest away! I'm cool to have to borrow their stuff haha.

• Not sure if it shows gender and age on my profile on here, but if it helps at all, I'm twenty-three and a man.

Thanks at all if anyone can help me out, even just suggestions are great. Somewhere to start, yanno? Any support, ideas, etc. are greatly appreciated!

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  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,919 Member

    I also have a big abdominal scar, so I understand the weirdness of it and how skin, muscle and fat can fold around it. Here’s the good news - you don’t need to exercise to lose fat. You just need a calorie deficit and gradually the fat will go - even around the scar. Walking on your treadmill is great and I’d encourage that when you can do it, not least because active blood flow helps to reduce swelling on old surgical sites.

    Here’s the bad news: your scar might always look a little weird. If your muscles healed a little unevenly after surgery your tummy might never lie completely flat - even if you had a six pack. I still get some swelling 11 years on so I need to perform lymphatic massage, and my stomach fat sort of folds around my scar.

    I have managed to maintain a good BMI and it greatly reduces the appearance of the scar, and I celebrated two years survival after the surgery with a tattoo all the way across it. If I’m going to have something alien on my abdomen, then I decided to take control and put something I liked there!

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