For almost anyone else, structured exercise is entirely beneficial, but for our group, exercise, especially intense cardio or weight training is damaging and is to be avoided.
I don't want or convince anyone to be a couch potato, which is still worse, but there is a distinct limit to the amount and types of exercise that are beneficial for this group.
It's great shame in my view as I love exercising, and love to take it to the extreme, pushing my limits, breaking my own personal targets and testing myself against what I, or others believe is possible. I'm pretty sure I was addicted to endorphins (the feelgood hormones which are released when we exercise), but stimulating massive hormone release is nothing but bad for someone with my condition.
I found this out the hard way by exercising intensively 6 days per week – simply adding to the imbalance and ripping muscles, causing wear on my joints and inducing additional fatigue which my body was in no position to repair.
It’s helpful to remember the following:
- - the syndrome centres around an imbalance in hormones, thus anything which triggers a large hormone release is to be avoided – intensive (especially anerobic exercise) triggers large doses of cortisol, adrenaline, testosterone, endorphins and is therefore counterproductive
- - a healthy body is designed to repair damage done during exercise (the whole premise of body conditioning is that you push muscles to the limit in order to build them back stronger each time), but the body in this state is not able to repair or rebuild, meaning that damage is cumulative and does no good whatsoever.
The inability of the body to process and effectively use nutrients taken through the diet means that there is just no 'good stuff' available to support over exertion.
As a result, gentle exercise and continuous movement are far more beneficial than short sessions – think a long walk in the countryside rather than sprint running, yoga rather than weight training, swimming rather than aerobics.
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