@bleubirdz Thank you! I get you, small steady progress is what’s sustainable. But eventually you also get to look back and realise it added up to something way bigger
I hope you find something that works for you - your QOL over all else! To me, fitness progress is just one facet of that.
My husband has AS. I've tried getting him into lifting weights because I've read a few others with this condition saying it helped them a lot. But lifting just isn't his thing. He manages his symptoms very well with a No Starch Diet and also Low Dose Naltrexone (has done wonders).
So happy to hear that he’s found ways to manage his symptoms too (lifting isn’t everyone’s cup of tea for sure). For me, biologics were life-changing - I’ve been on cycles of one called Simponi for the past 4 years
@princev79 My first pullup took me about a month of dedicated training. Every other day or so I did a few negatives (once I stopped getting bad DOMS from them), plus scapular pullups most of those days. I was doing resistance training (Caroline Girvan's) a few times a week at the same time, which probably helped.
Getting a pushup wasn't as big a personal goal for me so I didn't do dedicated pushup training, I managed my first after ~2.5 months of going to the gym and doing chest exercises. I've heard that negatives (lowering yourself to the ground as slow & controlled as possible) work well for pushups too though!
