Exercise

Muscle strength and stamina are important factors in how much your CMT will affect you later in life.

Teenage years are the easiest time for building up strength and endurance as your blood is full of growth hormones and adrenaline. If you push yourself now, you will feel it for a few days but you will get continued benefit for years to come.

If it’s hard to motivate yourself, visualise yourself in 5 years time – If you carry on in the same way will your legs hurt more or less than they do now?

Don’t think of exercise as something about losing weight or having big muscles – just doing something to keep muscles stretched and joints flexible.

Exercise does help, it really does!

Check out this new guide, published by our friends at the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, for lots of hints and tips. I know it says for adults, but lots of it will work for you too.