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This week, beckym82 asked:

I have fibromyalgia so struggle with finding the right exercise. What would you recommend I do to improve my overall fitness?

Thanks for the question Becky.

It is very important to exercise with Fibromyalgia. However, it appears that many people either exercise too much or not enough, the key to it is consistency.

In order to understand which types of fibromyalgia exercise are the best, we first need to remind ourselves of the two main symptoms; anxiety and pain.

Great exercises that appear to help your symptoms are yoga, Pilates, biking and walking. As with any exercise routine, do not try and do too much too soon. Try and create a consistent, effective and progressive program.

Exercising with fibromyalgia may be difficult at first, but you will begin to feel more healthy and notice that you have more energy.

With fibromyalgia, exercise becomes very important in healing because a proper exercise routine will help you:

* Strengthen ligaments and tendons and enhance muscle tone

* Increase flexibility

* Increase blood flow to muscle tissue

* Increase endorphins released by the hypothalamus, healing with natural pain-relieving and sleep-deepening effects and healing some of the anxiety, depression and pain associated with fibromyalgia

* Decrease risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart attack and stroke

* Promote weight loss, and reduce stress on your joints.

Good luck.