Cardiac Rehabilitation classes

I was born disabled visible because of my limbs and invisible ones as well plus born with small hole in the side of my heart one of the flaps didn't close before I was born . Have PAF as well.
But started exercising in 2018 it was Age UK community fit club . The instructor gave me a chair to hold on to for leg exercises and sat down for arms .

I moved over 100 miles went to sit fit class which closed due to covid . The my council does active ageing exercise classes GP referral was for 12.werks .

Last 3 years been going to a sit fit class and for a year to a move it or lose it class. Like both classes as do different work outs . Plus I do 7 exercises daily and 500 rotations on my static pedals everyday . Even do the 7 exercises when I go away. I want to keep my mobility.

My sit fit has people with disabilities and health problems but that doesn't stop us doing all the exercises and sit fit is not an easy option. My neurologist, cardiologist and GP are happy I go to both classes .

Move or lose it has some people with minor health problems but others have complex health problems but think I am the only one classed as disabled. I can't do some of the exercises our instructors way so do my own way.

I am fitter at 67 than I was at 50. But it's important to me to kept my mobility and my independence.

January last year was in hospital for a week when the physio came to see for discharge they asked me if I exercised . Told them what I did they said in that case you don't need us. Don't know if this answers what you wanted.

Have you checked out the British Heart Foundation's website? It's a mine of information and has a forum too. Here's a link to the British Heart Foundation's Cardiac Rehabilitation page

What is cardiac rehabilitation - BHF share.google/WFU4ngquh0hvgKPOf

If you have been referred to the Cardiac Rehabilitation team, please go. I have worked with this team who were all Nurses who had all worked on a Cardiac Ward. They have all undertaken extra Modules to hold these classes.
Depending on the local Cardiologist views this team will advise you, so you can slowly get you back to Healthy living, with Diet, Exercise with support and advice. The team I worked with also had the direct feed into the Cardiologist's.
Worth doing 100%, great team and all the patients loved it.

The difficulty we had with the cardiac classes and continually since is that no one takes into account any other problems the patient had.

DH had a heart attack about 5 years ago. The hospital gave him an antibiotic resistance infection while doing the bypass surgery that left him semi conscious for 6 weeks with tubes everywhere especially in one of his lungs . He had to have further operations and his breast bone is split and out of alignment and he is in constant pain.

Despite this all the cardiac rehabilitation takes no account of the fact that the lung damage means he has breathing problems and cannot walk any distance, cannot go out walking in very cold weather, nor the debilating effect of the permanent pain in his chest.

Even now, he is under the care of the local heart failure clinic, at every check up they ask about exercise and we, or rather I have to explain his limitations. in fact he does quite a lot of exercise indoors. he is an inveterate DIYer and with a recent house purchase that needs work, he spend most days wandering round the house doing small DiY jobs, which require step stools, no ladders, tools, visits to walk round B&q.

But we wish the cardiac people would look outside their boxes and realise that people with cardiac problems often have other problems that interact and limit the kind of rehabilitation they can do.