What are benefits of riding a unicycle?

[fynger]

@giocologgi

Hi friend,
Generally speaking, (quoted from somewhere)
" Physical activity is a very important part of therapy in the treatment of breathlessness and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease). When practiced for two hours per week, it has an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant effect that results in a significant improvement in respiratory symptoms".
(more data here:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25705944

Unicycling can be physical challenging and can leave you breathless, as it can be walking or climbing stairs (depending on degree of yout COPD).
If you’re learning, the effort is obviously higer, but when you’re more experienced it’s clearly easier.
My advice (I’m a chest surgeon) is to go on practicing (well, I don’t know you and your medical data…). Take your time, when you’re breathless take a rest, stop, breathe. When you’re ready, go!
Unicycling, being an aerobic activity (exlcuding trials, some muni or other activity with fast movements), is absolutely a good thing for you, because it strenghten your core muscles, your respiratory muscles, your breathing cycle and so on.
Maybe a heart monitoring (a normal sport watch ca do that) during sport is good for you, so you can see how “tired” (when your frequency is too high) is your heart when you’re breathless, to avoid overtraining and potential damages.

Nic

Thank you…yes I am just learning, and my breathing is quite bad at times…thanks for the Advice, slowly goes it for me then.