Take a page from my "Dealing with PT Dummies" guidebook.
Whenever some physical therapy "professional" attempts to advocate exercise in dealing with ME/CFS/FM, I ask them if they know what the anaerobic threshold is. Most of the time, they answer in the affirmative.
Then I ask them what specific forms of exercise they would prescribe to a patient with an anaerobic threshold of 92 bpm.
Their response:
Many of us have had the Snell/Stevens CPET Two-Day testing. We know we can't handle aerobic exercise.
And trying to do physical strength training while keeping the HR below that threshold is really tough!
For me, I can only do Pilates reclined or sitting, some yoga, and some Feldenkrais stretching. That's it.
I doubt these ACE muscle brains can figure out the screwed up anaerobic threshold in our disease.
