I do 18-24 reps of 25 exercises. These are gentle stretching, toning and strengthening exercises.

I started doing the first 10 exercises with no more than 10 reps. I stayed at this level for 1 week. I began adding more of the exercises, without more than 10 reps. After 4 weeks, I started adding 1-2 reps every 3rd day.

It took months to get to the full amount of reps.

This was part of a one year long pain management class.

What type of exercises are you doing now? I was taught to very slowly build up my exercises. If you do too much too fast and you have a flare, it can discourage you from doing any more.

Gentle hugs

I walk when I can and how much I can. Even if its not every day its better then not doing anything.

Once the weather cools off I will start walking again, but I do yoga everyday. It depends on my mood and pain level what type of yoga I do. If i'm in a lot of pain I will do gentle stretching or yoga for winding down. If i'm feeling pretty good then I will do an intermediate version of yoga. I just try to keep some aspects of my life as normal as possible. I've always been a workout person and to have to almost give it up really took a toll on me. But now that I've learned other ways to channel my workout spirit I've found that yoga is perfect for me. I also do pilates, but sometimes I find it a bit more intense than yoga. Hope this helps.

Right now, I swim. Once the pool is closed for the season, I am going to try a sit down exercise DVD for seniors to see how that goes. I also have a chair yoga DVD which looks promising. Take care.

I began with a few minutes of yoga a day long ago.

Then worked up to half an hour of yoga a day for 15 years.

I took a looong time to build up to doing handweights or mat workouts. I started the weights without weights, in fact, just doing the motions.... and mat workouts started at 5 minutes, worked up to 45.

Since my 2011 disabling-the-hip accident, however, yoga and many mat things are out of reach, so I YouTubed exercises for paraplegics, surgery recovery, whatever was gonna be "soft" on the damaged parts.

Slow, steady, and slow.

One person here long ago had great advice: watch TV. During commericals, stand up and do the exercises. Watch the show. Given how many commercials TV has, that can backfire, LOL, but it was a great intro to the concept of "do a few minutes here and there, until you can do the minutes all in a row".

Yoga, pilates, tai chi, warm water therapy pools, all excellent options.

Just remember, Fibro means your muscle already feel like you had a workout. So it's like adding onto a hard workout. You don't do it in big steps.

Luck and blessing.