Exercise & HIV/AIDS

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See also: Diet, Nutrition & HIV/AIDS

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Advice

Exercise (Regularly Updated)
From The Momentum Project, Inc.
Exercise: The Best Therapy for Managing Side Effects (September/October 2009)
How to stay active and energetic.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Exercise and HIV (April 15, 2009)
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From AIDS InfoNet
Exercise for Your Bone Health (January 2009)
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From National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Fitness Fundamentals: Guidelines for Personal Exercise Programs (2009)
From The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Growing Stronger -- Strength Training for Older Adults: Preparation (December 3, 2008)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Physical Activity and Health (December 3, 2008)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Why Strength Training? (December 3, 2008)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Exercise (December 21, 2005)
From aidsmap.com
Ten Things You Can Do to Improve Your Physical Fitness (2005)
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In Ten Simple Things You Can Do ..., from Body Positive
Sustaining Exercise (November 6, 2004)
From aidsmap.com
Exercise and HIV/AIDS (May/June 2004)
Tips on incorporating exercise into daily life.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Exercise and HIV (2003)
GMHC'S Nutrition & Wellness Program.
From Gay Men's Health Crisis
Eating for Exercise (July/August 2002)
What to eat and drink before, during and after working out.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Lift! (April 2002)
The benefits of weight training in your exercise program.
In HIV Treatment ALERTS!, from The Center for AIDS
Feelin' Stronger Every Day: Strength Training, Combating Side Effects, and Promoting Positive Change (August 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Warming Up to HIV and Exercise (February 2001)
The basics of fitness for people living with HIV.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Eye on the Finish Line: The Art of Running a Healthy Marathon (September 1999)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Tips for HIV-Positive Runners (September 1999)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Recipes for Fitness (May 1996)
How Paul Harris went from banana splits to yoga and healthier eating habits.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive

News & Research

Warning on Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances (July 28, 2009)
The FDA has warned the U.S. public to stop using any body building products that claim to contain steroids or steroid-like substances after it received reports of serious liver injury, stroke, kidney failure and pulmonary embolism (blockage of an artery in the lung) among people who took these supplements.
From U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Chicago Tribune Examines HIV-Positive Athletes in the Gay Games (July 20, 2006)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Exercise and HIV/AIDS (December 2005)
From HIV InSite
Exercise Fuels the Brain's Stress Buffers (2004)
From American Psychological Association
Exercise a Boon for Those With HIV (October 8, 2001)
In HealthScoutNews Reporter
Aerobic Exercise Helps People With HIV (Summer/Autumn 2001)
In Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Aerobic Exercise: Effects on Parameters Related to Fatigue, Dyspnea, Weight and Body Composition in HIV-Infected Adults (April 13, 2001)
In AIDS

Personal Accounts

Biking Transforms Lives of AIDS Housing Residents in Harlem (November 18, 2009)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
26 Miles on Foot: Just Another Day for an HIV-Positive Marathoner (March 18, 2008)
From Bay Windows
Marathon Man (November/December 2004)
At the age of 38 and living with HIV since 1995, Jim Pickett prepares to run his first Chicago Marathon.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pickett Fences: Phat (March/April 2004)
Jim Pickett writes about the joys of working out.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pickett Fences: Fatty Acid (July/August 2002)
Wait a second: You're gay, you've got HIV, and you're not going to a gym?!.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Pedal Power (June/July 2002)
Meet the Positive Pedalers, a group of HIV-positive cyclists who ride for life -- not only theirs, but those of others with HIV as well.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
I Ride Because I Can -- A Pos Ped Perspective (May/June 2002)
An HIV-positive AIDS ride cyclist decides to ride with the Pos Ped team.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Personal Perspective: The Road From Perfection (Spring 2002)
Six years after her HIV diagnosis, Heidi Nass realized just how key diet and exercise are to her recovery.
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In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
Trekking With AIDS, Part 3 -- A Special Report (February 2001)
An HIV-positive woman completes the Appalachian Trail.
In HIV Newsline, from San Francisco General Hospital
Living With HIV: Fit and Fighting HIV (June 2000)
"Exercise helps me to constantly feel just one step ahead of this disease".
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Trekking With AIDS, Part 2 -- A Special Report (October 1999)
Taking on the challenge of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail -- on top of the challenge of taking a five-drug-a-day antiretroviral regimen.
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
Trekking With AIDS, Part 1 -- A Special Report (August 1999)
Dawn Averitt describes taking on the challenge of hiking the entire Appalachian Trail -- on top of the challenge of remaining compliant with a five-drug antiretroviral regimen.
In HIV Newsline, from San Francisco General Hospital
Practicing Pedal Power (July 1998)
Profile of an AIDS Ride cyclist.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Gym Dandy (November 1997)
For HIV-positive people, exercise is not just recreation; it is treatment.
In Notes From the Underground, from PWA Health Group

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