Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis

Exercise tips for all abilities with Dom Thorpe | S4E7


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Dom Thorpe has been working with MS patients to help improve their lives through health and fitness coaching since 2008. He was raised by his mother, who had MS for as long as he can remember and has made helping people with MS his career choice after seeing the effects MS had on his mother. He’s the creator of The MS Warrior Program, which has been completed by over 1,000 people with MS since its launch in 2018. 

  

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Topics and Timestamps:

02:00 Can you tell us a little bit about how you became a fitness trainer?  

03:42 What are you doing now in the fitness space? Tell us about your online fitness enterprise.  

06:58 One of your target audiences are people with MS. Do you have any personal connection to MS?  

13:12 Overcoming MS promotes evidence-based lifestyle modification for improving health with MS. And one of the pillars of that is exercise. How does increasing exercise and movement correlate to improvements in MS symptoms? Do you see improvements in clients? 

17:17 Tell us a bit about your MS Warrior Program. Does it suit all levels of ability?  

22:23 How do your programs deal with different ability levels? Because you're getting from wheelchair users to people who can run. 

25:10 If you could distill your fitness expertise into 3 key tips for people with MS of any ability who want to develop some sort of regular exercise or movement regimen, what might these be?  

  

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  • Learn more about Dom’s fitness training programs, including the MS Warrior Program here  
  • Access free MS Fitness Essentials here  
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