For people with COPD, exercise is very important. Check with your doc before you start a program and be sure you know any limitations he wants you to observe. The point of the exercise is to increase your endurance and stamina, so time is the critical point here. You need to be doing at least two types of exercise: aerobic exercise, like walking and strengthening exercises for the upper, lower and core muscle groups.

For aerobic exercise, walking is the easiest and anyone can do it. Your first goal is to walk for 30 minutes without stopping. Most of us can't do that, so we begin where we are and walk slowly for as long as you can before you stop to catch your breath. Note the time, and then do it again and again for the same amount of time until you've walked 30 minutes. Repeat fo five days to a week and then add some time before you stop; however much time you think you can manage. Keep doing that until you can walk 30 minutes without stopping. Then you can add speed, distance or time.

For strengthening exercises, you can google the terms and find more things than you could do in a lifetime, with weights, resistance bands or without. You can find chair exercises if that's easier. You need to spend about 30 minutes on each muscle group each week.

There are basically two reasons you get short of breath (sob). One is that your O2 sats are going down and the fix is more O2. The other is that you're trapping stale air. If your O2 sats are good and you're sob, don't turn your O2 up, it won't do any good and it could do some harm. As long as your sats are good you can keep going for as long as you can stand it. Proper breathing techniques (pursed lip and diaphragmatic) breathing are very important to learn and to do all the time you're exercising. If you haven't figured it out by now, for people with COPD, the exhale is the most important part of breathing. You want that exhale to be at least twice as long as the inhale through pursed lips like you were blowing soup or playing the flute.

Housework usually doesn't count as exercise because you stop and start. Exercising for people with COPD needs to be continuous and you're looking to increase your endurance and stamina, so continuous for a significant amount of time is really important.

I hope this answers most questions........

I'm afraid so, a nurse explained to me many years ago that our lungs 🫁 are another Muscle and must be excersised as much as possible, I first shielded las year from march to August, as this was our spring and summer I worked diligently in my Garden, the Government ordered me to shield again from November to April, with the cold and darkness, no more gardening,,when I returned to work I was so unfit it took over 4 months to get my lungs working again, definitely should have kept fit somehow, anyway take care.

I was leaving the house about a half hour before my husband with the dog we would walk until he drove up back before the moves.
Worked great! I will start implementing this again on our way to town, starting with 15 minutes. Sometimes I would do it on the way home depending on the circumstances. I never realized how much my energizer bunny personality kept me breathing better. I have to recapture that, one real small step at a time and honour my body when it says enough, rest.

I went to pulmonary rehab 2 times a week for 2 months and it woke up my exercise desire. After I completed the rehab I started walking, a short distance at first and everyday I went further and further. Today I walked twice, once in the am and once in the pm. 7.67 miles total. Exercise has been my savior. Maybe a little walk each day, practice perched breathing and be kind to yourself. I hope you get some relief. Good evening new friend.

I find breathing exercises help a lot with breathing!! If I don't do some every few days I'll get wheezy and sob!! You can even do them when you're watching TV!