00:00So how much do you think you eat in a day?
00:03Well, I feed him.
00:05So I get two lots of fruit
00:08and we definitely have the five serves of veg during the week.
00:11So it's during the day.
00:13So we will have some, well, tomatoes are fruit,
00:16but we'll have fruit and avocado, tomato for breakfast.
00:20There's always vegetables for lunch
00:23and there's a lot of vegetables for dinner,
00:25plus protein and carbohydrates.
00:27As far as minutes of exercise per day,
00:32do you think you'd be getting the recommended amount of that as well?
00:35Absolutely, yeah.
00:36Most of our exercise is either walking or cycling.
00:40The average cycling session would probably be two and a bit hours.
00:45So you've got your 120 minutes.
00:46A couple of times a week.
00:46A couple of times a week.
00:48We walk for at least an hour.
00:51Also a couple of times a week.
00:54Then there's the incidental exercise.
00:56Mowing lawns.
00:58People tend to overlook the incidental exercises that they do.
01:04Walking up and down the stairs at home,
01:06mowing the lawns, cleaning windows.
01:09Housework generally counts as exercise.
01:13Looking after your 100-year-old mum
01:15or while she's in full-time care,
01:18Irene's still basically running around four days a week
01:23doing the incidental things, the paperwork, shopping, things like that.
01:29But life does get in the way.
01:33I try to incorporate two serves of vegetables and fruit throughout my day.
01:38Mainly during breakfast, I'd have a fruit and then after dinner.
01:41So it's top and bottom end of the day.
01:43With lots of uni work, life can get pretty busy.
01:47It's definitely hard to find time to have exercise and time to yourself.
01:52In the morning, I like to put a lot of fruit and veggies in my breakfast to fill me up.
01:56And then also it's just a convenient snack during the day is fruit and veggies.
02:01So yeah.
02:02It's like I love walking and going to the gym.
02:04So I used to play netball but not anymore.
02:07But it's all right.
02:08Just uni and commitments take up a lot of my day.
02:12So that's all right.
02:13And work.
02:14So lack of routine, I think, is hard to fit it in.
02:19Yeah, just making it a priority.
02:21Exercise.
02:21Do you think you'd get the recommended amount of exercise per day?
02:24Definitely not.
02:25There you go.
02:26How much do you think you'd get in a week?
02:28It's hard to say because just pushing around in the wheelchair
02:33and doing everyday things is quite strenuous.
02:36So it kind of counts as exercise somewhat, I guess.
02:39But I don't actually officially really get out
02:44and go and push around on footpaths or anything.
02:47What would be the barrier for you?
02:50They're just, they're not level.
02:53The footpaths aren't level?
02:54Yeah, it's the hills and unlevel ground is definitely a barrier.
03:01Because you cannot, you can't control the intensity of your workout.
03:08And you're saying gyms, is that a...
03:10There's no such thing as wheelchair.
03:13Not that I know of.
03:15Gyms with equipment that have accessible equipment
03:19specifically designed for people in wheelchairs.
03:23Yeah, the equipment just doesn't,
03:26it's just not set up for someone like me.
03:28You can't, I'm not going to pay a gym membership to use dumbbells.
03:31I can do that at home, but, you know,
03:34um, yeah, things like bench press and rows and stuff like that,
03:40the machines are just not.
03:42I need to be able to stay in my wheelchair
03:45and do the exercise rather than transfer
03:48because I'm paralysed from the chest.
03:50I don't have any core strength or any balance.
03:53So I need to be able to stay in my chair
03:55and exercise basically.
03:58And that's just something you just don't see.
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