🧼 "Cleans" Your Blood Vessels
Exercise helps remove harmful waste products and toxins from your bloodstream more efficiently.
🌬️ Improves Oxygen and Nutrient Delivery
By boosting your circulation, exercise ensures your organs — including your kidneys — get the oxygen and nutrients they need to function better.
💪 Makes Blood Vessels More Flexible
Flexible, stretchy blood vessels lower your blood pressure and are gentler on your heart and kidney structures (and great for fistulas!).
🔁 Boosts Circulation
A stronger heart and better blood flow support your entire body, including your brain, muscles, and kidneys.
🌱 Grows Your Circulatory System
Exercise encourages your body to build new tiny blood vessels (capillaries), increasing oxygen supply to your tissues over time.
🩸 Helps Increase Blood Count
Physical activity can stimulate your body to make more red blood cells, improving oxygen delivery and reducing fatigue.
📉 Bonus: Exercise Helps Lower Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is one of the major causes — and consequences — of kidney failure. Regular exercise is one of the most effective natural ways to lower blood pressure over time.
🧍 Getting Started with Exercise
You don’t need to run marathons! Start slow and steady — even small amounts of movement each day make a big difference.
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🚶♀️ Brisk walking
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🧘 Gentle yoga or stretching
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🚲 Cycling or stationary biking
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🏋️ Light resistance exercises
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🪑 Chair-based exercises (great for limited mobility)
Feeling a bit frail and haven’t exercised for a while? Thinking you’re not strong enough to regularly exercise? Thinking you're too old? (nobody is!)
Try these more gentle exercises (NHS website):
Why Bother Exercising?
💻 Try Kidney Beam – Free Online Support for Kidney Patients
Kidney Beam is a FREE online platform designed specifically to support people with kidney disease in improving their physical and mental well-being — all from the comfort of home.
🏡 What Is Kidney Beam?
Kidney Beam offers live and on-demand classes led by a team of kidney specialists, including:
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Renal physiotherapists
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Renal counsellors
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Experts from NHS kidney units across the UK
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People living with kidney disease themselves
Whether you're new to exercise or already active, Kidney Beam meets you where you are.
👥 Who Is It For?
Kidney Beam is for anyone aged 16 or older, with any type of kidney condition, at any stage of kidney disease — including those on dialysis or post-transplant.
💪 Why Try It?
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Work out safely at home, with expert guidance
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Choose from a wide range of classes with fitness ratings to suit all abilities
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Connect with others and stay motivated through community chats
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Look after your mental health with mindfulness sessions and support
🤝 A Supportive Community
At the beginning and end of each class, you can chat with the instructors and fellow participants. It's a great way to build friendships, share your journey, and stay encouraged.
🔗 Ready to Get Started?
👉 Visit Kidney Beam HERE