How do you decrease stamina?

Answer 1

Stamina increases with disuse. For example, a patient who is hospitalized can begin to lose stamina--energy and sustained energy--within 3 to 5 days of being mostly "at rest", lying in a hospital bed, and not doing usual activities. Every day at home, people maintain stamina every time they get out of bed, walk to the bathroom, go to the kitchen to prepare a meal, go outside, drive a car, run errands, do exercise activities, etc. When people stop doing those routine, everyday activities, stamina wanes and can be so badly decreased that the person needs physical therapy.

To increase stamina is to reverse inactivity, such as by doing the activities listed above.

In a hospital, a patient would sit on the edge of the bed first to dangle the legs, and to sit in a chair for a little while. Walking in the hallway helps, building strength step by step. Some patients do in-patient physical therapy (PT) before being discharged to home. Even at home, patients must continue to reverse the disuse and increase their stamina.