Resistance training with heart problems – Bionicoldguy

My last strength training went very well, I could get pretty hard without excessive my heart rate. After that, however, I remembered that monitoring the heart rate may not be sufficient. Strength training can lead to temporary blood pressure climbing, which is probably not a good idea. I thought there had to be a lot of research because there are many older people with heart restrictions next to my older people, which is relatively rare (including heart attack survived, anxiety and people with valve regurgitation). And they are still encouraged to carry out strength training to prevent sarcopenia. So I asked Gemini Deep Research About it and it produced This fascinating report. It indicates that a properly carried out resistance training unit is advantageous for the heart, since it temporarily increases blood pressure, “a phenomenon is available as hypotension after training, with blood pressure staying under the resting before training for several hours”.

It turns out that, in addition to the heart rate, I should monitor the amount that I increase compared to my 1 Rep Max (RM), which is the amount of resistance that I can use in a certain exercise if I strain on the maximum. Both the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine agree that cardiac patients should not exceed 1 RM. If you do not know your 1 RM for an exercise, you should be able to make more than about 12 repetitions. This should be difficult, but not leading them to tense. In addition, one sentence of each exercise, twice a week on non -consistent days, is recommended. A list of “warning signs for the end of a practice session” (breast-enge, shortness of breath, bright pre-softness, etc.)

I carried out upper body and leg strength sessions on different days, so 2 workouts need 4 days and you cannot avoid backs. With my new reduced training, it is easy to fit both the upper body and the legs into a session. So I changed my schedule for every Wednesday and Saturday:

Yesterday I made my Wednesday training out of this schedule and it felt great. I didn’t have any of the heart -related warning symptoms.

To mention unnecessarily that I will check again with my cardiologist that he agrees. I still trust the familiar experts about AI, even if the latter used an impressive series of references.