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One hour rowing on Thursday
Two hours volleyball Friday
Six hours volleyball Saturday
Four hours volleyball Sunday
Two Hours volleyball Tuesday
Decent fitness. Not getting tired.View Thread
Go as you feel. Pay attention, and pain is a message. Write more often, log how you feel.
Eat right, stress less or not at all, work your way back to fitness, and you may have almost no limits. But do remember you are not 25 anymore.
DMWView Thread
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10799367 Abstract
"Pomegranate juice had potent antiatherogenic effects in healthy humans ... that may be attributable to its antioxidative properties."
Full Text: at http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/71/5/1062.long
I have been eating pomegranates or drinking the juice since 2007, when I found this and other articles regarding the beneficial effects of
pomegranates.View Thread
After rowing last Sunday, and my heart rate monitor /workout planner (Suunto T4d) registering a 5.0 workout and scheduling me for NOTHING for 5 days, I rested mostly just light walking, for three days.
Then 70 minutes volleyball Thursday, Training Effect of 4.3
Bowled three games Friday night (128, 146, 189, my new high game and three game set)
Archery Saturday morning
Rowed again Sunday morning, Training Effect of 3.4 in 60 minutes
Volleyball again Sunday afternoon, Training Effect of 4.1 in 90 minutes
My heart rate is adapting to volleyball with its standing and adrenaline action. The first two times I played, it hit a training effect of 5.0 each time. These two times it stayed in 145 - 160 range, rather than 155-170 range.View Thread
Took my younger daughter for her first lesson on Labor Day, and she loved it. Took the younger one last Sunday, and she loved it. Now wants to row on a regular basis. COOL ! Plus there is a local meetup group that does social rows with this club.
Exercise heaven.View Thread
Took my younger daughter for her first lesson on Labor Day, and she loved it. Took the younger one last Sunday, and she loved it. Now wants to row on a regular basis. COOL ! Plus there is a local meetup group that does social rows with this club.
Exercise heaven.View Thread
Hilly walk Thursday evening for 45 minutes, carrying 12 lbs. Light load, hardly noticed it.
Saturday, archery, and a short workout on a rowing machine.
Will row today, but will just do technique, have an easy row of it.
I might walk a little, just because its good for circulation, healing.
Tuesday, walk only.View Thread
Four months ago, he could walk around the building at work once, slowly, and complained his legs hurt, and he was tired.
He is now up to four times around the building, at a faster pace, is not tired from the walk, and his legs no longer hurt. He thinks he's feeling better !
Its not where you start. Just do what you can, and little by little you'll feel better, feel more energy return, and be happier, too.View Thread
After warm-ups, I played two games, about 40 minutes total. My heart rate hit 170 early, then cruised up to 182 and leveled off there for 30 minutes. No tiredness until the end, no shortness of breath, no chest pain of any kind.
Neck is very stiff, a touch soar in inner thigh muscles and lower back. Will need at least a week to recover well.
Meanwhile, walking once or twice everyday, sometimes three times.
Once or twice a week over to a school or park to shoot baskets after work. Also once or twice to archery range.
And still working full-time.View Thread
Good deal.View Thread
Ask why thy can't remove the clot or break it up, that seems much safer.
Does your Dad eat an EXTREMELY healthy low fat diet ?
Pistachios, green tea, dark chocolate, pomegranate juice daily ? No beef, no dairy.
Chicken breast or turkey breast, egg whites, salmon or tuna are his best protein. Use lots of herbs and spices, salsa ?
No processed foods ?View Thread
Thanks for the support for John.
Of course always see a doctor, hopefully one who thinks you are important to be able to control your issue and recover from it.
DMWView Thread
Being busy at work, I am getting less of my healthy snacks: pistachios, green tea, dried blueberries or cherries, dark chocolate. Where I would have two of these per day, not it is almost always tea or forget everything else. Oh, well.
All this shows up now in that pretty much every day I am getting a little discomfort on the treadmill, and use my nitro spray to relieve it. Two cardiologists thought this a good idea, not waiting for a heart attack to use it.
My cardiac heart rate recovery is not quite as good as a year ago. Used to be about 15 the first minute, 38 after two. Now I am more like 11 and 28. But my heart rate is not as high, so it may have less room to drop easily.
I'm also more distracted from rehab. At least work is fun if on a heavy schedule. A new co-worker is a blast. Very bright, outshines me, yet is so helpful, willing to get into anything, and do it well. That reduces stress on the project. More than one person has commented on how calm and unflustered I am. They are surprised I haven't had a heart attack.
Comments from any lurkers to the forum community ?
Questions ?View Thread
A treadmill test won't reveal blockages, though it may show where poor circulation is present, which could be blockages.
Angina is strong chest pain.
You SHOULD stop smoking, and be eastign more pomegranates and juice, other red and purple fruits, drink green tea.
I wonder if you'll reply ,or if you are in for surgery.View Thread
How's your diet and stress level ?
Most heart patients just do not realize how absolutely critical theirr diet is, and will not make the necessary changes to help prevent disease progression, or initiate reversal.
If interested, I'll go over all the things I have done the past 5 years that have given me a lot of my life back.
My doctor did not think I could make enough changes to make it 5 years post surgery. I hit that anniversery on January 13, 2011. I feel good, and pretty much never have angina anymore.
LarryView Thread
He's 93. With that many problems, should he just rest quietly with family, wait out his days ?
Or if he wants to fix what he can, someone there needs to be doing all this research. What's his diet ? Can he walk ?
If confined to bed and chairs, then the lack of movement will prevent the body's natural anti-inflammatories from helping, and the natural anti-depressives from having an effect.
I suspect I'll be content with a good book, or audio book and some music at that age if I'm not pushing daisies yet.View Thread
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
SueView Thread
I damaged some muscles just below or among my lower ribs on the right side, between some weight work, some subsequent bowling a few days later, and I'm not sure what else.
A week later, bowled 2 games again as it did not hurt, and strained it half way through the 2nd one. So ANOTHER week off, with just light walking.
Its finally starting to feel much better now, and I think I can resume my treadmill and gingerly try my rowing machine.
So don't jump into anything too quickly. I've been injury free from exercise for a long time, outside of the occasional cramp. But anyone can hurt themselves just getting a little outside their current envelope.
Best wishes in good training,
DMWView Thread
This question would be better asked on the WebMD doctor moderated Heart Health Exchange.View Thread
Any advice on recovery and beyond? When did you return to work?View Thread
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&DbFrom=pubmed&Cmd=Link&LinkName=pubmed_pubmed&LinkReadableName=Related%20Articles&IdsFromResult=15179103&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusView Thread
Stress raises blood pressure and damaging arteries and allowing blockage sites to form.
Smoking, stress, lack of exercise, and poor diet all contribute to reduce and make dysfunctional EPCs, the body's stem cells that do proper arterial repair.
When she gets out of the hospital, she needs to review the tips I have put on the exchanges, and other heart health information. Six months to a year of aggressive diet intervention should help her tremendously.
If uninterested, she should write a will and design her own funeral, because otherwise it will come sooner, not later.
DMWView Thread
That way you stay in a positive feedback loop. And can keep adding a little week by week, month by month.View Thread
This study only did Tai Chi once a week. I would think other rehab was also taking place.View Thread
Not too intense, but I was getting tired, which goes against my own directive, to not get tired. I slacked off some more often, hanging back on defense more often. Plus there were some young sharpshooters on my team, so less need to play both ends.
But I do get a little sore. Seem mainly my low back on the sides, from leaning and bending. That tells me that needs more work.
And yesterday's basketball ? More tired after exercise than I can remember in a long time. Definitely fatigued. So today is a rest day, or no more than very light recovery exercise.
DMWView Thread
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