Anxiety and Exercise
Talk with a cardiologist about this.
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Any advice for 46 year old, 10 months out from surgery? I fantasize about being able to run. I enjoy watching people run. I have started exercising for 3 days per week for about 1 hour each time with a group from work. Each person seems to be at a different level of exercising and I sometimes don't break a sweat, and I feel like my hour has been wasted. Joining a gym is kind of expensive, but I want to make the most of my weightloss tool. I want to lose 25 more pounds and then I will be at goal. Hopefully, I will lose more.
The workout tapes that we use consist of the 4 mile walk, jumba, and some tapes with cardio-blasts. I plan to start bringing my handweights with me to help to tone my arms.
But I want to gain endurance and be able to jog. What else can I do?
I'm sort of where you're at...I've had 2 heart attacks and a double heart bypass. I won't work out to exhaustion. I'm afraid I'll damage my heart. And I refuse to exercise in smog...Both my heart attacks were working and exercising on smoggy days. I push myself more and more...But I listen very very carefully to my body also.
I don't use HR when I work out though. I used something called RPE. It's relative perceived exertion. The idea is, if you feel like you are working out to the point where you are going to have a heart attach, it doesn't matter what the HRM says. Here's some info on it:
http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/measuring/exertion.html
Also, the formula 220-your age is a horrible way to decide what your max HR is. It works for about 5 people. That formula says my max HR is 167 and my heart rate regularly goes up to 172-177 when I run and I don't even feel like I'm going to die. The stress test put my max HR at 186-187, which makes more sense compared to what actually happens to my HR when I work out.
HW - 225 SW - 191 GW - 132 CW - 122
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