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Jean
I need a little help here from those of you who exercise. I see my cardio the 29th, but would like some guide lines sooner if possible.
Prior to surgery...all my life...I could do anything anybody else did, but I would be unbelievalby out of breath and take way longer to recover than the others. In later years, I paced my exercise by heart rate and how hard I was breathing (sucking air). I just blithely wrote it off to increasing age (currently 57).
Now a year and a half post surgery, I am having a hard time exercising because all my landmarks are so totally different. I no longer suck air, I get my breath back in 3 to 6 breaths, I have no exercise induced asthma, my heart rate begins falling as soon as I stop exercising, and do Lopressor or
Avapro keep my heart from working too hard. In other words , how hard should I push myself?
I just got in from a bike ride where I pushed it as hard as I could and my groin and leg muscles wore out before my lungs or heart. I just don't know how to react to this. I want to push as hard as I can, but not overdo it. Either my muscles are not up to pushing my heart to 80% rates or the meds are keeping it down. Even when I run...I am maybe at 60% when I first take a heart rate reading, but it is slowing down as I count. Should I go harder...I don't think my old knees will go harder running, that is why I went back to biking, but I can't get the heart rate much above 50% . We don't have enough hills here in south central Michigan.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Prior to surgery...all my life...I could do anything anybody else did, but I would be unbelievalby out of breath and take way longer to recover than the others. In later years, I paced my exercise by heart rate and how hard I was breathing (sucking air). I just blithely wrote it off to increasing age (currently 57).
Now a year and a half post surgery, I am having a hard time exercising because all my landmarks are so totally different. I no longer suck air, I get my breath back in 3 to 6 breaths, I have no exercise induced asthma, my heart rate begins falling as soon as I stop exercising, and do Lopressor or
Avapro keep my heart from working too hard. In other words , how hard should I push myself?
I just got in from a bike ride where I pushed it as hard as I could and my groin and leg muscles wore out before my lungs or heart. I just don't know how to react to this. I want to push as hard as I can, but not overdo it. Either my muscles are not up to pushing my heart to 80% rates or the meds are keeping it down. Even when I run...I am maybe at 60% when I first take a heart rate reading, but it is slowing down as I count. Should I go harder...I don't think my old knees will go harder running, that is why I went back to biking, but I can't get the heart rate much above 50% . We don't have enough hills here in south central Michigan.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.