Exercise can Harm your Heart

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I've been hearing a lot about how the exercise can harm your heart and your heart's rhythm if done wrong. Is it possible? How often does this happen? Breathing might have anything to do with it? What is the proper way to breathe while training? What to do to keep your heart in good health?
Anybody knows something about it?
Any thoughts?
 
this isn't something that happenes often. If you hold your breath for too long you can pass out. There is this heart condition some people have that can make their aorta pop if they go too heavy, but that's not because lifting is dangeoraus, it's because they already have a dangeoraus condition. this is the reason you should go to your doc and consult with him before starting to train.
 
ANDREIS said:
I've been hearing a lot about how the exercise can harm your heart and your heart's rhythm if done wrong. Is it possible? How often does this happen? Breathing might have anything to do with it? What is the proper way to breathe while training? What to do to keep your heart in good health?
Anybody knows something about it?
Any thoughts?
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I am 48 male and had an angioplasty and stent implant a year ago and see a cardiologist regularly. He has never warned me about any of the dangers you mention but encourages me to exercise and knows I am training for a triathlon.

That said, I am sure some people are harmed by exercise.
 
Think that people just don't pay as much attention to their "inner" health as they do to the "outer" body.:yelrotflmao:
 
One should off course get a medical check-up before exercising. Of those cleared for exercise by their doctor, I've never heard the ridiculous assertion that "Exercise can Harm your Heart". Perhaps the OP can post a few credible links to articles by doctors or in an encyclopaedia?
 
oh goodness I hope so!!! I hit this stuff as hard as a possibly can just trying to break the dang thing!!! And it just gets harder and harder to even make it ache anymore. Probably end up living forever. BUT!! if it does quit-- thank the Lord, on to Glory and this torture will be over...............hoping!

FF'in

p.s. I've also heard that most heart trouble is diagnosed very nearly right after an exam! hahahah lol
 
ANDREIS said:
I've been hearing a lot about how the exercise can harm your heart and your heart's rhythm if done wrong. Is it possible?
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Do you mean situations where a possibly undiagnosed problem like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or Marfan syndrome could result in death when engaging in intense exercise?
 
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The only thing I can really think of that you might be describing is the result of the Valsalva maneuver. During exercise, if you hold your breath (by closing your epiglottis), it can cause a rather extreme spike in blood pressure. While proper breathing techniques alleviate this, it is especially important for those that suffer from cardiovascular disease (CVD) because a spike in blood pressure on the level of that caused by the valsalva can lead to cardiac arrest.

There is also the possibility that underlying CVD, primarily high blood pressure, can cause the heart to have to work so hard during both resistance and cardio training to overcome blood pressure problems that the heart itself actually increases in size*, which is another sign/symptom of CVD and extremely unhealthy as the heart now requires more oxygen to function and can lead to further complications.

*Not to be confused with the increase in atrium/ventricle volume that occurs in response to aerobic fitness training.
 
ANDREIS said:
I've been hearing a lot about how the exercise can harm your heart and your heart's rhythm if done wrong. Is it possible? How often does this happen? Breathing might have anything to do with it? What is the proper way to breathe while training? What to do to keep your heart in good health?
Anybody knows something about it?
Any thoughts?
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Well that does it for me! No more exercising since it may hurt my heart! :rolleyes:
 
ANDREIS said:
I've been hearing a lot about how the exercise can harm your heart and your heart's rhythm if done wrong. Is it possible? How often does this happen? Breathing might have anything to do with it? What is the proper way to breathe while training? What to do to keep your heart in good health?
Anybody knows something about it?
Any thoughts?
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What do you do to keep your heart in good health? Um... EXERCISE...

Anything carries inherent risks. If you Press a weight above your head, you could drop it on your head, you could land wrong while skipping rope and break your ankle, you could fall over when you are running and get run over by a plane. The beneifts of exercise far outweight any risk. Just like anything, you have to do it intelligently, and listen to your body for feedback.
 
c'mon don't give me another excuse to add to my VEEEERY long list. Even me the excuse central can't bow down to that one.
 
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