I feel sorry that you have the type of Medical Care that you are receiving.
By your account your Heart is going into Heart arrhythmia and can be corrected. Lungs do not make your heart act funny, now the other way around sure.
Here is a little reading:
Hope this sheds some light on your situation.
Happy Belated Gobble Gobble
FISCHER: Unfortunately my account is looking over his shoulder during the test, so I don’t know. He wasn’t a communicative individual, and he doesn’t want to see me again until my lungs are proven innocent. My GP can ask for a second opinion, but there aren’t many cardiac specialists so if she pisses him off her patients won’t be given priority. He had an echocardiogram done, and whatever was in the test convinced him I had an ischemia, but when the angiogram came back clean he was done. I have had 3 EKG’s this year, and the only odd one was under stress, but looking through the info the symptoms match.
I’m hypothyroid rather than hyperthyroid, but the problems started showing up after my synthroid was stabilized. My TSH hovers around one, but maybe the dose is too high? When I switch GP’s she was surprised I was getting 175 mcg a day, but she rechecked my TSH and it is 1.1, so she didn’t want to change it.
I’ll bounce the idea off of her. A doctor friend who was in my karate club with me thinks I have something called cardiac syndrome X, and she volunteered to help. She moved, so I need to switch provinces for her to be legally able to write me a prescription, and haven’t had a chance to take a couple weeks off work to give her a try.
Thanks! You’re very knowledgeable so I appreciate your recommendations.
Minimal: I have a friend that used to live on a reserve in the BC interior. She said that fall bear was the best. Spring tasted nasty when they were fresh out of hibernation, summer they were eating salmon and tasted fishy, but just before hibernation they were fat and juicy and had been finishing off on berries and vegetation. Apparently they canned most of the meat, but it was fresh bear roast every October, so Thanksgiving Grizzly!
Feeling yesterdays workout. Today was a scheduled off day, but I am thinking of separating the oly lifting days and the leg days as I was stiff last night and my lifts sucked. Next week I’m travelling a bit, so that will be rough, but week after I am thinking maybe:
Monday AM OHP+Pull Downs, PM Oly wtih C&J focus + conditioning
Tuesday AM DL + Zercher, PM maybe some light conditioning
Wednesday PM Oly with Snatch focus+ conditioning
Thursday AM Bench+Row, PM Oly C&J Focus+ conditioning
Friday AM Squat+ Good Morning, PM maybe some light conditioning
Saturday PM Oly, Snatch focus+ conditioning
Sunday Rest
531 BBB in the AM, mainly just focusing on practicing form and stretching into proper with the olys in th PM. Unless I collapse into a quivering puddle, of course, and then I’ll do less. Not finding much in the way of master weightlifting hereabouts, and wanting my shoulder at full power before I go back to throwing as it went poorly last time when I jumped the gun.
Cal 3293
Protein 326
Fat 113
Carb 242
G’night
Twice-a-day training is balls out. I love it.
Double sessions!! for the win! Remember that tougher statement ? you got me covered!!! I just crawled back into bed from the thought of 2 adays!!
It is just 'cause I’m too lazy to do it all in one go…I need to stop for a break. 
I woke up at 2:43 this morning. I don’t have a clock in my room as the light keeps me awake but I either wake up with the alarm or I wake up at 5:30, half and hour before my alarm. So I assumed it was 5:30, took my pills, got into my workout bathrobe and stumbled into the kitchen to make a workout shake when I saw the time. I decided to go back to bed…but I thought of you. With the time zone difference you were probably already almost done working out.
AM Workout:
Bench Press: 5x77.5, 5x95, 5x115, 5x152.5, 3x162.5, 8x172.5, 5x10x95
-Why is my bench stronger? I’m sitting at about 70% of my 30 year old PR’s across the board…except for bench and snatch which are 80%. Snatch at least I’ve been working on.
DB Rows 5x10x62.5
It’s almost 9 am and I haven’t fallen off my diet yet either!
Give yourself a big pat on the back…
Um the only thing I can do in the mornings is to get myself out of bed, and that only mostly happens, mainly because I need money to pay for a warm place to put my bed, do my hobbies & drink/eat. I like coffee brought to me in bed as well when I can.
Hey I missed your post about the triples in snatching, good going. Just don’t let it upset you.
Wow. Keep up the hard work, I’m impressed.
Good work. Sorry about your dog, but congrats on your anniversary.
See if you can trick Up into saying she’s on the Hungarian Oak program again.
If I woke up like that there’s most likely no way I’m getting back to sleep. Good work.
It’s unusual for you to wake in the middle of the night? Consider yourself lucky. I almost always have to get up and hit the bathroom. Been that way almost all my life.
And congrats on the hard work. Impressed your son is so fit.
Thanks Cav, GV, Min, crippler and Sen.
Sen: See if I went on the program I would end up saying something like “I’ve been banging away on the Hungarian Oak for a week. I’ve never been so pumped in my life, but man is my ass sore!” and never understand why everyone was laughing…
Cav: I am lucky really. I complain about not being able to push my self cardio-wise, but I’m fine. I can still lift. Nothing hurts usually, family is good, have a decent job. I’m also lucky the boy is so clueless when the young ladies try and chat with him…I can imagine the trouble I would have gotten into if I looked like a greek god at that age. I’ve always been more of an ape though…back hair in my teens…
Anyway on to the main event:
Front Squat 3x10x70
-just enough to push out the last of the DOMS from Tuesday and get my legs bending all the way again. Still working on the shelf for the clean though…
C&J: 3x120, 3x140, 3x160, 2x170, 1x190
-the last one would have gotten red lights on press out.
-Really having trouble with the catch and shelf. It is like my forearms grew 2 inches longer sometime in the last decade. I don’t think my C&J is mature enough for the cycling I’m using now, so I think I’m going to push more Front Squats and lighter weights to get the groove in and get everything bent into shape.
Snatch: 2x1x172.5,7x1x140
-third one was a really high pull with a squat, but not what you would call a snatch, so I dropped weight to make sure I kept hitting singles.
-Technique if OK at this weight, but I think I need to lower my expectations as I just turned the rest of my workout up to 11. I’m not going to stress until I adapt.
Power Clean and Push Press: 13x70, 17x70, 19x70
-gave myself one minute max reps, 2 minutes rest, three sets. Probably could have hit that many reps with much much more weight
Treadmill 3 mph for 15:30
Squats and good mornings in 8 hours and 23 minutes…
I’m intrigued by your son because it seems everyone’s sons (and daughters!) on this site are so athletic. I have a nephew 20 yrs old who is thin and soft. Last time I visited, we hugged and I was afraid for a moment I broke his ribs. He’s done some Little League, but that’s about it. It seems he’s just as weak as I was at that age. So I’m wondering if there’s a lot of genetics involved.
Well, yes and no. I think we tend to brag about our kids athletics here, so it seems like they are more athletic than they probably are as a whole. I like to think most people have a sport they can adopt to keep active that they can be at least semi-competitive in, but part of it is finding what is right. I think some sort of sport or active hobby is important to staying healthy, but that is partially because it is for me.
I am basically tall, heavyset, tend to add weight unless I am strict about my diet and I do lots of cardio. If I lift weights I add muscle quickly. I’m noticing it even now when I’m in my 40’s. If the calculator is right I’m up 5# lean muscle mass and 3# fat from the on again off again I’ve been doing since I quit karate and signed up here. If I’m strict with my diet and exercise I expect even better. I’ve never been good at the cardio thing, but I worked hard at it for a decade and was doing pretty well until this last year. I was full height at age 13 and adult proportions by age 14. 6’4" 220# and lean at 14. I wrestled and threw shot and discus until high school. I was wrestling with the seniors at age 14 as there was no one in my weight class in the county.
My wife is about average height and slender, but has amazing endurance. She can do that distance running thing without training for it. She has the second smallest wrists in the family. She was full grown at age 16, 5’4" 100#. She is probably 110-115# now coming up on her 40th with the annoying ability to eat whatever she wants, not exercise and not gain weight.
I have 4 kids. They are all home schooled, so not in any formal phys ed class.
My oldest is the fencer. He is 16 and most likely full grown. He is 6’5"-6’6" 190#, and has been devoted to fencing since he was 9. He is hyper-competitive. His endurance wasn’t as good as some of the other fencers, so we made a program and he was out for 3 hours a day training on top of his regular 2 hours in fencing class 5 days a week. He is tied for the second thickest wrists in the family. I’ve never been sure what to say about his ability to put on fat as he has been growing fast and fencing for so long that whatever we feed him, he barely keeps up. When I look at his proportions I think he takes after his mother more except in height. His inseam is 4" longer than mine, he is a little taller, but I weighed 40# more than him at his age and I had the 6 pack back then too. I was 220 before I started lifting weights and really didn’t hit them properly until I was 16 or 17, so it isn’t just exercise for the difference between us.
My second son is 14, 5’10" and about 100#. He plays video games, and occasionally does parkour and dodgeball with his friends, but mainly he is sedentary. He has that eat whatever he wants and not gain weight genes, but I can’t get him to sustain any activity long enough to find out if he has any endurance capacity. He lives off of waffles and maple syrup as much as we let him. I suspect the main difference between him and his older brother is diet and exercise. He has the slenderest wrists in the family.
My daughter is 11. She is 5’6" already, and has a metabolism and body type like mine. She also has the third thickest wrists in the family. She is active, loves to ride her bike, and just signed up for a triathlon class. She may end up like her eldest brother with triathlon in place of fencing, but too early to tell. I’m hoping so as she gains weight like I do and it is a pain getting kids to diet.
My youngest is a boy, age 7. He is tied with his eldest brother for second thickest wrists in the family. He is a beefy little monkey that likes gymnastics and climbing on anything. He has my metabolism as well, and is fond of gymnastics but can’t really follow instructions to save his life.
So I don’t know. I know genetics is part of it, but genetics without drive is a waste. I never pushed as hard as I could have in sporting endeavors as I was always more focused on school and then career, but I suspect I have the genetics so I could have been good at power sports. I didn’t though, and didn’t get the results my son is.
I really need to get me a workout bathrobe! You sir are crazy for working out at 3 in the am!
Workout bathrobes are the best. The plush terry clothe cushions your shoulder for squats, and if you get too hot, just undo the belt and let everything swing in the breeze. I actually went back to bed when I got up at three and worked out at 6. If it hadn’t been for the kitchen clock I would have worked out, and maybe even made it to work my 5…
AM
Squat: 2x5x117.5, 5x145, 3x175, 3x232.5, 3x245, 6x260, 5x10x145
-Squats are high the first rep of each set, I seem to need one to warm up no matter which set I’m on. I assume it is psychological…
Good Morning: 5x10x90
-Seems light…
and that’s all!
Reads like you have an awesome family.
Thanks GV! I’m pretty fond of them. I hope it answers Cav’s question.