I just read a few articles online that disturbed me. Heavy weights is not heart healthy, it can cause organ damage, and heart attacks apparently and the risk is very high.
http://www.justnews.com/health/9803945/detail.html College Basketball Scholarships. Basketball Recruiting. i really dont want to disconnect my aorta chasing PR’s. doesnt sound worth it. thoughts?
I think I’m just going to keep trying to hit PRs and do my thing. There is literally an infinite amount of ways you can die, why worry about something like this?
If it were really that big of a risk, you would have heard more about it by now. Aortas would be flying everywhere across the country if this were as big a deal as they make it out to be.
The way I look at it is, people squat over a thousand pounds squeezed into tight multiply gear and juiced to the gills. If they say blood pressure goes to 300 from a body weight bench press, then how fucking high does it get during said squats?
If someone who squats twice as much as I do hasn’t popped their aorta yet, I’m not terribly worried.
sounds like troll, looks like troll too. must be a troll
Taken from the article.
“It should also be pointed out that the number of people who lift weights is very large, while the number of identified cases of weight lifting causing aortic dissection is small.”.
The article qualified several points. They stated that for some people it might be bad, if they already have a problem in that area in the first place. They also stressed correct breathing. The guy in the article was a smoker too which may have helped his problem.
My last physical I was OK. keep your cholesterol low and get your cadio in and use common sense, you should be ok. Remember Jim Fix? He wrote the runners book that was all the rave in the 70s. He died form a heart attack.
Adell, (can’t remember her last name), but she was a health food expert and her book even inspired me to eat better, but she died of cancer.
So, I guess just live your life, practice safety and you’ll die anyway. My other love is motorcycling, and I don’t even need to go into the stats on that one. One of my best friends in college was an excellent swimmer. Imagine my pain when I found out he drowned. Well, my point, don’t stop living. Inactivity causes death too!
Happy lifting:-)
Soo… powerlifting isn’t for the faint of heart?
Isn’t that old news.
Like wendler just said in his last article, if this is what you are worrying about when you go to pick up a big weight, powerlifting isn’t for you.
i think it would be pretty cool to keel over on the platform pulling a PR attempt. of course, right after locking it out and seeing those three whites.
Now this is what I call,
a sticky situation.
This sounds like fitness/health studio corporation (think bailys, planet fitness, ect.) trying to discourage heavy lifting. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if they had something to do with it.
That being said though, I read an article or a book (can’t for the life of me find it) that explained how the heart is affected by different types of exercise. I recall it saying that heavy lifting increases systolic pressure and dystolic pressure is unchanged or decreases. This was due to the fact that theres so much pressure on the body that the heart has to work extra hard. I think it also said that it actually strengthens the heart. Cardio/conditioning tends to lower bp and rythmatic exercises like jump rope improve your heart rate. Again though its been a while since I obtained this information and was looking for it because a family freind of my recently had a heart attack (he doesn’t exercise though) and I can’t find that information. Come to think of it, it may have been on Dragon Door.
This is what happened to me, I went to the doctor for a physical to take a class to go up on the North Slope and they said that I had high bp despite the fact that my dystolic pressure was low. I got another reading for a physical for wrestling that same year and the nurse was like “do you always have a low pb?” Before that however, I had started my conditioning.
Edit: FWIWT, its already been mentioned before but theres an infinite amount of ways to die. Ever seen “1000 Ways To Die”? Theres people out there who get hit by meteors, does that mean we should stop going out side? People get in car accidents all the time, should we stop driving?
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
The way I look at it is, people squat over a thousand pounds squeezed into tight multiply gear and juiced to the gills. If they say blood pressure goes to 300 from a body weight bench press, then how fucking high does it get during said squats?
If someone who squats twice as much as I do hasn’t popped their aorta yet, I’m not terribly worried.[/quote]
[quote]shawn105 wrote:
I just read a few articles online that disturbed me. Heavy weights is not heart healthy, it can cause organ damage, and heart attacks apparently and the risk is very high.
http://www.justnews.com/health/9803945/detail.html College Basketball Scholarships. Basketball Recruiting. i really dont want to disconnect my aorta chasing PR’s. doesnt sound worth it. thoughts?[/quote]
no offense dude but you can settle for mediocre if thats the case.
SFW…that is all!
yea, I heard you can get struck by lightening too.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i think it would be pretty cool to keel over on the platform pulling a PR attempt. of course, right after locking it out and seeing those three whites. [/quote]
Hahaha, spoken like a true meathead. Awesome! I can’t help but think of Jon Pall Sigmarsson when I read this.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Soo… powerlifting isn’t for the faint of heart?
Isn’t that old news.
Like wendler just said in his last article, if this is what you are worrying about when you go to pick up a big weight, powerlifting isn’t for you.[/quote]
First line possibly the lames joke ever. I luv it!
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i think it would be pretty cool to keel over on the platform pulling a PR attempt. of course, right after locking it out and seeing those three whites. [/quote]
Epic.
Hahah
“Ashenfelter blames a poor diet, smoking and stress. Yet, the weight lifting, which increases blood pressure, may have played a role.”
Which roughly translates as “his poor diet was the cause, but we really needed a personal case to make this story so…here we go”
This just seems so self explanatory it’s borderline ridiculous. What’s that? People with heart problems shouldn’t jump into intense exercise right away? No! you’ve got to be kidding me!
ahem now that that’s out of my system, realize that very few people just “get under” enough weight to cause a serious rise in blood pressure. As you strengthen your body, your ability to handle high blood pressures also improves.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i think it would be pretty cool to keel over on the platform pulling a PR attempt. of course, right after locking it out and seeing those three whites. [/quote]
That’s the way I want to go.