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I wasn't told not to lift heavy things by my cardiologist either. I've gotten that advice from this group. I'm not blaming my doctor, but I've found more useful information here than during my medical appointments. I'll take information from anywhere if it's reliable. No, don't carry that air conditioner. 🙂 I guess I won't be hauling bags of garden soil around this spring. 🙁
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Yeah, that garden soil can be a load. Like wet mulch, or bags of cement. Oof. I guess not any more, but IDK. As for the air conditioner, we sold the farm so this was the last year for that. But I just did a 31 mile bike ride and felt great, just a steady aerobic pace except for a couple of harder pushes over and back on a fairly steep bridge. Cycling is by far my main mode of exercise these days.
As for other no nos, I have read here that we should refraing from doing planks and pushups? I find pushups almost mandatory to retain upper body strength. After hip replacement surgery took me out of my routine this past spring I found that doing just one or two pushups was difficult. That shocked me how quickly one can lose that strength as we age. Now back up to 15-20. I don't want to prematurely enter the "I've fallen and can't get up" club.