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Is exercise with ADT the Secret Sauce?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 22 9:21pm | Replies (41)
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@northoftheborder There's an age to stop shovelling . I knew 3 individuals who did not get the message , one in White Rock .BC and three in Ontario -- They thought they were fit and up to shovelling heavy wet snow . You gussed it , they dropped dead , the youngest was 61 .
It's not worth the ego trip .

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chippydoo | @chippydoo | Mar 18 11:09am

I'm not sure if there is an age to stop moving. Perhaps one that requires us to pick our battles wisely.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Mar 18 11:51am

Thanks for checking in. Yes, that's a sadly-common problem, and it comes from

1. Lifting snow with a shovel (which cases heart-rate spikes)
2. Inadvertently holding your breath while heaving the snow (ditto)
3. Shovelling furiously without warmup (ditto).

I use a snow scoop, which I push (instead of lifting), and just walk normally behind it. My heart rate rarely hits 130 (generally settles in the low 120s; I have an alarm set on my smartwatch just in case it spikes, but it's never gone off). Done that way, snow clearing is a great, safe workout, no more strenuous than walking on a treadmill with an incline, but 100% agree about the dangers of tossing wet snow in the air with a shovel — the first big snowfall of the year is one of the worst days for 911 calls.
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