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@fuzz622 the main restriction is any weight that leads you to hold your breath and possibly grunt while you exert, think about what weight leads you to failure with a few reps and drop at least a couple of plates from that weight. You need to make sure you are fully breathing through every single rep, find out when you’re supposed to inhale and when to exhale for every exercise and make sure you can comfortably do that. The issue is that when you hold your breath through any exercise, especially while exerting with weights (even body weight) your BP rises significantly for a few seconds and starts dropping when you stop and breathe, those peaks although very short are very high and for someone with weak arterial wall (like with an aneurysm) can be very detrimental.