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Exercise, Lifestyle and Life Experience with Dilated Aorta?
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Because of my having an aneurysm, I have been limiting myself to pretty light weights. Currently using 12 lb dumbbells. But I’m needing to do a lot of reps to get to it being difficult. Am I Okay moving to 15 lb dumbbells now?
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@beebo the most important thing is whether you can comfortably handle the 15lbs while breathing through every single rep, even the last one, never hold your breath. If you can comfortably do that, I think you should be OK
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@beebo That depends a lot on your condition but I have been using 15 and 20 pound dumbel weights and up to 30 pound kettle bells with no issues. This is more weight than I did before surgery, BTW. I am 20 months post surgery for repair of two ascending aortic aneuyrsms. Listen to your body, though.