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Managing Anxiety with an Aneurysm
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@jamiemj I believe “heavy” is unique to each of us. We will universally be told to not lift anything that makes us grunt or strain. As an example, before all this I bench pressed 160 pounds. Now I won’t work with more than 95, and there is a school of thought that I should be limiting myself to 20 pound dumbbells with a bunch of reps. I kind of struggle figuring out what I can safely do because weight lifting is supposed to be good for us old guys, and not taking an unnecessary risk.
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@jefftalley the way i see it, the biggest issue is straining while holding your breath, grunting usually means you’re holding your breath. So picking weight that allows you to comfortably do reps while breathing through every second of each rep and maybe taking a few pounds off for safety it’s probably a good measure. But we need to track our breathing, which means you have to consciously think about every rep and our breathing rhythm. It takes discipline and continual practice