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Exercise Guidance with Ascending aorta dilation

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Happy to have found this group. Like many above, I'm 62, healthy, 21% body fat and stay very active playing hockey (yes, I'm Canadian..) gym, mountian biking and up until last year's 46mm AA diagnosis, snowboarding and heavy lifting inversion machine and enjoyed really pushing myself... It's a tough transition and above comments are great. I'm still doing 1-2minute planks and crunches, but apparently these are not good either ?? I wear a garmin to track HR, VO2max, etc but nothing for BP. Yesterday I put a little "extra" into my hockey game and after, saw my HR tracking up around 190 at times and I was definitly driving hard. No more of that. Last month I ordered a wristband called Dodobit that's supposed to measure BP, but to download the app, it felt like they wanted access to "everything" on my phone. Sending it back. Has anyone tried the Garmin "Index Arm Monitor"? Might try that. I have a home BP monitor now, but it's bulky and can't be worn during activities. Staying positive, although feeling like I'm going to have to get used to sitting on the sidelines for a lot of activites..

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@jasonh1965 welcome to the group, just FYI some time ago I asked my cardiologist (Dr Prakash who is a recognized aneurysm authority and has studied the effects of exercising) about ways to measure BP while exercising, and he responded it is not possible. There are gadgets that claim they can but it is still not possible to measure BP while in motion. I also exercise intensely, mine was repaired 6 years ago, but I still have to watch my BP