Are You Stuck In A Rut? Safe Exercise With A Stent? How? Get your wheels turning again with FitOldDog! Why a wheel? Because wheels work! Life goes in cycles. So does healthy exercise! Life has been using wheels effectively for over 2,500,000,000 years! The Stent Blog says, on exercise with a heart stent: "...really depends on you and what you did physically before your stent." I agree, but there's ... Read more
Modern vascular surgery is like magic! Saved my life, and my love of Ironman, twice! Live Life To The Full! What's the point of fixing your heart, if you don't use it to the full? Vascular surgery reminds me of bike repair, and a comment by Victor Jimenez, of Bicycle Lab. Victor, who built my triathlon bikes, said one day, "Kevin, I love it when you guys come in, because you destroy your bikes. You ride them ... Read more
Athletes Have To Figure It Out! Vascular Disease Happens! Heart Disease Is A Form Of Vascular Disease! A heart stent is like an aortic stent, only different, mechanically! "I had a heart attack, got a stent and continue to exercise. no one expected it, including my doctor. I don’t want to take drugs unnecessarily. I find I am left to figure it out on my own. so business as usual plus 8 pills a day. Your blog ... Read more
Pauline and I had a very enjoyable, though hot, race at the 2015 Eagleman Half Ironman event, in Cambridge, Maryland, last weekend. Pauline left me far behind, but we both finished unhurt, unlike a number of people carried away in ambulances with heat stress or dehydration. Rupert (my Cook Zenith Stent Graft) and I were really looking forward to this race, not expecting a fast time, and not really competing with ... Read more
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Alan Martins says: March 1, 2014 at 9:35 pm "I totally agree, was also told not to play golf and go for little walks! What? If I’m going down, it’s going to be with a smile on my face. Live life!" Welcome! Only you can really decide the best exercise plan for your mind, heart and body, when dealing with the rigors of aortic disease - but deal with it you will, one way or another. Increasingly, ... Read more
Hi folks, welcome! If this blog post doesn't make a lot of sense, it's because I'm still in a post-surgical drug-induced fog. Maybe I should try reading Ulysses again, right now? Yes! I'll give it another try. Thinking of dreams, fantasy and the like, I just enjoyed another important guiding dream, which went as follows: "I was heading out on a run, feeling strong, light and flexible, and I found that I could ... Read more
Hi folks, welcome to my meandering thoughts! If you have an aortic aneurysm, with or without a stent or graft, I recommend that you consider weight training rather than weight lifting. This means confining your workouts to as little as a 5-pound weight, but with some imagination you can give yourself a serious, risk-free workout. The real trick to a happy life as an athlete is to let go of your ego, focus ... Read more
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