Exercise after ablation August 27, 2018 01:40PM |
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Ken
Define "exercising". My Dr. said to wait a month, which I did since he knew what I did for "workouts". I returned to my normal routine which was doing twice a week weight workouts (70 mins including warm ups and stretching) that included more or less 25 sets of 10 lifts of 10-20 repetitions. Alternating upper and lower body to minimize rest. Some jogging and at least once a week windsurfing and golf.
What I notices is that I hit my anaerobic limit quicker than before the ablation (out of breath), but that slowly came back to normal over the next year. Heart rates didn't seem to be any different as I recall, but could get pretty high doing some specific lifts. My ablation was 11.5 years ago.
I felt that I could have worked out a week after my ablation, but decided to follow the Dr's orders. Best to wait, your heart will experience moderate trauma with lots of burns during the ablation.
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Go with what your body tells you. I hopped on the treadmill 8 days after my ablation and triggered an afib episode. Wasn’t bad, but I probably wouldn’t do it again. Just “go with the flow”. You might want to stay under 10k feet, though. If you do trigger an episode then the altitude won’t help, and you don’t want to fall considering you’ll be anticoagulated at the time.
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I'm wondering if there is really a higher number of afibbers among athletes than among "not so active" people. Do you think the answer might be that there are much more symptomatic afibbers among athletes ? IOW, most athlete afibbers know they have HR issues, while other people might be afibbers who don't know they are ?
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Thus one of the reasons I want this to work and to get off the blood thinner... scampering on rocks!
Did your afib end up going away? Was that triggered episode one of those that happens during the blanking period that they don't seem to count?
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bolimasa,
I too was (and still am to some extent) a hiker and climber (now age 73). My last big trip was in 2012, the "Tour de Mont Blanc" a 10 day, 100 mile hike around the circumference of Mt. Blanc, through three countries. I also spent a week hiking in the Dolomites in Italy a year after my ablation. I have been as high as 18,491 ft. - Pico de Orizaba in Mexico. Talking about high heart rates while climbing steeps - you just slow your steps to where you can keep moving without going into oxygen debt. On Orizaba, that was a complete inhale and exhale for each step. To make it even more challenging, the time between leaving the US at sea level and reaching the summit was 55 hours.
However, getting back into shape after a long layoff and after an ablation suggests you take it slowly. It will likely take a year for your heart to recover to 100%, so take your time and don't push too hard. Of course, that's relative depending where you were pre ablation. Prior to my ablation, I was in great shape on purpose since recovery is usually a piece of cake when in great shape. As I said before, I waited a month before exercising and then progressed pretty quickly. Taking only a month off, wasn't a big handicap. I was only on a blood thinner (coumadin) for one month post ablation, then nothing so bleeding was not an issue. No other meds. I had no major arrhythmias or any afib during my "blanking period".
And I guess I can blame my afib on my 14 years as a competitive swimmer, culminating with the Olympic games in Mexico City in 1968.
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