#exercise

[fitpalooza]

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[nullnvoid911]

Fire and Police divers with Massachusetts District 14 Dive Team conduct ice rescue training at White Pond in Concord, MA.

Maia Kennedy, January 24, 2024

[angerieque]

have the courage to align your actions with your desires, and not your fears.

[athletearrhythmia]

I love to see all the posts and asks about your training and maximums and stuff, and I’d love to know how you spend time with such a powerful heart like that when it’s just chillin out. What do you appreciate most about its feel/sound or what’s something u like to do when it’s beating at its slowest?

I've actually really begun appreciating and enjoying how my heart functions at rest the past year or two, I've been such an intense "heart maximalist" chasing high rates and intense arrhythmia that I didn't really get into it until my heart started slowing down and enlarging. (That and my heart literally cannot go as fast as it used to. I would kill to go over 200 again.)

My heart is big. My heart is especially big for my body. It's rubbing against both lungs, my ribs, my spine, my pushing my diaphragm enough to move my liver, my right ventricle even protudes into my sternal notch so that my stomach pulse is actually not just my abdominal aorta but actually partly my beating heart.

Because of that I don't just feel my heart beating at all times, I feel it in detail. I can feel the shape of my left ventricle inside me, I can feel the right against the back of my sternum, I can feel my atria higher up in my chest. Partly from the size and partly from my heart obsession. Possibly also the "mind muscle connection" a lot of bodybuilders use, which is just a practice of hyper awareness of movement inside the body.

It feels *amazing*. I'm honestly so glad I'm a cardiophile because I think it would drive a normal person insane. I have to actively tune it out sometimes.

I really love my heart rhythm at rest. You get used to it, but feeling your heart just sort of hanging loose and full inside of your chest, waiting almost 2 full seconds between beats, actually feels really good when it's in a healthy context. It's like the thrill i get seeing myself pass a mirror and seeing how muscular I've gotten, just kind of a 'wow' moment. I feel very accomplished.

My heart has also gotten fairly irregular at rest. I had it checked for this and it's definitely benign, so I just enjoy it. It's because my heart is so slow my heart's backup pacemaker (AV node) will start competing with the primary (SA node). I get a ton of random, lurching, intense but brief flutters. I just love being able to feel one of my heart chambers overfilling or spasming. It makes it feel huge and powerful.

Often at rest I just like to sit around and feel it beating inside me, occasionally palpating all the spots on my chest where it nearly sticks out of me.

On audio, I love how you can hear how long it takes my heart to fill. A noticeably long time between valve closures as my heart lets itself hang open. It's really cool to compare to other people's resting hearts, you can hear how my pump is taking big lazy gulps where others sound very snappy. I also love comparing it to my heart working hard, you can really hear it working harder at increasing exercise load as my heart continues to increase its stroke volume along with the rate. Then the rapid deceleration as well. It's wild to me to think of people exercising and their hearts are still taxed and fast for almost an hour later. I max my heart out and it's down to 60 in 3 minutes, back to the 30s within 5.

Sheesh i love talking about my heart lol

[thoughtportal]

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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[animentality]

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[retrogirlmuscle]

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[ayin-me-yesh]

If anyone's looking for really gentle or disability friendly exercise...

Doctor Jo on YouTube is a physical therapist who offers lots of therapeutic stretching and exercise videos for specific conditions and pain relief. [x]

Leap Services is a Canadian physical therapy group that has a YouTube playlist of gentle exercise routines. All of these exercises are done in a chair (except for one which is done on the floor) and are intentionally adaptable to different bodies and needs. [x]

Yoga with Zelinda on YouTube has yoga that's adapted to a large number of conditions, for instance, providing a playlist of routines that don't require kneeling and another of chair yoga. She also offers yoga for specific health challenges, like fibromyalgia and mobility issues. There's a playlist of yoga routines for people with bigger bodies as well. [x]

Santosha Spirit on YouTube has yoga routines for people with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, POTS, and EDS. [x]

Yoga with Shaunneka on YouTube has a playlist of slow seated yoga, including chair yoga, as well as a playlist of gentle yoga. [x]

Qinergy on YouTube has tai chi sets broken down into easy tutorials. There is a seated version of her shibashi set. [x]

Perth Tai Chi Academy on YouTube is similar to Qinergy. It provides a seated version of daoyin yangshen qigong. [x]

[4theitgirls]

december workout plan

day 1: 30 minute cardio + 10 minute yoga

day 2: 30 minute dumbbell cardio + 8 minute stretch

day 3: 30 minute lower body + 15 minute leg stretch

day 4: 30 minute arms & abs + 10 minute yoga

day 5: 44 minute metabolic conditioning

day 6: 10 minute abs + 30 minute yoga

day 7: 30 minute hiit w/ weights + 15 minute stretch

day 8: rest day OR 30 minute walking cardio + 8 minute stretch

day 9: 36 minute strength & cardio + 15 minute stretch

day 10: 30 minute lower body + 15 minute leg stretch

day 11: 5 minute warm up + 30 minute upper body & core + 8 minute stretch

day 12: 38 minute metabolic conditioning

day 13: 17 minute abs + 30 minute stretch

day 14: 25 minute dumbbell hiit

day 15: rest day OR 20 minute cardio + 15 minute stretch

day 16: 30 minute tabata hiit & strength

day 17: 30 minute lower body

day 18: 40 minute upper body & core

day 19: 30 minute metabolic conditioning

day 20: 20 minute abs + 26 minute yoga

day 21: 32 minute hiit & strength

day 22: rest day OR 30 minute cardio + stretch

day 23: 5 minute warm up + 45 minute strength & cardio + 8 minute stretch

day 24: 43 minute lower body

day 25: rest day (merry christmas!)

day 26: 20 minute pilates cardio & abs

day 27: 30 minute upper body

day 28: 17 minute abs + 30 minute yoga

day 29: 5 minute warm up + 30 minute dumbbell hiit + 8 minute stretch

day 30: 45 minute walking cardio + 10 minute abs + 8 minute stretch

day 31: rest day OR 30 minute mobility

[fitpalooza]

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[nullnvoid911]

Fire and Police divers with Massachusetts District 14 Dive Team conduct ice rescue training at White Pond in Concord, MA.

Maia Kennedy, January 24, 2024

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