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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday October 01 2019, @11:40PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 01 2019, @11:40PM (#901564)

    Two discoveries I've made using a heart rate monitor:

    1) Weight lifting is better cardio than cardio itself. Higher heart rates, for longer periods, less (no) joint pain, no tendon/ligament damage. Note that I OHP just under 200 pounds... you can't work up a sweat or get a high heart rate if you're only pressing 20 pound dumbbells because you're not physically dumping enough energy. This is an interesting aspect of weight lifting that is rarely discussed... you don't need to jog once you're big because your heart will get the same workout as jogging once your muscles are strong enough to exhaust you... I used to elliptical but over 45 minutes killed my ankles and knees and I got better cardio from lifting so my doctor was like "well, stop using the elliptical, then, you idiot" although somewhat more politely.

    2) Lots of posts asking if daily living counts. According to my heart rate monitor, yeah, I do like 30 minutes a day of strenuous walking or hard work or some crazy woodworking project requiring brute strength. My fitbit watch thingie reports to the minute, in fact. So yeah, unless you're SUPER ULTRA sedentary, you're probably doing cardio for a half hour a day, sure. I moved over 1000 pounds of salt bags down my driveway, stairs, stacked in basement, filled the water softener, etc, and that got me a couple minutes of cardio level workout, for example.

    Its really late at night for me, I might be pretty spaced out but I believe the above to be accurate-ish.

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  • (Score: 2) by arslan on Sunday October 20 2019, @10:34PM

    by arslan (3462) on Sunday October 20 2019, @10:34PM (#909667)

    You can get injured though when you are lifting significant loads and you have bad form or just bad natural posture. Sometimes it develops slowly over the course of time as the muscle imbalance slowly builds up and you get joint inflammation in other parts like your elbows or knees or back. Worse case, by the time you feel it, it is already chronic and because it is over time, it is not easy to self-diagnose.

    I do lifting as well for my weight management. Been doing it for the last 15 years. Lost close to 20kg the first couple years I started without any sort of cardio and been doing it as maintenance ever since.