First time jogging after surgery

[coryp]

Hello All,

Just thought I would tell you that I put on the speed burners yesterday night and my wife and I jogged back home instead of doing our walk. It was 1 mile or so in about 10 min ...REAl fast!!! LOL LOL.

I wanted to try and see if my sternum and chest could endure the impact of running (we have been power walking for the last 3 weeks), and it did quite nicely. Took my blood pressure and pulse when we got back and it was 130/60- 115 bpm. My wife (no heart trouble at all and a pretty good runner) was 120/76 and 89bpm, so I think everything held up quite nicely. 5 mins later BP was down to 104/59.

My chest has been sore so far this morning but nothing terrible. Maybe I am over the hump!!

Regards,
Cory

 

[CCRN]

Wow!

Wow!

Hello All,

Just thought I would tell you that I put on the speed burners yesterday night and my wife and I jogged back home instead of doing our walk. It was 1 mile or so in about 10 min ...REAl fast!!! LOL LOL.

I wanted to try and see if my sternum and chest could endure the impact of running (we have been power walking for the last 3 weeks), and it did quite nicely. Took my blood pressure and pulse when we got back and it was 130/60- 115 bpm. My wife (no heart trouble at all and a pretty good runner) was 120/76 and 89bpm, so I think everything held up quite nicely. 5 mins later BP was down to 104/59.

My chest has been sore so far this morning but nothing terrible. Maybe I am over the hump!!

Regards,
Cory

You are one tough guy. I've just been walking. Are you going to participate in cardiac rehab? My surgeon told me I didn't need it but could if I wanted. Did you get that loud heartbeat with the run?

 

[tommy]

Did I get it right that you are 4 weeks post op? You are doing very well (you know that). That recovery heart rate of 115 tells us that you haven't come all the way back yet, but what a great start. Just don't push too hard. You want this to be a one-way street.

Please keep ups posted on your progress.

 

[coryp]

You are one tough guy. I've just been walking. Are you going to participate in cardiac rehab? My surgeon told me I didn't need it but could if I wanted. Did you get that loud heartbeat with the run?

No cardiac rehab for me, I will do my own routine. I get the heartbeat when I am just sitting at the desk typing!!.

My heart was beating though!!

thx

 

[coryp]

Did I get it right that you are 4 weeks post op? You are doing very well (you know that). That recovery heart rate of 115 tells us that you haven't come all the way back yet, but what a great start. Just don't push too hard. You want this to be a one-way street.

Please keep ups posted on your progress.

Actually Wednesday I will be 5 weeks to be accurate. What do you mean not all the way back on the recovery heart rate? What should it be 100 or so?


Thanks for the help

 

[Mary]

Cory,
We'll be six weeks out Wednesday. See--time flies when you're having fun!

Well I've been burning up the treadmill at the fitness center. I'm about half of your speed, but I'm gauging what I do using its heart rate monitor. Mine is still 95-100 beats per minute doing nothing, and I'm not letting it get over 120 while I'm on the treadmill. Funny thing is, after 3 minutes off, the rate drops down lower than when I first started.

It sounds like you're doing really well, but I'd still be cautious about the sternum.

Mary

 

[coryp]

Cory,
We'll be six weeks out Wednesday. See--time flies when you're having fun!

Well I've been burning up the treadmill at the fitness center. I'm about half of your speed, but I'm gauging what I do using its heart rate monitor. Mine is still 95-100 beats per minute doing nothing, and I'm not letting it get over 120 while I'm on the treadmill. Funny thing is, after 3 minutes off, the rate drops down lower than when I first started.

It sounds like you're doing really well, but I'd still be cautious about the sternum.

Mary

Mary,

Sounds like you are doing well also. I am usually at 72-75bpm resting and I ran again this morning pulse was at 114 when I came home.


Thanks for the advice
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Cory

 

[tobagotwo]

I don't want to push you away from exercise at all, but don't get overconfident, and it you don't feel good on a particular day%, don't try to jog it off. This kind of recovery doesn't work that way. Also realize that until it's healed, consistent flexing of the sternum may weaken, rather than strengthen it.

This is early for the type of activity you are doing, and your heart rate is still elevated. Please don't set your eyes so hard on the goal that you trip on a rock in the road. Recovery from VR is not a will-power, conquering pain, reaching a physical goal as fast as you can kind of thing. It's a building up, based on feedback from your body (pain is not positive feedback), so that you can have a solid base again. With that, you can then do that will-power, conquering pain, goal thing again.

It's not where your head is at that's important. It's where your heart is at.

Best wishes,

 

[coryp]

I don't want to push you away from exercise at all, but don't get overconfident, and it you don't feel good on a particular day, don't try to jog it off. This kind of recovery doesn't work that way. Also realize that until it's healed, consistent flexing of the sternum may weaken, rather than strengthen it.

This is early for the type of activity you are doing, and your heart rate is still elevated. Please don't set your eyes so hard on the goal that you trip on a rock in the road.

Best wishes,

Bob,

As alWays thank you for your quick witted comments. I promise to only jog when I feel really good and strong. The only way I know to reduce my heart rate is to excerise?? If I do not than it will stay way up there. My goal is to get my heart rate aro 90bpm after a 2-3 mile quick jog(10min miles), and as you can see I am ways away from that. I will slow it down a little.

thx

 

[tommy]

Cory,

I continue to use 100 as a recovery benchmark. The other interesting rate is your heart rate at rest in the morning. I'll bet your's is dropping. Do you know what it was prior to surgery?

 

[coryp]

Cory,

I continue to use 100 as a recovery benchmark. The other interesting rate is your heart rate at rest in the morning. I'll bet your's is dropping. Do you know what it was prior to surgery?

Yes, it was about 76-80 and I was taking cardizem as well.

Now it is getting lower 72 or so. I have been tachycardic for quite some time as I also have SVT.

Cory