More about aortic pecking

One of the things that keeps my gray cells active is learning everything I can do about medical conditions I have. So I continued to investigate paravalvular leakage of the aortic valve Google’s deep research. So far I have asked for an overview of the condition, for more information about treatment options and for training recommendations. The resulting reports are all collected here. The report “Aorta Paravavlular Lek and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy -Investment Risk” was a bit of an eye -opener. There is definitely the danger to exaggerate with my condition, which can lead to pathological growth of the left ventricle (which is chronically overworked). This requires a change in mindset. For years I have had a “aging athlete” mentality, which pushes it a bit in my training, is a good thing because it slows down aging. That is probably not true and I have to try more to maintain the fitness and muscle mass as much as possible, but more importantly, but avoid pressing the heart.

So I brought back my training, up to an average of an hour a day. And I only do one more difficult day of Beentraining and one of the training of the upper body per week. I also reduced the length of the harder training per session. I also wear my heart rate monitor during training and avoid more than 100 beats per minute. I will discuss all this when I follow my cardiologist, but for now I feel at ease that I am conservative enough.

I still make my group ride that is now my longest ride of the week, about 2 1/2 hours. But if necessary I use enough electrical assistant to keep the pace calm and hang around the back of the group. When my doctor frowns this long ride when I see him, I can always skip the group ride and just make a short ride to meet them for lunch, so I still get the social benefits.