Resistance training with heart problems

My last strength training went really well, I could go pretty fast without pushing my heartbeat exaggerated. But after that it came to me that monitoring the heartbeat may not be enough. Strength training can cause a temporary peak in blood pressure, which is probably not a good idea. I thought there should be a lot of research, because in addition to mine there are many older people with heart restrictions who are relatively rare (including survivors of heart attacks, angina patients and people with valve regurgitation). And they are still encouraged to follow strength training to prevent sarcopenia. So I asked Gemini Deep Research About it and it produced This fascinating report. It points out that a resistance training, well-performed, is favorable for the heart, because although it temporarily increases blood pressure, there is “a phenomenon known as hypotension after the exercise, where blood pressure remains under the pre-exercise levels for a few hours”.

It turns out that in addition to the heartbeat I have to follow the quantity that I ask compared to my 1 Rep Max (RM), which is the amount of resistance that I can use at a certain exercise at the maximum. Both the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine agree that heart patients are not allowed to exceed more than 60% of 1 rm. If you do not know your 1 RM for an exercise, it is a good rule of thumb that you must be able to do more than about 12 repetitions. This should be difficult, but not make sure you have to press. One set of each exercise, twice a week on non-following days, is also recommended. A list of “warning signals to end a training session” (breast -coloredness, shortness of breath, light headness, etc.)

I was on the upper body and leg resistance on different days, so 2 training sessions of each require 4 days and you cannot avoid back to back. With my new reduced training it is easy to fit both the upper body and legs in one session, so I have adjusted my schedule to do each on Wednesday and Saturday:

My first Wednesday training from this schedule felt great. I had none of the heart -related warning symptoms.

I still trust trained professionals via AI, even if it has used an impressive series of references. So I checked all this with my cardiologist and he agrees with the measures I take and is not worried. So we will follow in a year unless my status changes.