@hckynut wrote:
Hi to you this weekend @Trinity11.
Just a slight clarification of my 1st very long winded post. If I didn't rank them by priority, I will do so now.
While I did say "muscle strength", I also mentioned what I view as just as important, maybe even moreso when it comes to muscle spasms/cramps. That would be the "muscle and connective tissue, flexibility".
As a dancer, and the decade makes a huge difference, if it was in the 1960's or even the 1970's. Even professional athletes were not believers when it came to the importance stretching and the importance of doing so. Even "warmups" were seldom seen on a football field or a hockey rink at pre-game.
Look at any of these sports nowadays and you will see a whole lot of stretching during almost any sport before the actual competition begins.
In the early 1960's I knew little to nothing about stretching. When I took up running later in that decade, and was having all kinda of painful issues, I decided it was time for me to start digging into sports Physiology. There was little to find, but I kept looking until I came to things books by Joseph Pilates.
That opened my eyes and ended much of my painful muscle and tendon issues. It was many years after I started and set up routines for my sports activities. I improvised what I read in those books, but changed them enough to suit my specific muscle groups and tendons.
Anyways, just wanted to add this clarification to my other post. I also spent lots of time at body building contests over the years, and I can tell you from talking with many of the top ones in my area, they knew absolutely nothing about stretching, and some were adamant against doing it. They felt "elongating" would decrease the muscle size and shape, thus be detrimental to their goals.
During those years their only interests were Size/Definition and nothing more. It was long before "vascularity" even entered the body building world. There were however many using steroids, which I thought was nuts, even by then. I think it was Dianabol at that era of time.
You seem to be getting better each time I read about your progress and that always makes me smile a little bigger. I think you know me well enough to understand my purposes for visiting this forum, I just want to put more emphasis on that particular part of my post.
My best to you always,
hckynut(john)
@hckynut John, thank you. I know what you mean about steroids. My husband lifts weights since his stint in the Marine Corps. He said a lot of the guys at the gym were using them back in the day. The big thing is human growth hormone now my son was telling me. At one point my son used protein powder but his liver enzymes increased dangerously so he is back to just lifting.
Yes, no more heart failure for me. But I was glad I was prepared for the mental aspects of having a heart attack. Often times the depression was tough but you warned me how it can hit a person so your words helped a lot. We have no rehab programs around here so I have been on my own. It would have been nice, though, if I could have talked to people in rehab who had a heart attack and their coping skills..
As always, I thank you for your posts about heart disease. If not for having read your post and having had the luck to learn and comprehend it...I would not be here today.
My best wishes to both you and your wife. I wish you both years of good health and many blessings for the New Year.
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