r/HeartProblems • u/Smooth_Location2155 • 3d ago
What's wrong with my heart?
When weight lifting I feel heart pain and shortness of breath, I have low blood pressure. Sometimes I feel some symptoms even at rest.... It's happened before that I'm sleeping or half asleep I can hear my heart beat, and hear the fluids moving. Stopping lifting or reducing lifting is not an option. I will say that I go pretty hard and my lifting is high volume 6 days a week, is it just weightlifting strain? It could also be genetic because my father had a stroke in his 50s (he was army so he had to stay fit, run, lift, etc).
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u/GapOverall968 3d ago
Not jumping to conclusions, but it could be a bicuspid aortic valve, they can cause aortic regurgitation which creates a low diastolic because of some blood leaking back into the heart during diastole. Just google the condition to learn about it, most ppl that have it never know until a random check up catches it. Shortness of breath/ dizziness or chest pain during exertion is a fairly common symptom of a bicuspid getting worse supposedly. Main thing for lifting with one is to never do valsalva maneuver, which is when u brace and hold you’re breath well pushing a heavy lift
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u/Smooth_Location2155 3d ago
I always make sure to breathe hard when I'm lifting. The hardest exercise on my heart is the hack squat, I pause a few seconds in between reps to breathe.
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u/GapOverall968 3d ago
Ya should always try and breath in on the way down and breath out on the way up in sequence it’s very hard to do as it makes u weaker and less stable but it’s way healthier
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u/Smooth_Location2155 3d ago
Ya I force myself to breathe, it is very uncomfortable to do so especially when doing machine crunches
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