Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

HOT TAKE: Lifting weights isn’t exercise.

If your heart rate doesn’t stay elevated, you’re not training your body. Its more like cosplay you need a resilient heart and lungs.

interesting. so would you consider yoga exercise?

I don’t argue the benefits. It’s just not exercise and if true would benefit immensely from the recruitment from cardio aka exercise.

This is a spicy take indeed

It’s true, You need a resilient heart and lungs to supply your muscles with oxygen while you lift weights, but lifting (especially compound exercises) is beneficial to everyone

And I definitely need cause I want to start lifting metal, but my doctor keeps telling me my heart can't take it.

it takes time to condition but eventually your body recognizes its ok (when your mitochondria learns to be more efficient) and then the games start to begin. 

I now can sit at 90% (160-165) of my HR max for over an hour without it being too stressful mentally. If you need help getting started let me know.

What if my heart cannot take it 🤔 🤣