Does anyone have experience with athletes heart affecting their performance. Just wondering as I now have this condition and seem to be having trouble getting back into prior shape
Just curious. Have you been diagnosed with this by a medical professional?
According to your link “Athlete’s Heart is not dangerous for athletes…” Are you not an athlete? If you are, whats the problem/issue?
Does anyone have experience with athletes heart affecting their performance. Just wondering as I now have this condition and seem to be having trouble getting back into prior shape
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_Heart
Prior shape of a couch potatoe?
Does anyone have experience with athletes heart affecting their performance. Just wondering as I now have this condition and seem to be having trouble getting back into prior shapehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_Heart
Cardiac hypertrophy is “good” when it’s caused by exercise. It’s why your resting heart rate decreases and your VO2max increases with training.
Just curious. Have you been diagnosed with this by a medical professional?
Yes, I have had EKG and Holter monitor done. I am just curious about this quote in wiki.
“It also moderately increases heart rate and stroke volume (oxygen debt)”.
From what I understand this condition is quite common, if so other people should be able to
tell me if condition effected their race performance
Not sure about “athlete’s heart” … but a-fib sure does!
Just curious. Have you been diagnosed with this by a medical professional?
Yes, I have had EKG and Holter monitor done. I am just curious about this quote in wiki.
“It also moderately increases heart rate and stroke volume (oxygen debt)”.
From what I understand this condition is quite common, if so other people should be able to
tell me if condition effected their race performance
Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing, you should try it sometime. The heart rate/stroke volume line that you focused on is an effect of static training (weightlifting, etc.) There is a mention that it also does this with aerobic (dynamic) exercise, but throughout the article, it stresses that if you are an endurance athlete, this is a normal effect. And no, it won’t effect your performance, however it may affect your performance in a positive manner.
John
Actually, the question isn’t as trivial as it seems, and is not well understood. The initial process is a remodeling of the heart that is a physiological adaptation,
leading to better performance. But it’s not clear when/if these changes can lead to pathological adaptations (ventricular hypertrophy…)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18853091
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21487028
A lot of endurance athletes have this condition… I got diagnosed back in 2009 and I’ve only been getting faster and faster. The condition, by itself, is not dangerous. You just have a larger engine…
I have a hard time sleeping on my left side because I feel more pressure around my upper chest/heart.
Hopefully you were cleared by a good cardiologist. If so, rock on! Don’t hold yourself back
The condition, by itself, is…well…we don’t know…because it’s hard to predict if the remodeling will lead to pathological changes (see the links above).
OK, let me ask another way, does anyone know if having PVC (Premature ventricular contraction) effects performance.
OK, let me ask another way, does anyone know if having PVC (Premature ventricular contraction) effects performance.
effects it? No, but it might affect it.
PVC’s in isolation can be just one of those things. You said you had an ECG and a Holter, how many PVC’s did they record? Did your cardiologist say anything about it/them?
Oh, and that’s not really asking another way, that’s asking an entirely different question, which brings up the question of why you had the ECG and Holter in the first place?
John
Pokey,
We use the term “athlete’s heart” for the collection of changes that accompany exercise over the long term. There are changes in the shape and size of the heart and in the EKG that are all predictable–and usually healthy–adaptations. I’ve written about the topic at my blog:
http://athletesheart.blogspot.com/2009/12/do-you-have-athletes-heart.html
PVC’s, or premature ventricular contractions, are extra heartbeats that originate from the ventricles, the pumping chambers of the heart. Athletes feel the PVC’s as palpitations, or a thumping-like sensation in the chest. When athletes are bothered by frequent PVC’s, it’s worthwhile to have an evaulation for any underlying heart disease. Sometimes PVC’s can be frequent enough to disrupt training or competition. Various treatments may be available depending upon the cause.
Larry
OK, let me ask another way, does anyone know if having PVC (Premature ventricular contraction) effects performance\
Entirely different question…The average person has about 150 to 200 PVC’s a day. Most go unnoticed. I suppose you could say they might effect performance in that your rythm is interrupted for a second or so, but it is very minimal. Now if you have 1000’s per day, and many in a row, then you will be more affected. I’ve become so sensetive to my heart that I actually feel most of them, and have probably twice as many as normal. But that changes due to weather, mineral balance in my body, stress, caffine, sleep, and a few other factors…
Perhaps you will stop beating around the bush and tell us what is exactly going on with you, since you had a test and all…
Ok, sorry to be a bit scattered in my questions, I am trying to learn about these things.
I checked the holter test and had PVC count of 4595 which worked out to about 6% of total beats. The summary I see on the page says that there are no significant pauses, the “athletes heart” diag was from my family doctor (also an endurance athlete).
I do notice that my heart beat is most consistent when trainning hard, although still not totally consistent. I am wondering if this type of condition would cause issues with performance.
Ok, sorry to be a bit scattered in my questions, I am trying to learn about these things.
I checked the holter test and had PVC count of 4595 which worked out to about 6% of total beats. The summary I see on the page says that there are no significant pauses, the “athletes heart” diag was from my family doctor (also an endurance athlete).
I do notice that my heart beat is most consistent when trainning hard, although still not totally consistent. I am wondering if this type of condition would cause issues with performance.
That seems a bit high to me, but I’m not a cardiologist.
Again, what is your underlying condition? You don’t get ECG’s and Holters “just because”.
John