Signs You Should Stop Exercising Immediately
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- 27 Feb 2023
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By now, surely everyone knows that exercise is good for the heart. "Regular, moderate exercise helps the heart by modifying the risk factors known to cause heart disease," explains Dr. Jeff Tyler, an interventional and structural cardiologist with the Orange County Heart Institute in California.
The heart works hard to take the oxygen from your lungs and then speed it and nutrients in the blood to all corners of the body. When you exercise, your body’s oxygen needs increase, which means your heart has to work harder.
Exercising regularly leads to better heart health over time; the muscle gets stronger and more able to pump blood when needed.
However, there are times when exercise can actually threaten the heart's health.
Would you know the signs it's time to stop exercising immediately and head straight to the hospital?
Your heart (generally) hearts exercise.
There's one thing to set straight: Exercise is overwhelmingly good for your heart. For most people, the benefits far outweigh the risks.
Physical activity is one of the most effective ways to ward off heart disease and stroke, two of the top causes of death in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association. The AHA recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise for adults each week.
But you can have too much of a good thing. The first sign often shows up as regression in your progress or results. Sometimes referred to as overtraining, if you find that your muscles are sore all the time and you’re having trouble sleeping and keeping up with previously easy workouts, then something is probably wrong. It’s best to rest and seek medical advice.
More isn't always better.
More intese exercise isn't always better, particularly for people with certain underlying heart conditions.
"There is a little bit of this cardiac arrest paradox, where we're telling people, 'Exercise is beneficial when you do it on a regular basis, but at times (it) can be a trigger for something worse,'" says Dr. Jonathan Drezner, a Seattle-based family medicine physician at the University of Washington who specializes in sports medicine.
Tyler adds that "recently, studies have investigated if there can be too much of a good thing when people participate in extreme, long-term endurance exercises."
There's a concern, for instance, that some who participate in frequent, high-intensity endurance activities, such as ultra-marathon runs of 50 or 100 miles, may experience "heart remodeling that may be harmful or increases in cardiac enzymes that may suggest heart injury," Tyler explains.
To be sure, these individuals are not your typical weekend warrior type. Tyler notes that "for the vast majority of Americans, these concerns about extreme exercise do not apply and the benefits of regular exercise far outweigh these small risks." Read More…
