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    Anything that I can get away with before my body tells me no. So not a lot these days but I am resilient. Swimming, lifting, cycling, kayaking, fishing, boating, reading, improving myself.

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  1. Now that is awesome!! I know I would have a hard time climbing hills over a distance, heck even flights of stairs are the bane of my existence.
  2. I will say it was one of the harder things I have ever done mentally in my life considering how much more awful I felt the entire time, on top of the other reasons normal folks feel awful about when doing a race and pushing their bodies. I have done several half marathons, powerlifting competitions and 1 half ironman prior to getting sick when my body was a machine into my late twenties. The combination of dizziness and having all of my limbs go pins-needles 3 minutes into the bike then numb after the 20 min mark and stay numb until the race's end was not pleasant. I am not sure how it is for others but when I train hard now my body needs tons of rest after. Like 2 days minimum. I would love to hear about others who compete and train hard, how it affects them and how long it takes them to recover. Also, are they doing PT for their POTS or anything special? What you compete in and so forth. I cannot wait for true Autumn and winter to try Cyclocross and some Ice races. "Go Hard or Go Home" let the paramedics sort it out.
  3. First... Thanks for responding. I think there are very few, if any people similar to my mindset on life then we toss in some POTS and Syncope with some Brady and tachy crap and before you know it the Bar dares come out... As far as the UT Southwestern, google this "pots ut southwestern " and it is best to draw your own conclusions. A lot of new articles have come out since saying some different things but the basic idea of compression on your extremities then exercise to prime the pump and keep the blood where it will do the most good. I myself take it one step further and receive air leg compression that those with lymphedema use to push the fluid and blood from their legs to the rest of their body. It is HEAVEN! I would say if you are not taking a beta blocker you may want to ask. Mine keeps me upright 90% of the time. Keep working hard and no dying
  4. So as I too began watching and reading tons more thanks to a 4 lettered acronym. FRINGE gets to be nuts but it is awesome. You probably are not into anime but I got into that as well which is funny to me since I had no interest in it throughout my entire youth and twenties.
  5. SO? S. Officer? How long have you had POTS bunny or a condition like it? I get it and when I started I had that mentality but now its about keeping upright and at pace over distance. I do not take losing well if I feel like I can do something about it. The elliptical is rough even for normal people. And I am not sure your level of anything (treatment, illness severity, so forth) but you may want to check out UT South western's clinical study where they did a clinical case study to see if certain exercises worked better over time for POTS folks. Also, I happen to luck out and have a pretty solid circulation issue (who doesn't these days), they make these air compressor leg wrap things. I try and get in there a few times a week and it makes a HUGE diff. How do you stand 4.2 miles?
  6. I am curious to hear from the folks who are trying to or refuse to give in to the obvious that POTS and its effects have on your endurance training goals and what happens to you. I am at the tail end of my training for a sprint triathlon and I am curious if other athletes with POTS suffer like I do when trying to get themselves ready. Normally if I have a big day of training, I must sleep 1-2 days of 16 or more hours just to recuperate, what about you? What times of training do you do in combination to prepare? I
  7. It depends on the kind of swimming you are looking to do artluvr. Anything you do with POTS is going to initially make you feel like garbage. Fact. But over time you may find a window that will work for you. Steady paced, concentrating on even strokes and relaxing your breathing more than sprints is better than hypoxicly-geared workouts made to build lung capacity and strength of fast twitch muscles. I swam competitively growing up and for cross training prior to having POTS, and it is the first thing I worked to get back when diagnosed and the hardest to continue. I now can swim anywhere from 10-40 minutes before any symptom becomes too much for me to bear. I recommend a few laps and treading water with exercises to start. Work on breathing evenly. Find your max then the next time don't come close to it and go from there.
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