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Saw this on FB and tried to find the original, which I haven't, but the point is so solid.
im revisting my cardio stress test results and frowning because i am scoring into athletic ranges for cardio performance on tests i should be, according to my less-active-than-an-average-office-worker lifestyle and health factors, completely tanking, and i am going to need a cardiologist to explain to me how my having to tap out of a stress test as soon as i hit the jogging segment because i felt like my joints were falling apart still got me into the "93% of maximum possible expected performance for age/gender". again i have to ask: the average 30-40 year old tumblr user cant walk briskly on a treadmill for 10 minutes without falling apart? that doesnt sound right. i was fully expecting them to tell me my heart sucks and im extremely out of shape based on my subjective experience of the test
on the one hand i think everyone including myself likes to think luck and genetics are a lot less influential on personal physical condition than they actually are, on the other hand im unclear on how to explain these metrics and my apparent functional shortcomings. it cannot possibly be somatic, there just isnt any rational or irrational reason for me to be bouncing around with great physical potential and strength while having trouble walking in a straight line to the kitchen without grabbing chairs and counters and experiencing periods of panting and tunnel vision. something isnt adding up, in both directions. my lifestyle should be producing the standard NEET qualia in terms of cardiac performance; the protective effects of genetics, never drinking, rarely smoking/vaping, and mostly cooking my own food shouldnt be strong enough to be overcoming all the other crap, nor have i ever responded well to periods of physical training and conditioning. even in active athletic training or heavy manual labor periods i **do not** put on muscle or become particularly better conditioned
edit: is is possible that scoring athlete numbers on the couch potato test when you are a couch potato IS diagnostic of something? if so, what?
I am also 30-40 and gave up shortly after the jogging started (or didn’t start, in my case) and i was told i had “diminished exercise capacity.” But my HR also skyrocketed pretty much as soon as i started walking - if yours stayed low, they might be saying that your heart “performs” well even if you’re functionally limited. (that is 100% a guess, i don’t know what they mean when they say the things they say) i feel you tho, i saw a pulmonologist because of my constant shortness of breath and they were like “your lung performance is even better than average for your age and gender” and i was like ok tell that to my me…
i'd also be interested to see where I land on this - same age range, also cannot run anymore. literally can't. Joints will not.
Also I think they're comparing you to like. Heart failure numbers. You can be 30-40 and have heart failure. There are a loooot of people out there in terrible shape
hello exercise physiology graduate here (i studied and conducted these tests in college, and i also have POTS myself and went through the whole wringer of cardiac testing and diagnosis too, so i have both sides of the experience lol)!
so maximal stress tests are purely a test of the heart (to some extent the lungs as well since those are necessary for oxygen uptake lol), but all we’re measuring is heart performance. if your joints are preventing you from going further on the test, that’s not going to be at all discussed in the results because that’s not what this specific test is for. (and yes prev addition is right, we’re mainly looking at results in terms of checking for things like heart failure and other danger markers, so being generally unfit in genpop terms, but still having results indicating a healthy heart, is still a good score)
the maximal stress test is HARD and most people, even many decently fit people, actually can’t go very far into the jogging/running segment. so if you make it there with a somewhat stable heart rate and no ekg anomalies, then that’s indeed above average and a good sign for your heart health specifically. however, if your endurance made you tap out before your heart rate actually reached 85% maximum, then it’s not necessarily a full picture of what we’re looking for in the test, so there could potentially still be some heart issues that go undetected.
so what do exercise physiologists look for in a test like this? for healthy/athletic populations taking the test, they’re just using it to measure their maximal abilities and get their vo2max values, and truly see how far/long they can go on the test. but for medical populations, that’s obviously not the case. when we do this test, we’re not measuring how long you can go really, but more so how your heart reacts to the workload. ideally, we want you to go until you reach 85% of your maximum heart rate in the test. we’re looking to see as the workload increases and as your heart rate increases, are there any extreme jumps in heart rate, or is it a steady (in simplified language) rise? are there any arrhythmias or irregularities that occur in the ekg readings? does blood pressure rise as expected?
if we find that all of those things come back with normal range results, then that’s going to mean you get good test results! but just like any test, it’s only looking at a small and ultra specific range of things to rule in or out a few very specific diagnoses. just because you appear healthy on these specific measures, doesn’t mean you are healthy in all measures, it simply means that the cause of your issues isn’t the one that this test looks for. so it’s not doctors dismissing you or the test being bad, it’s just that your limitations are coming from another cause, and even though it’s frustrating going through so many tests with no answers, i try to think of it more like, hey at least you’ve narrowed it down a little bit!
it was so generous of you to answer my very open-ended question in such a communicative, intelligent, and helpful way. i am genuinely grateful. so it terms of POTS/whatever, and diagnostics, it sounds like (correct me if im wrong): my heart is in good shape, and this is good news, but the test was not necessarily intended to give us any information about dysautonomia, but more like...to make sure i'm not about to keel over from a heart attack. people with healthy hearts and lungs can also have POTS, it's just important to rule out cardiovascular dysfunction as well?
How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton
I can't believe some people are actually reblogging this like "Tch. Omg, so embarrassing OP, I can't believe you would ever admit to liking Hamilton 😏 " like ok, first of all congratulations for hatching as a fully formed adult in 2022 from the pure white egg of a virgin swan i guess. Raised in a cave on a diet consisting solely of nuts and berries and leftist twitter clapbacks. "ooooooh, I've never had a complicated relationship with a piece of art that was phenomenally well-received at the time but aged like milk as later reflection revealed the fundamental flaws in its premise that were in fact present from its inception but which I didn't notice because I was 17 and hadn't heard of neoliberalism yet" Should we throw a party? Should we invite Anthony Fantano? Anyway second of all. you draw the line at Lin Manuel Miranda but you're fine with basement guy?
You are a bug in bug hell but your spider torturer so fucking bad at their job that the devil himself has to grab you with his gay pitchfork and help them
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need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now
where are you going
I love it when headlines get cut off
Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog
It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!
it's good that I will never be a dog breeder, bc I would make the elephant dog. long borzoi snout, chunky pitbull body, ears of a papillon
why aren't we doing this?
you 🫵 you can join the breeding project.

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GET ABSOLUTELY SHRIMPED!!!
You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
essentially every core premise of the whole language movement has been tested and rejected by both qualitative and quantitative research, but that won't stop them because they can't fucking read