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Its been about 12 months since I last did any form of excerise. I was told not to excerise too much since my heart problem months ago. Now I should be okay but i've become a little..chubby. I weigh at 156 pounds, about 20-30 pounds more. I've started up on running for an hour each time. However, i'm very tired by 1 or 2 minutes. My heart beats extremely fast sometimes and hurts. Will my condition improve over time if I keep running? I want to return to my old weight and kill my new tummy. Of course, i have to balence out my daily excerise with my studies.
 
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I'm a bit confused:
Your saying your tierd after 2 mins but carry on to do 30 mins? are you sure your tierd (as in could sleep) rather then feeling aches and pains or warming up- do you warm up properly first? 10 mins should do it, start slow, then get faster. No need to stretch but work on moving the joints about a bit (e.g hugging one knee at a time whilst standing, lunges, touching your toes or touching each toe with the opposite hand -right to left, left to right- whilst keeping legs straight...etc). Run stop, run stop run stop, 1 min on one min off....etc

Warming up is important and required.

Do you also wear a Heart Rate Monitor? if your concerned about your chest pain, this could help reassure you- are you sure its heart related or lung related? Oxygen is required to circulate the muscles as we exercise.
The harder we go, the longer we go, the more oxygen is required as the blood circulates at a faster rate.
If we have poor lung capacity we find it hard to get that oxygen to circulate which can lead to muscles feeling fatigue as the lactic acid (naturally our muscles produce lactic acid as we exercise) the lactic acid in our muscles which isn't being expelled from the muscles can cause pain and fatigue.
The way around this is to exercise more and more frequently- not to go overboard and make exercise endless but to exercise maybe little and often. This helps to build lung capacity and also to develop the heart: our hearts are muscle and the stronger they are, the more they can pump blood filled with oxygen and nutrients around the body.

If things hurt too much, calm it down a bit- only you can decide if this is what you want to do, its your body, your pain threshold and only you know best. No one can give or take permission away from you to chose if you want to do that, its up to you to decide.
 
I've been running for about 3 years now and, like everyone else, I have good days and bad days. My advice to you is to find your pace, don't go out to fast, start out with a relaxed slow pace and increase your speed after the first mile. Keep your body relaxed, drop your shoulders, relax your hands... and, after a couple of miles you should be able to settle into a nice rhythm and things should feel ok.
 
You want to focus on time, not distance. Go as slow as necessary, including walking intervals to recover, so that you can go for 30 minutes. Stay at 30 minutes for the first month. Gradually, you should be running a little more, walking a little less and eventually running a little faster. Over time, you can increase your speed and/or increase your distance.
 
I'd be careful about starting out by running too far. To go from not running to running an hour each time seems like a steep jump. It might be helpful for you to follow a 5K training program (like couch-to-5K), to keep your increases at a sustainable and healthy rate.
 
In your condition, it might be worst for you to run that amount of time. Maybe you could just ask a nutritionist or a doctor for advice.

In your condition, no one knows if your really improve one day, or maybe it could all to worst things. Anyway, take a good care of your heart ^_^
 
it depends what is wrong with your heart. cardio does help your heart to become stronger as your heart is a muscle. over time doing cardio will definatley help your heart to become effecient and stronger causing an increase in blood flow and oxygen transfer. it justs depends if your heart reacts ok to exercising which is why you should really ask your doctor on how you can exercise. if he says over time you can get fitter etc. then you should be alright with making your heart stronger and therefore being able to lose fat. you can still lose fat without having to do intense exercising aswell so don't get to worried about your shape if your heart doesn't want to do intense exercise. Tony D
 
Definatily dont over exert your body if your just starting out again. Try running but maintaining a constant comfortable speed. This will help wake up those muslces you haven't used in awhile. Start out with shorter runs, Ive found it helps to watch the quality of your runs than the speed.
 
Don't run till you drop! You can do it slowly. Take some walk for your body to recover. Don't make your legs work too much for it may harm you doing that. There are also other leg training available and it's not just all about running. you can do or squat.
 
The reason why your feeling fatigue so quickly is because your body is not transferring blood and oxygen around the body efficiently to make energy. This is obviously from your heart.
you should avoid doing this to your body and try to keep a low intense movement. as your heart gets stronger from pumping the blood around for energy during cardio, over time your heart should get stronger. you will find that you can run with a higher intensity. since you have a heart condition you should see a doctor but if he says it will be ok.
even if your heart doesn't let you do a heavy intense run light cardio will still contribute to fat loss.
Tony D
 
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