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Question about activities that can substitute lifting

totallyNotAT · 2016-05-08T21:11:06+00:00

Multiple doctors told me that lifting is not an activity I should indulge in, so I'd like to ask in my position: what kind of activity can replace...

totallyNotAT

May 8, 2016

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Title	Question about activities that can substitute lifting
Author	totallyNotAT
Upvotes	1
Comments	15
Date	May 8, 2016 9:11 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/4igdvs/question_about_activities_that_can_substitute/
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[–]totallyNotAT[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* [recovered] (5 children) | Copy Link

[–]GreeneRed 1 points1 points1 points 10 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

When I go on pubMed, I see a lot of research related to this. I would definitely continue to talk to doctors about this. Research I was looking at all seemed to indicate that low intensity resistance training produced favorable results. But I'm not a doctor, you should continue talking to your doctors about your options.

So, if I understand your original inquiry, you can do endurance type training, and you have the goal of building muscle? Bicycling can create nice leg hypertrophy. Rowing, rock climbing, and the rope machine can build up your back, biceps, and forearms.

That just leaves your lower back, triceps, delts, and chest. Hitting those without getting in the weight room could be difficult. This is where it gets tricky-what are your limits? Body weight training would work if that's an option. Low intensity training would produce results if that is an option. You can produce hypertrophy with as little as 30% of your maximal load. Producing strength generally requires a load over 65%, but you could get stronger with 50% moving it very explosively. But again, I'm not sure what your limits are.

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[–]GreeneRed 1 points1 points1 points 10 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link

Which doesn't necessarily make sense because sports that require body movement can be far more stressful on your body than other activities that would induce muscle growth.

Something like a soccer game, which fits your doctor's criteria, would be far more taxing on your body, and your heart, than a light workout involving bodyweight exercises, rings, dumbbells, machines, or other ideal methods for creating hypertrophy.

If your doctor's recommendation is based off a fear of your heart being overworked, then you could just keep a heart rate monitor on and make sure the intensity of your workouts doesn't get past a certain mark. You'll probably never get super strong, but you can definitely reach an intermediate level and significant hypertrophy if this is the case. I know a lot of athletes that track their heart rate in workouts, practices, and resting.

I'm unaware of something specific that occurs during weightlifting that puts you in danger that sports wouldn't. Back in my basketball days, lifting weights was a hell of a lot easier than the games and practices themselves.

So, that's what I'm trying to communicate: If its a fear of your heart beating at over a certain rate, then I think you would be able to workout with submaximal intensity and keep heart rate low. But once again, I'm not a doctor. But my gut tells me your doctor is equating intensity with lifting, while equating submaximal with sports.... which doesn't add up for me.

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