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Diane M Wilden

3 years, 3 months ago

Hello I received my Frontier X this week, My Cardiologist had asked me to get something that could record my ECG at home as I am having interesting heart behaviour when I’m on our Recumbent spin bike the issues is intermittent and each time I borrow a machine to do a 72hr heart monitor my heart behaves beautifully and we don’t get to capture the…Read More

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- Dr. Peter Joseph
  3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Hi Diane,
  Since you’re looking to hit a target heart rate, perhaps you can set alerts on heart rate instead of breathing rate to achieve your goal. 60 breaths a minute would be a high-intensity effort! Keeping in mind your medical issues it would be best to get clearance from an expert to make sure you’re not pushing yourself too hard.
  We’ve had…Read More
The Chadd

3 years, 3 months ago

Howdy! I picked up the Frontier X after my cardiologist told me to limit my exercise to “light to moderate” workouts while we address my idiopathic cardiomyopathy (7 cm). I am not convinced that exercise is the cause. Even with my most intense workouts, the most Cardiac Strain my Frontier X has reported was 0.04, with an average of 0.01. Are…Read More

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- Dr. Peter Joseph
  3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Hi The Chadd,
  I hope you’ve been enjoying the Frontier X. We hope you’re using breathing rate alerts to regulate your exercise intensity to light and moderate workouts as you desired.
  It’s completely normal for most individuals to have normal cardiac strain during intense workouts and may not be related to cardiomyopathy. Here is some more…Read More
  - The Chadd
    3 years, 3 months ago
    
    Okay, good to know! I’ll keep my focus on heart rate during my activities. I also have a follow-up with my cardiologist pretty soon, and I hope he will be willing to review the data
Malcolm

3 years, 3 months ago

Hi, I’m new to frontier x. I bought it because I have exercise induced AFib. What advice ca you give me with respect to training with Frontier x?

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- Dr. Peter Joseph
  3 years, 3 months ago
  
  Hi Malcolm,
  Welcome to the Frontier heart Forum!
  The Frontier X is a great tool for exercising when you have cardiac concerns.
  Here are 3 tips to get the most out of your Frontier X.
  1. Set vibration alerts.- set alerts on heart rate, breathing rate or cardiac strain to achieve your training goal. Link
  
  2. Review your training load to compare…Read More
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3 years, 5 months ago

We undergo Cardio Training to strengthen the heart, but if we don’t follow a proper schedule, are there any chances of harming the heart instead of strengthening it?

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- Prof John Buckley
  3 years, 5 months ago
  
  I think people have to appreciate that being a high-level professional athlete is an occupational hazard, and people take on those risks and they put their bodies through extreme cases, but usually, they stop doing them by the time they get to thirty-five when the body decides that it can’t cope with that level. So, you…Read More
- Dr Aashish Contractor
  3 years, 5 months ago
  
  Yes, I mean, if you do it wrong, you can damage yourself, I mean, you’ve got to do something pretty crazy to do damage to yourself. But more likely, you might damage yourself from a musculoskeletal point of view before you even damage yourself from a heart point of view, if you do silly stuff. In fact, Tim Hutchings and I were talking yesterday,…Read More
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3 years, 5 months ago

Hi, I’m interested to know Professor Buckley’s view on cardiac rehab for ARVC patients. Is exercise safe for these people?

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- Prof John Buckley
  3 years, 5 months ago
  
  First thing is, what do we define as exercise? ARVC is Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Dr Contractor might want to comment, but I can’t give a blanket recommendation on a question like that, it needs careful evaluation. But when we talk about exercise, what do people mean by this? We have…Read More
  - Dr Aashish Contractor
    3 years, 5 months ago
    
    I’d just like to add a bit more to Prof Buckley’s answer. So, yeah, ARVC potentially could be something which needs serious evaluation. I think you must meet with your doctor, preferably a sports cardiologist who understands it. And then based on the patterns of his ECG, you can be given exercise advice. It would be difficult to give advice over…Read More
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