Health Matters

I am still having fun with waking up too early in the morning and am being told I need to 'relax more' which seems counter productive when I'm also told I need to get my heart rate up! The latest regime now includes a session of HIIT first thing in the morning, and splitting my 40 minute brisk walk into two higher intensity 20 minute walks. This makes sence and I added a second walk later yesterday which actually got my heart rate up into the 'Anaerobic' band, which I thin…

It's April and I've only 8 more days of physio on my knee. Only problem is after 3 and a bit months my knee seems stiffer and tighter than it was at the start. So much so that I've resorted to ibuprofen gel before I add my brisk walk to the mix. Only good thing is that today my heart is in a good mode and I've managed two blood pressure readings with the latest just 124/69 ... straight after my physio. Lets see how the rest of the day goes as I only managed one reading yesterd…

Has it really been two weeks since I tried to start this? A lot has gone on in that time such as completing my physio course only to find that I had not needed to do the whole 20 weeks. Now I am on a new 20 week course, but I intend to replace it by some extra steps in my new moring exercise session which includes a 10 minute HIIT session to get my heart rate up. That I can't get proper support from the NHS to help sort out just what I SHOULD be doing to help both my Leg and my Heart is p…

This post would be just as well paced in the ran't column as it's something I've been having to contend with for years. Time zone's and in particular daylight saving has plagued computer systems for years, and even today some systems do not automatically change the time offset as required and one has to manually fix the time, just like any analogue clock. In the 1990's I was working on timetabling systems for the always, and many of the older systems could not actually run…

Now that I have a weeks worth of readings via the watch I'm thinking where to go next. My heart runs in two modes, good and bad, although the bad mode may not be consistent. A bad pulse is characterised by a strong first pulse followed by a poor second pulse and a delay with a basic rate in the 30BPM range. There may well be a few good pulses between each bad pulse, but first thing in the morning they tend to be all bad. I've just done my physio on my right knee and that seems to get…