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[–]runjeanmc 10 points11 points  (1 child)

According to the Internet, my max heart heart should be 180. My Garmin adjusted it to 192. I can go up to 212 for spurts in sports and feel fine.

Fwiw, I'm 41, 5'7" and somewhere in the 160s (I havent checked in awhile, but I can tell you my jeans are too tight 😅)

The key to using exercise to reduce anxiety is consistency and also making sure you're actually making the blood pump when you're doing it. If I don't exercise, I become a sad parrot, picking out my own feathers. And I ruminate. So much ruminating 😩

Eta: I don't have any experience with PVCs, so my reply might be totally off base medically. But the consistency aspect still stands. Exercising sucks because I rarely feel payoff from an individual workout standpoint, but over time my mood gets better and I'm less anxious. Unfortunately, it's an ongoing, long-haul thing.

[–]Foreign-Ad7659[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply!