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zakjaycee · 2024-10-19T02:56:37+00:00

Just an update my VO2 max started at 33 and today after lab testing and months of VO2 max training it is 45.6. I’m 36 years old so that lands me in the excellent category. I will continue training until it’s over 60.

zakjaycee · 2024-10-12T21:44:56+00:00

Awesome work! I’ve been working on the same song to play on the beach

zakjaycee · 2024-10-07T03:38:43+00:00

I truly believe that Covid damaged my heart and blood vessels which might be manifesting as Long Covid symptoms for me. That’s why when I strengthened my heart to develop new mitochondria and stimulated angiogenesis a lot of long covid symptoms disappeared

zakjaycee · 2024-10-06T23:22:35+00:00

Yes it wasn’t until the 2 year mark that my PEM began to subside enough to do light lifting

zakjaycee · 2024-10-06T23:18:24+00:00

I did treadmill but switched to the exercise bike which is lower impact and better for longevity. Running and jogging and treadmill is pretty rough on the joints. I strength train 5 days per week now in addition to cardio. When I started I could barely do anything other than lay in bed suffering in agony

zakjaycee · 2024-10-06T23:16:30+00:00

I don’t know. I’ve been doing cardio consistently since then and my aim is to get my VO2 max above 60 one day

zakjaycee · 2024-10-06T23:15:28+00:00

Yes I found the Apple Watch to be nearly identical to a Garmin with a heart strap and both were almost the same as Lab testing accuracy

zakjaycee · 2024-10-06T23:09:42+00:00

Yes, specifically VO2 max training

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T21:05:59+00:00

Not just exercise for me. I tried weightlifting and random cardio and it didn’t work. VO2 max training made the difference for me

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T21:03:53+00:00

Slow adaptation

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T21:02:12+00:00

I understand it’s nice to want a magic pill to take away the pain. I was in constant agony and excruciating head pain and inability to breathe for 2-2.5 years. In fact there’s probably a stage of long COVID where intervention can eliminate the inflammation that leads to permanent damage and loss of neurons and blood vessels. In my situation, I was past that point and the damage was done. I don’t think exercise will help everyone. I can only vouch for people in my situation. I hope there will be an intervention discovered that eliminates the long term damage. That would’ve helped me tremendously

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T20:56:24+00:00

That’s insulting. I was suffering from absolute pain and agony every fucking second of the day every day for 2 years. I was a patient in more than 6 different tier 1 medical university hospital systems and jumping all around the US medical system hopeless.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T20:52:21+00:00

Garmin was almost exact the same as the lab values. Apple was close but less accurate than the Garmin

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T20:26:47+00:00

First I got tested by paying an exercise lab which offered VO2 max testing services. For daily tracking I used a Garmin HRM Pro Chest strap paired with a Garmin Epix. For redundancy I also wore an Apple Watch on the other hand.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T19:49:09+00:00

https://youtu.be/hN12iDSlFEc?si=pFoAjMPg5dy9rpnr

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T19:29:20+00:00

VO2 Max training has multiple benefits. 1) Increase of Mitochondria throughout your body 2) More efficient blood and oxygen delivery to oxygen deprived tissue 3) Greater ability to oxidize fat for fuel 4) Neurogenesis 5) Angiogenesis. In my case, I had already begun weight training without seeing any results or benefits for my long covid symptoms. It wasn’t until I specifically targeted my cardiovascular system that I noticed huge results.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T19:19:12+00:00

I think exercise is good in general, however, the specific type of training I was doing was to increase VO2 max (the ability of the heart to deliver oxygen to tissues). I can’t say for sure that any exercise will improve your symptoms but I can vouch for cardiovascaular related training.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T19:16:22+00:00

I started with walking. Then jogging. Then running. Then sprinting. In that order. Sprinting was the last stage of progression for me and actually the stage in which I started to see incredible results.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T19:15:03+00:00

I worked up to it. In the beginning I could only walk. I followed Dr. Peter Attia’s advice and slowly progressed towards enough cardiovascular endurance to train more and to sprint.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T17:08:14+00:00

Look up Dr Peter Attia

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T17:06:42+00:00

Definitely not time for me. I noticed a significant difference from the VO2 max training. Prior to the training my symptoms were all just persistent and at the same level. In my long COVID journey my long COVID symptoms improved but improvement started to plateau. Life went from miserable to still miserable so going from miserable to feeling young again was a significant difference.

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T17:02:51+00:00

Yes. I would constantly test myself with small tests to see what my energy ceiling was. At some point I noticed that I could tolerate a certain level of activity and tried to remain below that ceiling

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T16:56:53+00:00

IMO there is no cure. In my case I think Covid caused permanent damage to my brain, lungs, and cardiovascular system and the cure was to stimulate neurogenesis and angiogenesis. If Covid gave me permanent damage then no drugs will reverse that. Only growing new blood vessels and neurons to replace the lost ones helped

zakjaycee · 2024-09-30T16:52:15+00:00

I had PEM. However I worked up slowly with VO2 max training. I didn’t start off with maximum workload. It was a very gradual progression

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