Do you have good cardiovascular fitness?

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I’m trying to improve mine, maybe I can get back to my younger days when I had the cardio of an athlete.

I think having good cardio is good for mental health.

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I used to walk on my treadmill a lot about 10 years ago, and I think it did improve my mental health. I need to get back on it more consistently, but I have been struggling with motivation lately.

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Nah… Im Fat and out of shape. I bike and lift but it’s really slow getting back to were I was.

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Nope not anymore. It’s almost impossible to have good cardio on aps. When I was in my 20s I was running 20km runs every second day, just for fun and exercise. Im 40 now and can’t hardly run at alll.

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For me it’s impossible to gain muscle on APs, but I think I have improved cardio before, hope it works this time…

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Yes you can improve cardio a little bit, but your cardio will be impaired from your natural potential.

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Do you know why it is like that?

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I looked into it. I found this research paper.Whats a good all round med? - #57 by broken

Basically the genius who wrote the paper concluded that he didn’t know why.

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I read some of it. Can’t say that I understand all the terminology completely. If it’s true it sucks though.

I’m pretty sure I have increased my cardio fitness significally in the past while being on antipsychotics.

But maybe you’re right, maybe you can only get so far.

I can be an experiment in that. I’m on 7.5mg zyprexa.

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I used to jog while on 10mg of zyprexa, and was pretty fit for a while, but that was 10 years ago before the insomnia hit. With the insomnia I think jogging would deteriorate my health even more. I do manage to do strenght sporadically though, when sleep is not too bad.

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Define good. I don’t run a mile in 6 mins anymore. I can easily carry a pizza and soda upstairs.

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I’m slowly building up. I spent 10 years mostly on my couch. Now I’m trying to get back into shape.

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I started exercising more in May of this year. I went from walk/jogging 1.5 miles at a time to now walk/jogging up to 8 miles. I can jog a mile in 13 minutes now. But my long runs i do intervals of walking and jogging. I try to do one long run a week, plus 3 shorter runs that add up to my long run.

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