I recently had my blood pressure medicine changed, strengthened I am sorry to say. I was told by my physician that I now am taking a beta blocker, the most noticiable side effect he warned me about is during my workout, he said my heart would not be as fast....that I havent noticed....but I have noticed that my arms feel fatigued, dont know if it is a by product of my spottty training recently due to a broken pool pump, 2 funerals, and a kidney stone, or the new medicine....anyone here have any experience with this? thanks in advance.
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I swim everyday but don't compete. I'm 50 and have been taking BB's for 1.5 years. I was on Metoprolol and just recently switched to Bystolic. Neither has given me any muscle aches as side-effect.
I'm working out and not using heart rate as a measurement of how hard I'm working out. I use RPE and work between 6 and 7.
I started swimming laps again about a year ago after a 30 year break, and the arm pain I had at the beginning of my training I dealt with by slowing down, stopping and stretching, going to interval laps instead of 40 minutes of straight laps, alternating between swimming freestyle, then kicking, then pulling. My goal was to just keep my RPE at 6-7 for 30+ minutes. I'm currently now using a 40 minute workout at the same RPE.
A pattern I've noticed is if I don't enough sleep I'll get aches and pains while working out.
I swim everyday but don't compete. I'm 50 and have been taking BB's for 1.5 years. I was on Metoprolol and just recently switched to Bystolic. Neither has given me any muscle aches as side-effect.
I'm working out and not using heart rate as a measurement of how hard I'm working out. I use RPE and work between 6 and 7.
I started swimming laps again about a year ago after a 30 year break, and the arm pain I had at the beginning of my training I dealt with by slowing down, stopping and stretching, going to interval laps instead of 40 minutes of straight laps, alternating between swimming freestyle, then kicking, then pulling. My goal was to just keep my RPE at 6-7 for 30+ minutes. I'm currently now using a 40 minute workout at the same RPE.
A pattern I've noticed is if I don't enough sleep I'll get aches and pains while working out.
