The Physiology of the 'Powerlifter Heart'

but we have to change the morphology the heart as well and what i what i teach in the course is like with power lifters you're doing a lot of um you're doing a lot of efforts where you're having to brace so you resolve a maneuver you're bracing you're creating a lot of of internal vascular pressure, which then the heart has to try to counteract. So you start damaging the phthalate lining. You start getting hardening of the arteries. The arteries get really stiff. The heart has to then grow and get more muscular in order to perfuse blood properly. So now your blood pressure is rising. So you have very non-pliable vascular system. So your body goes, well, I'll just make a bigger pump. So the musculature of the heart gets a lot thicker. And now one of the problems, like this is a good compensation. The body is very good at compensating. It's very good at like trying to work around dumb shit we do to ourselves, but it does have its limits. So as the, as your heart gets thicker, the chamber that's holding the blood doesn't expand. And in a lot of cases it gets smaller. So now the heart has to beat more rapidly in order to keep blood pushing. So now you have high heart rate. Now you have high blood pressure. And now, yeah, now you get a non-variable. heart rate as well. So you lose heart rate variability and now you're bathing in adrenaline and bathing in adrenaline and try to keep your heart pumping, pumping, pumping, and everything just gets worse. And you start placking and eventually you have a heart attack or your stroke or an embolism or something like that. So if you start taking action, then in a few weeks, if the Mercury is in retrograde and the moon and the stars align, a lot of your like blood pressure stuff will drop a little bit, but you have to keep working on it. I reckon within the first three to five weeks, most people should see a pretty big improvement, but it's going to take probably 12 to 16 weeks to solidify that because we have to change the structure of the heart and what the heart's doing. We have to open that internal cavity a little bit more, which means you have to do stuff where you're constantly pushing blood in there, which is cardio. Which still isn't, I mean, to me, like that doesn't seem like a really long time. No. That's not, if you turn around and said, it's going to take three, four years for you to really make any sort of change most people be like really fuck i don't know if i could be fucked yeah but you know 12 16 weeks that's a prep and most people can deal with their joints hurting and their lives sucking uh for the for the sake of a prep and to hit big numbers so um yeah