AndrewCowley wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:09 am
I'd consider giving it a crack. Seems like a free health check if nothing else. I do wonder at times if cycling 6 days a week poses a heart risk or not.
Speaking from experience, Andrew's thinking, IMHO, is the place where we should all start, regardless of how fit we are cardiovascular wise.
The associated five day test being offered is about electrics, a totally different beast to plumbing issues aka atherosclerosis/heart attack. Two different beasts. And the electrical ones are the ones that are almost always fatal, whereas blocked plumbing is commonly survived even without immediate first aid. Indeed, often without the subject even realising that they have had a heart attack.
Even as I was counting down to retirement, in an aorgansisation of 2000 employees I was a well recognised poster boy of fitness and health. Lean, well muscled, six pack, great cardio, seldom sick. It was built on three decases of bike commuting followed by a decade of unicycle commuting. At retirement I was doing over 8,000kms a year which, on a unicycle, equates to a second job. And that did not included gym work and other activity.
But, while the plumbing was close to excellent - no atherosclerosis - the electrics were waiting, un-diagnosed, to hit with no warning.
And THAT IS THE CRUX OF ELECTRICS. Electrical issues are seldom diagnosed until they hit. And that hit is usually in the form of an SCA, a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. And outside of hospital the chance of surviving an SCA is, in Oz, is between 7 and 10 percent. And if there is no immediate first aid those odds fall rapidly with every minute. And even with an immediate response if someone does not get a defib to you pronto then survival is zero, No exceptions. Your heart MUST have a jolt ASAP or you die.
So my advice to all you exemplars of fitness, if there is a free test on offer, sign up for the research. Just as Andrew is considering.