I play a lot of racquetball, which I started several years before I started vaping. I haven't really noticed a difference in endurance, but I wear a heart rate monitor (to tell me how many calories I burn). I've noticed that since I started vaping my resting heart rate is a bit lower, and the max heart rate I reach during an intense rally is lower. Before the max I would get to was 183, now the highest I seem to get is ~174.
Anyone workout and vape?
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I can also confirm that vaping and working out is nothing like smoking analogs and working out..
Causes me no troubles at all and i am never out of breath. Haha
Causes me no troubles at all and i am never out of breath. Haha
A few weeks ago, at the cottage, loaded 90 wheelbarrows of topsoil, moved them about 90' and spread it out. Also leveled the driveway where the load sat for 9 months. All in 6 hrs and it was HOT. Next day into the bay and swam 5 miles. Told my wife the soil spreading, when I was smoking, would've been a 2 day job. As for the swimming- impossible while smoking.
Edit: Last Fri. helped a friend frame a 14' X 14" addition. Finished everything in one day...of course had a nailer- as a smoker couldn't have done it.
Edit: Last Fri. helped a friend frame a 14' X 14" addition. Finished everything in one day...of course had a nailer- as a smoker couldn't have done it.
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I smoked hard for 35 years, and have been a year and two months (today!) since my last cigarette. The last month or so I have become a beginning bicycle rider. I am fortunate to live near the USA's largest rail trail (converted railroad bed to bicycle trail, you could ride for 250 miles and never meet a car.
I'm new enough to biking that I don't try to vape while riding, still learning how to talk without crashing... There are benches every couple of miles, I vape when I stop to rest/drink water. I do get some funny looks from other bikers/hikers, but nobody has mentioned it.
As someone said above, I am never having to stop from being out of breath, which would have been the story for most of the rest of my life.
I'm new enough to biking that I don't try to vape while riding, still learning how to talk without crashing... There are benches every couple of miles, I vape when I stop to rest/drink water. I do get some funny looks from other bikers/hikers, but nobody has mentioned it.
As someone said above, I am never having to stop from being out of breath, which would have been the story for most of the rest of my life.
Haha yup I bike to and from work and smoking while biking was way easier. And whenever you drop something on your bike, you feel like you look like a huge ......... for going back to get it. ::shrug:: Theres some psychological/sociological stuff going on there.
What best is now that I vape, I don't get winded anywhere near as bad when I'm tearing up the steep hills. The effect for me was only 3 days after quitting analogs. Amazing and i still can't believe it.
I agree with all you guys. I am now on day 5 of p90x and probably wouldn't have made it to day 2 if I was still smoking. Heck I wouldn't have made it to day 1 if I was still smoking. My muscles are in so much pain but I love it...weird 
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I have always had a desire to workout and get back into shape. I started a transformation challenge at the beginning of this year and trying to workout and be a smoker just does not work for me. It is one thing that lead me back to vaping- the desire to quit smoking so that I could feel I was getting a more effective workout.
I always used the smoking as an excuse to not workout. I figured I was having so much trouble with it due to smoking. I am starting a new challenge on Monday and I feel like this time I am going to make it happen with no more excuses!
I have noticed since cutting down to 2 or 3 cigarettes a day (down from 20) there is a big difference in how much air I can take into my lungs. I test it sometimes.
We should have a separate area for vapers that exercise and workout. Anyone?
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I always used the smoking as an excuse to not workout. I figured I was having so much trouble with it due to smoking. I am starting a new challenge on Monday and I feel like this time I am going to make it happen with no more excuses!
I have noticed since cutting down to 2 or 3 cigarettes a day (down from 20) there is a big difference in how much air I can take into my lungs. I test it sometimes.
We should have a separate area for vapers that exercise and workout. Anyone?
-Jason
Yes, tremendous workout here, of my elbow bringing the vape gear up to mouth.
Kidding aside, I'm in better shape now than I was 30 years ago and 20 pounds lighter.
Kidding aside, I'm in better shape now than I was 30 years ago and 20 pounds lighter.
Not lifting weights, but it really helped with conditioning with my BJJ. It's much longer before I get to that point where you feel like you're actually not getting enough oxygen into your body for the output of work you're doing. Basically it takes longer for me to feel like there is not enough air in the atmosphere left for me to breath
Sometimes I'll walk and Vape, although I probably look funny doing it! It's allot better than smoking though!
bebeau25, the Katy Trail has been there since 1870 as an early railroad. I am a beginning bicycle rider and am fortunate to live a few minutes away from a trailhead. You could ride it for 250 miles, and never see a car.
The bike is several years old and worn, as am I. I bought it used and cheap, I am trying to fix up both the bike and myself. If I can keep repairing the damage (minimal on the bike, I smoked hard for 35 years) and keep fixing us both up? I hope I can keep doing it.
It has been hot in Midwest USA, a few days ago I paused in this old railroad tunnel. 15 deg F. cooler than the ambient temps, a good place for a break!
The bike is several years old and worn, as am I. I bought it used and cheap, I am trying to fix up both the bike and myself. If I can keep repairing the damage (minimal on the bike, I smoked hard for 35 years) and keep fixing us both up? I hope I can keep doing it.
It has been hot in Midwest USA, a few days ago I paused in this old railroad tunnel. 15 deg F. cooler than the ambient temps, a good place for a break!
Beautiful pic...glad you are enjoying this new found passion. I feel your pain with this heat. I went for a jog yesterday after my p90x workout, the temp was 106°F. Lots of sweat!!! Got home and enjoyed a shower and then a little cheesecake vape!!!
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I'm a full month into my P90X workout and it just keeps getting better. I played racquetball the other day against my cousin who smokes still, it was awesome to see him gasping for air and me barely winded. I did feel a little sorry for him though.
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I vape when on the machines and working out. Get some strange looks and some employees ask me what I am doing. I just state it is a medical device to help my breathing and well being and they haven't stopped me yet. How is P90X?
P90X is great. I'm having so much fun being able to do these intense workouts when before I would get winded walking up a long flight of stairs. Don't think I could do it and vape at the same time though.
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