Pacemaker Club: Exercise Bike

Exercise Bike

by lmande
2011-07-27 12:07:06
Exercise & Sports
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5 comments

My elderly friend has a pacemaker fitted and is looking for a suitable exercise bike. She is worried about models which have batteries included. Could anyone recommend a suitable (basic) one?

thanks

5 Comments

Bike

by mike thurston - 2011-07-27 01:07:26

I am PM dependent and have used every type of bike and stepper at numerous gyms. There should be no issue what so ever with a pacemaker. Sometimes the equipment may temporarily display a herat rate reading it picks up from the PM. No problem

Exercise with PM

by donb - 2011-07-27 03:07:59

Hi, I just want to add that any expercise if great as I've learned from doing Cardiac Rehab. I'm a PM patient of almost 20 years and also a heart stent patient, hence the Rehab program. The only problem I encountered was getting wrong HR readings as Mike mentioned. I finally used a cheapy Timex which even did better than the hospital monitors during stress tests.

Want to mention the simple warm up exercises every therapy follows. Very important with a PM also. Also important even more so is a gradual cool down when nearing your upper PM limit. I exceeded my top rate of 130 on a treadmill after 45 minutes of exercise & got yanked off the treadmill by an uninformed nurse. Bad News!! Thought I was going to die, on the spot!! So, it's real easy always to do the 15 second pulse count to see where you're at with your heart rate, might even find a few skips like me. donb

true

by biceps72 - 2011-07-28 09:07:14

TRUE recumbent bikes are expensive but super. Don't buy a cheap one== my best advice!

exercise bikes

by evaeli5252 - 2011-08-03 09:08:53

I would stress more on the exercise routine and its effect on the body exhaustion than on the type of exercise bike. You can buy any kind exercise bikes but you got to start at mild rate and go up to normal rate of exercise. You must avoid any tension on your pacemaker for initially 4 months.

Schwinn

by ellen53 - 2011-08-14 10:08:30

I recently bought a Schwinn 240 recumbent. Since you are only using the lower extremities to exercise. the pacemaker area gets to rest. It plugs into the wall outlet so , no batteries and it has built in pulse meter. The nicest thing about it is it is nearly silent, so I can watch tv or listen to music. It was a bit pricey though, but worth it!