Author considered as a newly reconstituted gym rat, one year in

Tomorrow I visit my cardiologist one year after he cleared me to start exercising again (I have a heart defect, it’s likely Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. You can’t tell for sure unless you biopsy the heart, which is a bad idea while you’re still living.)

Some reactions:

1. I’m still alive after a year of experimenting with exercising again. Go team!

2. I’m kinda nervous that I get told to ease back so I’m somewhat not looking forward to going in.

Seeing as that it’s been one year, I’m in an Au...