Consulting Gp for exercise

amazingemmet

Seeing as it came up in the young person weightlifting thread, I am just wondering how many people consulted their gp before starting to exercise? The only time I've done it is where it was require before starting some courses I've done. and then all the gp has done is taken my blood pressure, heart rate and signed the form.

Oryx

I had to get tetanus for Tough Guy, so I got the all clear to do it as well, which is recommended. It pretty much consisted of looking me up and down asking what training Im doing and saying I seemed fine for it. No blood pressure checked, but he did say I was mad.

I know its the stock thing youre supposed to do, but I doubt many do unless theyve an underlying problem or carry a lot of weight.

metamorphosis

I went to my GP to get a form signed for a course i was doing - had to get a quick medical. He looked at me, weighed me, took HR, BP, checked eyes and hearing. He then asked what training i do. I told him long distance running. He said do i compete. I replied that i do races like half mnarathons etc. Told him i was currently tapering off for a marathon. He said that if i kept racing i would be crippled in a few decades :rolleyes:

rubadub

I didn't bother as I did not think I needed to, I usually regard such warnings as people covering themselves in these days of insurance claims and nannyism-I do this myself in work with lines in technical documents like "only a qualified electrician should change the plug".

If I was to call out professionals in every recommended situation I would be penniless. I do not need a consultant proctologist to teach me how to wipe my ass, and I do not need to ask my GP if its OK for me to cycle to work and do a few chinups. I never remember being sent to a GP before taking up cycling to school or playing football. If I had an underlying condition or family history of some aliment I would get checked, I would give the benefit of the doubt to people's intellect too and would presume if I recommended eating nuts to somebody who had a nut allergy that they would not blindly follow my advice.

I have reported several posts here before where people were looking for medical advice, the mods have proved very sensible in what in deciding what is unacceptable or not.

arybvtcw0eolkf

A doctor once told me to give up judo, as "at your age you stop bouncing when you hit the ground".. :rolleyes:

At my medicals my doctor keeps telling me to get down to 13st!..

No matter how hard I try he can't see that there's not a snowballs chance in hell can I do that, even stripping off every once of fat I couldn't do it.

Having said that, if someone showed up at Judo practice tonight, morbidly obese, huffing & puffing on an inhaler, in a wheelchair etc my first bit of advice would be "buddy, go get the all clear from your doctor and come back to us".

Sometimes, actually always I find that common sense is not common!.

davmol

Most fitness programmes ,as a disclaimer, tell you to seek medical advice before you start a programme to cover themselves but i dont anyone who's ever started a physical activity by going to a GP and asking for his advice or a medical check up .Ive never bothered and i dont know why you would unless you were aware of a serious underlying medical issue.

DOctors always air on the side of caution and if we all listened to them we'd be at home wrapped in coton wool and not participating in anything remotely contacting in sport

Canis Lupus

Davis Silly Eggshell wrote: »

A doctor once told me to give up judo, as "at your age you stop bouncing when you hit the ground".. :rolleyes:

Shoulda stared him down and asked him in a low voice what he was trying to say about your judo skillz.