Tightness in chest during hard exercise: serious or not?
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I would get that checked
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Tightening the muscles before you get into the pose to inhibit air from getting in could help. In such a pose when you're open like that, air can leak in, and then when you get out of the position your muscles close up again, thus pushing out the air that's been accumulated.\n\nI hope you know which muscles I'm talking about.
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Try adjusting the width of your bench grip. If your grip is too narrow (like shoulder width or less apart) then you're going to be relying on your triceps a lot to do the lift. Spread your grip and you should feel more of the weight on your chest.\n\nSame thing goes for push-ups. Also try doing some chest exercises using cross cables. Search the net for info on those exercises. Personally, I really like using cross cables. Really helps work the entire chest.
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alright instead of a long docter explanation, its a shortage of breath and your chest when trying to regain breath its kinda like a positive negative reaction. they suck but if u loose breath again and slowly come back to breathing normal youll be fine.
537403
Oh my god!  Go to the ER!!  Ahh, not really though I am sure someone is going to answer that.  They always do.  \n\nFirst off I agree that this is extremely unlikely to be cardiac related.  I am comforted by the fact that you can replicate the discomfort by movement.  The most likely thing that you did was either a muscle strain or possibly even a sprain where the ligaments stabilize the cartilage and bone joint at about your central chest (roughly at the nipple line vertically).  If its a sprain you should be able to isolate the spot right there.  If its a strain its more likely to be generalized.  Either way  the treatment is the same.  Rest, Ice, anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen.  After a day if you are still having the discomfort you can add a warm water soak and gentle stretching to the plan.  It should resolve on its own within the week.\n\n(Oh, and I really buy the getting ready for bed story wink wink)\n\nGood luck.. I hope you're feeling better soon.
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I know what you mean because I'm very large breasted and my chest hits my knees when I run!  Just kidding.  I started using a firming cream by Avon intended for the face.  I really notice a difference in the firmness of the skin.  It is called Anew and I use it just like lotion.  They also have a cellulite treatment I use on my tummy which has noticeably firmed that up, too.
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Treadmill stress electrocardiography is employed widely to detect underlying cardiovascular disease in asymptomatic persons. To determine the frequency and significance of an abnormal S-T segment response to exercise in young athletes with increased left ventricular (LV) mass induced by physical conditioning, 75 male isometrically trained athletes without evidence of heart disease (mean age 21 years) and 48 nonathletic young normal subjects were studied by M-mode echocardiography and exercise electrocardiography. Ventricular septal and posterior free wall thicknesses and calculated LV mass were significantly greater in athletes than in control subjects. An abnormal S-T segment response to exercise was present in 7 (9%) of the 75 athletes, all of whom had a LV mass greater than 275 g and in 5 the LV mass was above the 95th percentile of that of the control subjects. An abnormal treadmill exercise test result also was present in 3 (6%) of 48 control subjects. Seven of the 10 subjects with abnormal exercise test results had radionuclide angiograms at rest and with exercise, each of which was normal. It is concluded, therefore, that (1) abnormal exercise test results occur commonly in both athletes and non-athletes; (2) almost 10% of isometrically trained athletes have "false-positive" exercise electrocardiograms, suggesting that this test has major limitations in screening for underlying cardiovascular disease in athletes; and (3) in athletes, a relation was present between "physiologically" increased LV mass and false-positive exercise test results.
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a muscler tes bras et surtout tes pectoraux
785420
Lower than recommended nutrition could be part of the problem.  I would also say that it could be the intercostal muscles (the muscles between your ribs) that you could have strained from overworking in combination with your body working hard to compensate for lack of adequate nutrients.  STOP exercising or tone it way down until the pain goes away, if you exercise it will only get worse.  Try foods high in protein, that will assist in muscle building. Also try transition hot-cold packs to ease the pain.  I hope this helps! \nOh, if the pain lasts for longer than two weeks, hurts really bad and/or if it hurts to breathe, like if the pain is in your lungs, I would see a doctor.
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I don't think its safe to wear girdles everyday....its tight and hampers blood circulation.....
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When you close your glottis and bear down, you increase the pressure inside of your skull, chest, and abdomen.  It's definitely a good idea to make sure you don't bear down for too long at a time.  You could get dizzy and/or pass out, which could be especially dangerous if you're lifting weights.  By the way, the bearing down is called the "Valsalva maneuver."
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The muscles underlaying the skin are tightened by the exercise so it pulls the skin tighter...;
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you could have just strained a muscle in your rib cage... breathing requires the movement of a lot of these muscles, especially breathing out, so that action could be causing a compression or stretch on the muscle. Just relax and try not and do anything to make you breath really deep or forcefully and hopefully it will go away...
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Bad posture should not crush your sternum; it takes much force for this i.e. car accident.
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Tightening chest muscle, a tight chest. Also a pain down the left arm is a sgn of a heart attack. Feeling nauseated is a common symptom and she may have felt really groggy. Please do yourself a favour and get her checked out. Its better to be safe than sorry
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AC at certain amperage will cause your muscles to contract. making it impossible to let go.
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There are several ways:\n\n1.  Patient presents with symptoms of chest tightness and shortness of breath with activity and/or emotion upset\n\n2.  A stress test is administered which simulates physical activity at a prescribed rate and incline with changes happening every three minutes.  The test is concluded when the patient reaches exhaustion, there are indicative EKG changes, or the patient needs to stop for other reasons - knee pain, chest pain, etc.  There are advanced versions of this test that take images of the heart.  There also are chemical versions to simulate the exercise.\n\n3.  A specialized CT exam could be performed focusing on the coronary arteries.\n\n4.  An angiogram could be performed where radio-opaque dye is infused into the arteries and a real time xray is taken to observe the flow through the arteries.\n\nI mentioned the EKG, if certain changes are present, can tell you certain things that are reasonably accurate.  A person who is not having symptoms however would not likely demonstrate an abnormal EKG indicative of clogged arteries.\n\nGood luck.