paulosoxo – Member
Anxiety?
If anything exercise relieves symptoms of anxiety. Though moderate exercise of climbing the stairs maybe not, but I wouldn’t expect shortness of breath though. High HR or pounding heart, and a pile of other weird symptoms with anxiety yes. Running or riding bikes though is a major benefit to anxiety.
In early days of getting more active I used to find post bike ride my HR would stay up in the 70s/80s for half a day after the ride and eventually fall down to 60. Occasionally felt light headed after standing too. Over time that’s all gone away. HR drops fairly quick post ride and even when stopping during a ride. If I don’t drink any alcohol my resting rate at home can drop down to 40ish sometimes. Freaks me out when it does that, wondering if the thing is still beating! 😀
The shortness of breath may be worth checking out. More so if any chest or arm pain accompanies it. Though I’d expect it to be worse when running etc if it’s anything bad.
Mind you, I find lugging supermarket shopping into the house can make me feel knackered, but a bike ride is fine.