🏋️‍♀️ Extended version of this interview: https://www.patreon.com/posts/holding-breath-78538575 🏋️‍♀️

Kate Drury is a powerlifter and emergency nurse who also works in academia at UNSW Sydney, specializing in the area of cardiovascular exercise physiology. She is currently a PhD candidate studying the effects of exercise on heart function in patients with heart failure. After months of searching, I have finally found an expert to talk about cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) health and weightlifting.

From the day I read a research paper on cardiac complications in different sports, I was dying to ask someone about the possible negative effect of weightlifting on the heart. Are there any risks for the heart related to do ...