New Physical Protocol has me stumped/not working.

[fitz19d]

So 10 days of an hour a day jog/sprint/walk to recover keeping heart rate 170-180, resting down to 150-60 via wrist monitor. Using a fairly deeply sloped parking lot and a gym treadmill a few of the days. No caffeine, no added salt diet, down 5lbs....... I tested WORSE than before. My max rate is 192 and 163 is like some safety cuttoff and I need to be making 144 or under for final seconds of the treadmill... How the fuck is my cardio seemingly going backwards? I ended first time 150-158 and now over 160.



Only observations to make would be I got to test twice today. I started morning test with only water and I took my aspirin I've taken all week to hopefully thin myself out a little, my allergy med which hopefully also helps keep me down a bit as well as my leftover prescribed valium which I saw widely recommended for those with test anxiety (despite J's strong hate for it.) After failing on that and mentioning I was doing it on an empty stomach they had me come back in 3 hours. So rest, banana/englishmuffin, peanut butter, and back at the test midday to get near identical results peaking 163 a minute in the jump to 7% grade.



My other gripe would be my resting on my dads pulse ox had me mid 60's, comparable to about 70 on the fitness watch and the gym treadmill sensor. But this place is reading me resting today at 85 ish, and the chest band monitor had me at 95 after having stepped onto the treadmill standing there waiting for it to sync. Seems odd for it to be so much higher than so many other decices even knowing they may not be perfectly accurate. The chest monitor they use looks like normal commercial off the shelf than any fancier medical office grade unit.



So currently looking at seeing a cardiologist asap to rule out any problems. Supervisor looking into if I can take it elsewhere to rule out something on their end since I'm paying for it anyways. (And he echo'd what others have said, a ton of guys suddenly struggling with this idiotic treadmill test lately) They had one .mil guy that was ripped and struggled. Heart doc gave him some meds, but also had advised him for this specific test better to train just walking the test at a slightly higher incline/speed was better than normal cardio building jogging etc.