So ask your doctor specifically what this means. Is exercise worthless if you are taking statins?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23583255
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
Determine if simvastatin impairs exercise training adaptations.
BACKGROUND:
Statins
are commonly prescribed in combination with therapeutic lifestyle
changes, including exercise, to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in
patients with the metabolic syndrome. Statin use has been linked to
skeletal muscle myopathy and impaired mitochondrial function, but it is
unclear whether statin use alters adaptations to exercise training.
METHODS:
We
examined the effects of simvastatin on changes in cardiorespiratory
fitness and skeletal muscle mitochondrial content in response to aerobic
exercise training. Sedentary overweight or obese adults with at least 2
metabolic syndrome risk factors (defined according to National
Cholesterol Education Panel Adult Treatment Panel III criteria) were
randomized to 12 weeks of aerobic exercise training or to exercise in
combination with simvastatin (40 mg per day). The primary outcomes were
cardiorespiratory fitness and skeletal muscle (vastus lateralis)
mitochondrial content (citrate synthase enzyme activity).
RESULTS:
Thirty-seven
participants (exercise plus statins; n=18; exercise only; n=19)
completed the study. Cardiorespiratory fitness increased by 10%
(P<0.05) in response to exercise training alone, but was blunted by
the addition of simvastatin resulting in only a 1.5% increase
(P<0.005 for group by time interaction). Similarly, skeletal muscle
citrate synthase activity increased by 13% in the exercise only group (P
<0.05), but decreased by 4.5% in the simvastatin plus exercise group
(P<0.05 for group by time interaction).
CONCLUSION:
Simvastatin
attenuates increases in cardiorespiratory fitness and skeletal muscle
mitochondrial content when combined with exercise training in overweight
or obese patients at risk of the metabolic syndrome.
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