I am going to make my annual check up, and usually I just go to my company’s doctor and ask for a blood test prescription. Over the years, they have asked for different exams from one year to another, making it difficult to compare the status of each year. So, this year, I am going to take a list of the tests from previous years and ask them simply to prescribe them again, in order to compare how each one of them varied from one year to another.
That said, given that I feel fine and have no symptoms of health problems, is there any one or more tests that you would recommend keeping an eye on, specifically for someone in the strength training context? I imagine there is nothing far from the usual concerns in blood tests (cholesterol, triglycerides, sugar, creatinine, hemogram, …), if no symptoms are present, but just making sure.
Just to make my line of thought clear, in case my question seems rather pointless. In my engineer head, I can’t avoid thinking of the body as a machine. If I’m subjecting it to a harder stress, training with more volume than previously, lifting more weight than previously, it makes sense to me thinking that I will also need to pay further attention in preventive mantenance (let’s call it this way), so I might need to pay attention in certain details, or indicators, or some thing like this, to make sure that everything is running smoothly and that no harm is being done by the increased stress.
FWIW, I do know that the body is not simply a machine, and I do not believe that by training I am harming my body in some way, necessarily. But these “precautions” make sense in my head, so just making sure if there is any reason to them, or how to apply these concerns in a more productive way.