EXERCISING FOR A HEALTHY HEART

EXERCISING FOR A HEALTHY HEART

There are a lot of reasons in exercising for a healthy heart, aside from the fact that it burns your excess calories and helps you maintain or reach a healthy weight. Exercising regularly improves factors related to your cardiovascular health. It could result in healthier cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and better blood sugar levels.

Regular exercise also encourages your heart’s arteries to widen readily. It also helps you control your heart rate and blood pressure. However, it may take weeks, months or even years to have its full effects in your body.

If you live an active life, your heart may get stronger and healthier. You don’t need to be an athlete to start exercising. Even a 30-minute walk a day can make a huge difference.

People who do not exercise are prone to have heart disease compared to those who exercise.

Advantage of regular exercise includes the following:

  • Lowers your blood pressure
  • Helps you burn calories
  • Boost your good cholesterol
  • Reduce bad cholesterol

Three kinds of exercise that boost your heart’s health:

Aerobic Exercise

This kind of exercise improves your blood circulation, which results in lower blood pressure and heart rate. Overall, it increases your aerobic fitness and helps your heart beat regularly. Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of having type 2 diabetes, and if you are already diagnosed with such condition, it helps you control your blood sugar.

Generally, doing this type of exercise at least 30 minutes a day for at least 5 days a week could help you obtain better results.

 

Examples include:

  • Running
  • Brisk walking
  • Swimming
  • Cycling
  • Playing tennis
  • Jumping rope

Resistance Training

This type of exercise produces a more specific effect on your body composition. For persons with a lot of body fat, this kind of exercise may help them reduce fat and develop leaner muscle mass. A combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training may help raise your good cholesterol and lower your bad cholesterol.

Doing such a workout for at least 2 days per week is a good thing, according to the American College of Sports Medicine.

Examples include the following:

  • Working out using hand weights, barbells or dumbbells
  • Using weight machines
  • Push-ups
  • Squats
  • Chin-ups

 

Flexibility Workouts

This type of workouts do not directly affect your heart’s health. However, your musculoskeletal health may benefit from it; this will enable you to be flexible and avoid experiencing joint pains, cramps, and other muscular issues. Flexibility exercising for a healthy heart is important in maintaining aerobic exercises and resistant training. It also helps you maintain your stability and balance to prevent you from falling and being injured.

 

Flexibility workouts are usually advised to be done every day and before and after other exercises.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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