Exercise and Your HeartUnderstandin

Exercise and Your HeartUnderstanding just how physical activity benefits your heart can be strong motivation to get moving to get moving more.A sedentary lifestyle, where your job and your leisure activities involve little or no physical activity, doubles your risk of dying from heart disease. This is similar to the increased risk you would have if you smoked, had high cholesterol or had high blood pressure.Regular exercise is an important way to lower your risk of heart disease. It may also help you be more active without chest pain or other symptoms. Exercising for 30 minutes or more on most days can help you lose weight, improve your cholesterol and even lower your blood pressure by as many as five to seven points. A combination of aerobic workouts depending on your fitness level, can include walking, running, swimming and other vigorous heart-pumping exercise and strength training is considered best for heart health. These exercises improve the muscles’ ability to draw oxygen from the circulating blood. That reduces the need for the heart, a muscular organ itself to work harder to pump more blood to the muscles, whatever your age. Exercise can make your heart muscle stronger. Just make sure the activity is vigorous enough to raise your heart rate. Try the talk and sing test: If you can't talk while you exercise, you're working too hard. If you can sing, you need to work harder. Move More for Heart BenefitsHow can you fit more exercise into your day or become more physically active if you haven’t been before? Begin with small starts and build up from there.Park your car at the far end of a parking lot, so you have farther to walk to a building's entrance.Choose the stairs rather than the elevator.Spend part of your lunch break walking.Wake up a bit earlier and exercise before you do anything else.Use a wearable fitness tracker to count your steps. Try increasing your daily steps by 500 each week with the goal of reaching 10,000 steps per day, a level that can produce many health benefits.(Ending Tagline)Stay Active for a Quality Life