Prevention Of Age Related Heart Diseases

Cardio Workouts For A Healthy Heart:

Cardiovascular or dynamic exercise involves steady, physical activity using large muscle groups. This type of exercise strengthens the heart and lungs and improves the body’s ability to use oxygen. Over a period of time, cardio exercises can help decrease your heart rate, blood pressure and improve your breathing. Aerobic exercises include walking, jogging, jumping the rope, bicycling (stationary or outdoors), skating, rowing and low-impact water aerobics.
1. Cycling: Bicycle rides improve the heart’s size and pumping ability in patients with stable heart failure (who have had a history of heart failure). Countless exercise programmes claim to trim the thighs, abs and buttocks, but how many offer to reshape a flabby heart? Aerobics exercises do just that for patients with stable heart failure, literally turning an enlarged heart into a trimmer, more efficient organ.
2. Walking: Walking 3 hours a week can reduce women’s risk of a heart attack by 40% and walking more than five hours a week can slash their risk by 50%. It is a moderate form of physical exercise which also helps reduce the amount of bad cholesterol. Walking the treadmill will also reap similar health benefits. Take care to walk at a speed and intensity, suggested by your doctor.

3. Swimming: It is an excellent aerobic activity that uses almost all muscle groups. It makes the heart stronger, making it pump more blood per beat. But you have to take care as a higher intensity may prove harmful. In addition, the buoyancy factor makes this activity almost injury-proof. Swimming for three hours a week amounts to moderate physical exercise which can cut the risk of death by heart failure in people suffering from type 2 diabetes.

What Kind Of Exercise Is Good:
Studies show that when patients with heart failure did aerobic exercises several times a week, the oversized heart became significantly smaller and pumped blood more efficiently. Those who added weight lifting to the exercise routine to enhance muscle strength did not enjoy a similar improvement in the heart’s size of function.

Work Out On Elliptical Exercise Machines:
Elliptical trainers have great features which are not easily found in other types of home-exercise equipment. You are sure to get a low-impact, cardio-friendly, total-body workout. Their low-impact design also prevents injuries. Some people compare the workout they get on elliptical exercise machines to pedalling on a stationary bike while standing up. Since you can adjust the incline, speed and other factors, you can maximize the cardio impact of the exercise, making elliptical trainers more effective than weight lifting and leg presses.