Exercise and Your Heart

You've probably heard that it's important to exercise to keep your heart healthy. But you may not know how it actually does this important job. Sometimes knowing the actual mechanism that helps your heart will help motivate you to make the changes you need for a healthier heart.

Directly, exercise actually helps your heart to stay in shape. It increases the amount of blood it can pump with a single beat. It also helps to physically strengthen the muscle that makes up your heart - cardiac muscle. Improving your heart health can improve the circulation all over your body. That means that your body is getting oxygen and nutrients delivered to it more efficiently.

Exercise is also one of the only ways that you can increase your high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels. This is the good cholesterol that actually helps to reduce the amount of plaque on your blood vessels. Having high HDL levels actually helps you to keep your blood vessels from becoming blocked.

If you're feeling stressed or tense, exercise can also leave you feeling relaxed. This indirectly helps your heart to stay healthy. Stress and anxiety can take their toll on your heart by increasing blood pressure and even affecting your diet. By exercising and reducing your physical tension, you can make your heart breathe a sigh of relief as well.

Exercise also helps to improve the quantity and quality of your sleep. The better you sleep, the more likely you are to have normal blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels.

This is often the result of hormones that are regulated by sleep patterns. If you have a hard time falling asleep or you toss and turn, exercise may help you to sleep more soundly and thereby improve your heart health.

By exercising you can also maintain a healthy weight and waistline. Being overweight or obese or having a high ratio of your waist to hips can make you at increased risk of heart disease and heart attack. By moving your body and increasing the energy it uses, you can improve your body composition and put less stress on your heart.

When it comes to exercise, many people feel they have to go all or nothing. But exercise doesn't need to consist of hours of torture at the gym. Even taking a daily walk for 30 minutes can tremendously improve the health of your heart and the rest of your body. If you want to improve your heart health, just step outside and put one foot in front of the other.

Walk Your Way to a Healthy Heart

When people begin an exercise program, they often try to go from 0-100 all at one time. You may think you need to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 6 miles every day, but doing this may actually cause more harm than it does good.

If you've been very sedentary and aren't used to exercise, you may want to try one of the easiest methods of physical activity around. Walking is one of the most basic exercises that can really impact your heart health.

It's a great type of exercise for people at any physical fitness level. But if you've been spending most of your time on the couch, walking is probably the best exercise with which to start.

You may find that you can't walk very far at first, and that's okay. You can gradually build up your distance. For walking, you don't need a lot of special equipment and you don't have to buy an expensive gym membership.

All you need is a pair of good walking shoes and a place to walk. For many people, that means opening the front door and walking in the neighborhood. For others another location will be required for safety or weather restrictions.

But there are many places you can walk that don't cost money. Check with your local mall and see if they open the building for walking. Many shopping malls have groups that walk there in the morning.

It offers a safe place for you to walk that's not exposed to elements of cold, rain, and snow. Local schools and colleges also have tracks that are often open to the public. Your local park may also have walking trails that you can use.

When you're starting a new routine, it often helps to enlist a buddy. Walking with someone can help motivate you to keep up your program and it also can provide safety if one of you becomes injured. Walking with a partner can also keep would-be predators at bay if you're walking in a public area.

You can start your walking program by walking around the block one or two times. As you walk, you'll gradually get in better physical shape. You'll then be able to increase the amount of distance you walk. You may also be able to walk faster and faster as you go.

Walking is an easy exercise that almost anyone can do at any age and physical fitness level. However, you should check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program.

It’s much better to keep yourself from developing heart disease than to try to keep it from getting worse later.
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