Circulation and Aerobics Exercise
Are you moving around enough so that your circulation is stimulated?
Aerobic exercises get the circulation moving and the heart pumping.
Aerobics helps tone the heart muscle, lower blood pressure; reduce your risk of heart attack, control blood sugar and increase alertness and overall well-being.
According to the National Institutes of Health, the best exercises that are non sports activities are those that increase the heart rate and maintain elevated heart rates for at least ten minutes – aerobic exercises.
That gives your heart time to get pumping and spark your metabolism so that it keeps working that extra bit harder for as much as an hour after you finish exercising. The general recommendation for a workout is ten minutes of warm-up and stretching, ten minutes of moderately vigorous exercise and ten minutes to cool down and stretch.
If the term ‘aerobic exercise’ has you shaking your head at the thought of bouncing around the gym in skin-tight shiny spandex, you can relax. Aerobic exercise is ANY activity that can get your heart to work out along with your other muscles.
Among the exercise that the American Physical Therapy Association recommends for seniors are golf, gardening, walking, swimming and jogging.
There’s almost no physical activity that you can’t turn into a heart healthy aerobic workout. Choose your sport and try one of these workouts from the American Physical Therapy Association.
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