Exercise & Heart Disease
Combating Heart Disease with Regular Aerobic Exercise
Exercise is one of the major keys to helping prevent or to helping stop the progression of heart disease. When exercise is combined with dietary changes, the benefits to patients reach far beyond controlling and preventing heart disease. Regular exercise will help with hypertension, weight loss and maintenance, all of which impact the your overall heart health.
Many years ago, anyone diagnosed with heart disease was instructed to avoid physical activity. Ongoing medical research has repeatedly shown that this treatment method did more harm than good. Now, exercise is strongly encouraged in the prevention and treatment of heart disease as well as to help prevent a future heart attack. This especially true for people who already have CAD (coronary artery disease). Continue reading
Exercise Intensity – Part 3
Turning Up Your Fat Burning Metabolism
Previously, we learned the basic the differences between aerobic and anaerobic exercise as it relates to carbohydrate burning and fat burning. This article will continue where the other left off, which was explaining why trading mid-exercise fat burning with post-exercise calorie burning isn’t such a raw deal.
When the body is running in the upper range of your target heart rate (THR), it burns more calories in less time than when you’re working in your lower intensity fat-burning-zone. That’s not all. Not only does it burn more calories during exercise, your metabolism is revved up for quite a while after you’ve finished exercising. This residual metabolism boost will allow your body to quietly resume its fat-burning activities, even while your not actively exercising! Continue reading
Exercise Intensity – Part 2
In the last article, we discussed exercise intensity. Today, we’ll talk about the differences between aerobic and anaerobic exercises, and touch on what impact they can have on your workout and your longterm goals. This can be a complicated subject to describe, so I’ll try to make it simple.
Fat burning by the body requires a consistent level of oxygen. The amount of oxygen it requires is considerably greater than what is required to burn carbohydrates. When you increase the intensity of your activity to the point that you can’t supply enough oxygen for the body to continue its fat-burning, it switches over to start burning more carbohydrates and less fat. Keep that “switch” in mind, I’ll refer back to it a little later. Continue reading
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