By: Richard Santa-Cruz, MD, Cardiologist with the Dale Michels Center for Heart Care To have a strong and healthy heart, it is very important to stay active and exercise! Anything that gets your heart rate jumping will improve heart strength, including jumping up and down when the Packers score a touchdown in a tie game with only [...]
Tag Archives | Aerobic exercise
True or False? Exercising increases stress and blood pressure.
False! We all know that exercise will reduce stress and decrease blood pressure. Exercise releases good chemicals into our bloodstream, endorphins for one. Exercise can be used to decrease the symptoms of depression or seasonal affective disorder by combating the harmful chemicals the body dumps into it with stress and depression. Exercise also reduces muscle [...]
Women’s Health: What should you know about heart health?
February – as American Heart Month – is the perfect time to talk about heart disease in women. Symptoms of a heart attack in women can be a little different than those in men. The most classic symptom is chest pain – in the front, radiating to either shoulder or down either arm, as well [...]
True or False? Ab exercises will flatten my stomach.
True or False? Doing abdominal exercises will give me a flat stomach without attention to my diet. I can burn the fat away in a specific area if I work at it. False! There is no ab roller, infomercial devise, tea or exercise that will give you a flat stomach. It is a very [...]
True or False? Regular aerobic exercise…
True or False: Regular aerobic (target heart rate dependent) exercise allows your heart to beat stronger, pump more blood each beat and decrease the number of beats at rest. If you said true, you are right! The only way to exercise the heart muscle is by pushing the heart rate up with cardiovascular exercise. Generally [...]
Video blog: Stability ball exercises
Stability (or Swiss, physio or balance) balls are a great way to challenge your muscles. Performing exercises on the ball rather than on a table can improve your balance, coordination, and strength of stabilizing muscles. Movement patterns done with or on the ball are great for building core strength and improving proprioception. Proprioception is how [...]
Exercise: Good Rx for Heart Failure
Don remembers his grandmother sitting all day, every day in her rocking chair. Her slippered feet and ankles were noticeably swollen, and she walked very slowly and with great effort whenever she got up from the chair. The early doctors called it dropsy, meaning swelling or abnormal accumulation of fluids under the skin. Today it [...]
A Review of 26 Healthy Habits Part Three: Types of Workouts
In this information age, there are a million voices to be heard, but is anybody really listening? The amount of traffic our minds get really makes it difficult to slow down and pay attention to any information, and then what information should I listen too? I’ve been reviewing just such information touching on 26 habits [...]
We all desire flat abs
I am frequently asked, “How do I get a 6 pack?” Not where to buy beer but how to achieve nice, sculpted abs. The common misconception is that you need to do thousands of crunches per day. Well, you CAN do thousands of crunches per day, but if you don’t lose the layer of fat [...]
Eight reasons women should lift weights
Many women fear “getting big” from lifting weights and just stick with cardio. However, women do not have the testosterone levels that males do, making it virtually impossible to put on huge quantities of muscle. Large increases in muscle mass are due to: Lifting heavy weights with minimal repetitions (for example, bench press 100# 3 [...]
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