6 simple exercises to improve your heart health
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Loading... - Lenny Ortiz
- 28 Apr 2023
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Your heart is one of the hardest-working muscles in your body. It pumps about 100,000 times a day, pushing blood throughout the rest of your body. Just like your other muscles, your heart needs exercise to keep it strong. And if it’s injured or damaged, you need to build it up again, just like you do when you hurt a muscle in your arms or legs.
Fortunately, there are many simple exercises that make your heart stronger and build up strength throughout your body so that it’s easier for you to perform your normal daily activities. Here are some of the activities I recommend to my clients.
Strengthening exercises for whole body fitness
These exercises focus on improving body composition by building muscle and losing fat, which studies show will improve heart health and blood pressure, triglycerides, cholesterol and blood sugar regulation. This will, subsequently, drastically improve your heart health.
1. Squat
Though it primarily builds leg strength, the squat is one of the best exercises for building or maintaining overall strength I believe it is one of the most important exercises for one to do for overall health and longevity. This exercise will keep your legs and core strong, which will allow you be more physically capable of performing everyday activities. By being more physically capable of things in general, you will be able to keep moving and the more you move, the healthier your heart will be. Read More..
