Research on exercise
and a healthy heart

How much and what kind of exercise is needed

New research exercise healthy heart in cardiac patients reveals some very important information on the role of exercise for heart health. The main findings are presented below, following links to related pages right below.

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Relieving stress and exercise A new study from the Department of Cardiology in New Orleans, published in the American Journal of Medicine details how much simple changes can increase life expectancy.

The study followed 522 heart patients. Patients were on a program of 12 weeks of exercise, including 10 minutes of warm-up, 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise like walking, rowing or jogging, followed by a 10-minute stretch to cool down.

Here are the eye popping results. Only 30 minutes of moderate exercise like jogging, fast paced walking or jogging, three times weekly, is needed for heart patients to significantly improve heart health.

That’s it! No daily, routines, or long sessions or intense interval sessions. Sure, Healthy Exercise has pointed to the benefits of more intense sessions for superior health. Hey, if you have time, energy and motivation, well, go for it. But for adequate heart health, not very much is needed.

The study also found that workouts were especially helpful for patients with high stress levels. Certainly, high stress levels have been linked to poor heart health in many studies.

The study demonstrated that even mild exercise has psychological as well as physical benefits. For more on this, visit our page on relieving stress and exercise

Another interesting finding from the study was that subjects did not lose weight. So simple weight loss was not involved in improvement in health. The only real factor to boost health was exercise.

It is not surprising that a couple of hours of moderate exercise per week, engaged in by middle aged to older people, did not produce weight loss. It takes a little more exertion for weight loss.

However, if heart patients can also lose some excess weight, either through more vigorous exercise and/or diet, we could guess that benefits would be even greater.

For more on this, visit our page on weightloss exercisesSo, if you haven’t been exercising because of complaints that it takes too much work and time and you are not well enough, well, the study cited above tends to remove the preceding convenient excuses.

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