Health is only one topic for this blog, yet I tend to bias towards it for personal reasons. Also I know quite a few people, some of them friends, who are also undergoing cardiac issues.
It is therefore appropriate to post cardio specific information even if of no interest to the majority of readers. In this case, I am well aware of the general teaching of this practice but never have the reasons been offered.Related articles
One of the most crucial parts of an exercise program for any heart patient is warm up
Working in cardiac rehabilitation this was often one of the biggest challenges I would encounter on a daily basis. Getting patients to understand and perform a warm up prior to starting into vigorous exercise. Often our lifestyle has so many time constraints that people just jump right into the vigorous activity and neglect this critical part of the exercise session.
What is a warm up?
Warm up is starting into activity slowly to allow your vessels in the heart and muscles throughout the body to dilate. This takes 5-10 minutes to accomplish. The easiest way of warming up is to start into your activity at the lightest possible level both in the form of resistance and in the form of intensity or speed. Others will do slow walking or light calisthenics. Stretching is not…
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