Sunday, November 25, 2007

Free DVD to Strengthen Your Heart

There is a free DVD available with tips and exercises for heart-attack survivors, it's called Heartfelt for Life: Strengthening Your Heart. Although it was specifically designed for someone who has had a heart-attack, no doubt it will be a great motivator for someone who is very out of shape and feels like doing exercises will give them a heart-attack. :) Getting serious though, I found it very interesting that only 48% of heart-attack survivors do daily exercise. This was noted in a FitSmart article by Jorge Cruise, in the USA Weekend magazine, dated September 28-30, 2007. That's surprising, since you would think that a heart-attack would make you want to do anything, including exercise, to restore your health. Yet, it seems that people who did not exercise before the heart-attack, are afraid of pushing themselves too hard. The DVD, therefore, is an encouragement to start an exercise program, and does include instructions plus warning signs to watch out for while exercising.

The DVD is the creation of Bob Greene, an exercise physiologist, and Mehmet Oz, M.D., a professor of surgery at Columbia University in New York (you know, the health guys Oprah always has on her show). Bob Greene has suggested that walking is usually the most appropriate start for people who have not regularly exercised in the past. Now you know that is something we all can do - WALK -and it can be the beginning of a beautiful lifelong program of regular exercise, something our heart really does need.

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