Improve your Heart's Health


Aerobic exercise is a heart healthy way of improving and extending your life. Aerobics is an exercise that elevates your heart rate to a point that utilizes 70 to 80 percent of the capabilities of the heart. It moves oxygen though the blood steam and into the organs and muscles that improves endurance, reduces body fat and increases the health of the body.

There are a countess number of aerobic moves that can be used and many more can be made up based on individual preference. Essentially, whatever raises the heart rate to the appropriate level and is sustained for a minimum of twelve minutes will do it; however below are some popular aerobic moves to get you started.

A few aerobic moves that will slowly raise your heart rate and begin to build energy includes: walking, marching or jogging in place, lunges and jumping jacks. Begin slowly and increase the speed as well as the stretch and work of the muscles throughout the warm up phase of your workout.