Let exercise by thy medicine and medicine be thy exercise!

Exercise is the best Medicine!

AVOIDABLE - Avoiding heart disease may be as easy as a couple of days at the gym each week. Exercise improves the condition of your heart. Your heart is a muscle just like any other and in order for it to become strong it must be worked. If you fail to work it, it will weaken over time and this can cause a variety of negative health effects like stroke and high blood pressure. By getting the heart pumping at a faster rate on a regular basis you will keep it in shape and healthy. Too many people are getting winded just performing simple exercises such as walking up the stairs and the main reason for this is because they are neglecting to work their heart muscle.

CARDIO - Getting winded just walking up the stairs is also a sign that your lungs could do with some exercise as well! One of the best ways to exercise your heart and lungs is to do cardiovascular exercise which, depending on your current fitness level, could be anything from walking to jogging to a session on the crosstrainer at the gym. By increasing your lung capacity, your body is naturally getting more oxygen and you’re also decreasing the stress on your heart.

BLOOD PRESSURE - Exercise is also a natural remedy for hypertension or high blood pressure. By exercising your heart and making it stronger, it can pump more blood with less effort - the force on your arteries decreases, which lowers your blood pressure. Becoming more active can lower your systolic blood pressure by an average of 4 to 9 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) which is as good as some blood pressure medications.

If your blood pressure is good, exercise can help prevent it from rising as you get older. Regular exercise also helps you maintain a healthy weight — another important way to control blood pressure. But to keep your blood pressure low, you need to keep exercising on a regular basis. It takes about one to three months for regular exercise to have an impact on your blood pressure and the benefits last only as long as you continue to exercise.

We have a great team at Anytime Fitness Mandurah that can help you find the right exercise plan for your level of fitness, even if you have high blood pressure or COPD.

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