Heart Disease Exercise, Exercise For Your Heart, Heart Attack Exercise

Keeping Excess Pounds at Bay while Increasing Your Heart’s Health

When you’re as old as I am, you pretty much would not think about gaining too much weight, unlike when you’re a bit younger. However, when packing on the pounds does not bode well for your heart’s health, which is when it became a problem.

I learned this the hard way. I was probably ten pounds or so overweight, I barely got any exercise and I didn’t religiously watch the food that I was eating. It was a particularly restful day, I wasn’t feeling emotionally stressed although I did have plenty to eat because I just came from a friend’s birthday celebration.

When I got home, I felt inexplicably tired. I sat down on the sofa, but later on slumped to the floor when I felt a sudden pain shoot through my chest. I was unconscious for what seemed like an eternity and when I woke up, I was already in the hospital.

I did not have to undergo heart surgery, but my doctor warned me that the next attack could be fatal. I didn’t want to ‘expire’ at what I still consider a young age, so I had to take drastic steps to improve my heart’s health.

First on the agenda was to lose weight. Naturally, any stressful physical activity that I think I had to do, I consulted with my doctor first. Fortunately, she agreed that moderate to vigorous exercise would still do me good – my heart could still take it – and it would help me shed off the excess unhealthy pounds that I gained over the years.

So what I did was to enrol in a weekly aerobics class, as part of my heart disease exercise. Next, I bought an elliptical trainer to use at home for when I didn’t feel like going out for a walk. I also threw out whatever junk food I had in my pantry and fridge, and exchanged everything for healthier, heart-friendly food items.

If I were a bit younger, I would have given myself a pat on the back seeing as how I lost five pounds or so during the first two weeks that I worked out - my heart disease exercise was going well. However, I am thankful this time, not because of having a leaner body, but because I knew that it would work wonders for my heart’s health.

Using the elliptical trainer and engaging in regular exercise would not just shed off the excess pounds that you have, but keep them off as well. Increasing your stamina, lowering your blood pressure, controlling your blood sugar, keeping your arteries clear – these and more are the multitude of benefits which my doctor said I would get from aerobics exercise.

Today, I feel ages younger. I tip the weighing scales more lightly, I feel great overall and I know that every day that I work out, my heart is regaining the strength that it lost during the attack.

If there’s one lesson that I learned, it’s none other than the fact that it’s never too late or too early to start changing your lifestyle. If you want to keep heart attack at bay, the best thing that you need to do is work on building your heart’s strength. As a bonus, you can also get rid of all the excess pounds that you have. What more can you ask for?

About the Author

Kurt M. Ontiveros writes for Ellipticalmachines.net a blog focused on his heart attack story to help people understand how and why they should train for prevention. He writes on Elliptical Trainers to help people train at home to prevent heart diseases.

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