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5 Heart Healthy Exercises

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Easy forms of exercise to get you and your heart into shape.

As Heart Month continues on, so do our aspirations to keep your hearts healthy, PGX’ers! As we discussed earlier this month, being active and committing to regular cardiovascular workouts can help improve your heart health. However, getting going on a regular exercise routine can be a bit daunting if you don’t know where to start.

Fortunately, improving your heart health doesn’t require you to become an Olympic athlete; all it takes is some moderate exercise and the commitment to not give up! If you’re unsure of where to start in order to improve your heart health, below are five easy exercises you can do to keep your heart healthy.

Top 5 Heart Healthy Exercises

  1. Intensive walking
  2. Jogging or running
  3. Swimming
  4. Biking
  5. Circuit training

PGX Tip: Allow your body to recover post-workout by replenishing your energy with a PGX protein shake.

Stay healthy, PGX’ers!

 

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Wear Red Day

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Support Heart Month and women’s heart health by wearing red today.

Today is National Wear Red Day in the United States and we want to help spread the word on how you can support the movement! By wearing red today, you’ll be helping raise awareness of heart disease, which is the number one killer of women.

Learn more about heart disease and how you can help create survivors by watching the video below and visiting the Go Red for Women website.

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Exercise & Heart #Health

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How exercise can help support your heart health.

This February, we are focusing on Heart Month in more ways than one: with healthy eating (read our latest Heart Health Tasty Tuesday recipe) and healthy habits, such as exercising regularly.

We all know that being active is a part of a healthy lifestyle. But did you know that regular aerobic exercise can strengthen your heart and cardiovascular system and improve heart failure symptoms?

Aerobic exercise can be as simple as taking a 30 minute walk or jog, or as complex as hitting the gym and engaging in multiple exercises, such as jumping rope, using the stationary bike and the rowing machine. No matter which exercises you decide to do, however, it’s important that you commit to doing them at least three times a week in order to reap the maximum health benefits.

If you’re just getting started, try taking your dog for a walk or ask a friend to go on a leisurely bike ride with you. It’s best to begin slowly and increase the level of difficultly and the length of the exercise as you go along; this will prevent feelings of frustration and you’ll be more likely to stick with your new routine!

PGX Tip: Try fuelling up with a PGX protein shake before you begin your exercise.

 

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