The best exercises to boost your Heart Health

Having a healthy heart and strengthening it is one of the best things we can do for our heart health. And the best way to strengthen is via exercising.

Although exercising regularly helps in losing weight and building muscles. But exercises done in a continuation of 10 minutes and more are the best kind of exercises for a healthy heart.

Cardio exercises also known as Aerobic exercises are known to be the best workout for good heart health. These exercises use repetitive contradiction of large muscle groups and get your heart beating faster, leading to increased circulation, helping lower blood pressure, and controlling your blood glucose and other heart-related issues.

Some of the best Aerobic exercises are running, walking, swimming, playing a sport, jogging, and cycling. While doing these exercises your whole body moves at a fast pace, therefore, raising your heart rate which makes you breathe harder.

The doctor suggests doing at least 150 minutes of cardio exercise per week.

Although one can always opt for alternate exercising options other than just Cardio, as there is no ‘magic bullet’ for exercise, the important thing is to do it.

Some alternative exercising options are:

Weight Training

Also called resistance training or strength training, these exercises use resistance to muscular contradiction which builds strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of skeletal muscles. These exercises also burn your fat and build your body muscle thus, helping your heart.

The most effective weight training happens when your body weight is used for exercising but the majority of people hit the gym to train weights which is also a good option.

Exercises like push-ups, squats, and pull-ups are good weight training exercises that help build muscles and contribute to bone and heart health.

Yoga

Yoga is great for the heart as it helps to strengthen and tone your muscles. It also makes your body flexible, helps you learn balance, and makes your whole body stretch which benefits your musculoskeletal health.

This helps in removing joint pain, cramping, and other muscular issues. The flexibility helps you do aerobic exercises and resistance training, which indirectly affects your heart health.

Certain types of yoga can also get your heart rate up and help you relax which helps in lowering blood pressure.

Interval Training

These are known as high-intensity workouts or HIIT, which forces your heart to alternate between working hard and recovering, and doing the same set of exercises multiple times in a single workout helps your heart become efficient.

HIIT just not impacts your heart but also affects bone density which helps to strengthen and lower the risk for osteoporosis and other bone-related problems by improving bone density.

Burpees, jumping jacks, squat jumps, froggy jumps, side-to-side jumping Lunges, long jumps, and jumping ropes are some of the best interval training exercises.

Core Workouts

These workouts don’t directly improve your heart directly but help your heart in a few different ways. Without a strong core, you are likely to develop pain in your body such as back, hips, and knees. So, keeping your core strength will help you avoid injuries and pain which will help you exercise longer and keep your heart happy.

Core exercises also help with balance and help you lose fat which also indirectly helps your heart.