Want to keep your heart healthy and your arteries unblocked? New research shows how much exercise you should do to maintain optimal health. Convenient, right?
This is the exact amount of exercise you should do to keep your arteries young and unobstructed. (Picture: twenty20 / @klebersmith) A new study determined that 2-3 times a week for 30 minutes is enough to maintain a medium-sized artery (an artery supplying oxygenated blood to the head) neck )young. People who exercise four times or more a week also retain the main artery - providing blood to the chest and abdomen - healthy. Basically, if you want to keep your heart young, plan to exercise at least four times per exercise.
"This work is really exciting because it allows us to develop an exercise program that keeps the heart young and can even restore the heart and blood vessels of the elderly," said one of the authors of the study. Benjamin explained. Levine, MD, founder and director of the Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine (IEEM) at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
The Southwestern Medical Center, a researcher at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and the University of Texas Institute of Sports and Environmental Medicine, recruited 102 people over the age of 60 who have been tracking their movements throughout their lives. habit. They also studied arterial stiffness in each participant, which is a key indicator of arterial health.
Then they divided their subjects into four groups according to the frequency of their exercise. There are people who are “sitting for a long time” (less than twice a week), “leisure exercisers” (two or three times a week), “firm exercisers” (four to five times a week) and "Master athletes" (they successfully completed an astonishing six to seven sports in a week). result? As mentioned above, exercising at least four times a week for 30 minutes is considered to be the best.
Most of us already know that the benefits of exercise extend to the outside. Not only does it enhance your mood, it also prevents a range of chronic health conditions, helps bones and muscles, and seriously improves cardiovascular health.
Of course, this study is flawed. It does not specify the type of exercise participants are involved in, but they calculate the "medium" intensity and above.And the sample of the participants is relatively small. However, these recommendations are not unrealistic and are very consistent with the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which indicates that adults exercise at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of moderate exercise or 1 hour and 15 minutes of exercise per week. Strenuous exercise. So yes, there is no excuse.
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