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November 7, 2005
How to Recondition Your Heart and Lungs With Correct Exercise
First, you need to forget most of what you've heard about "cardio" exercise. Many experts falsely believe that to strengthen your heart you must spend hours in the gym each week, pounding out the miles on the treadmill or spinning your wheels on an exercise bike. This classic cardiovascular exercise prescription doesn’t work to strengthen your heart, and it causes other problems.
You can transform your heart health following a different approach that takes as little as 10 minutes a day. The rationale behind this different approach to exercise is explained in Chapter 2 my book The Doctor’s Heart Cure, In this and upcoming blogs I am going to provide you with a step-by-step plan to put The Doctor’s Heart Cure exercise program into action.
Hundreds of patients at the Center for Health and Wellness have helped develop this uniquely effective fitness program while building their heart capacity and functional strength. If they can do it, you can, too. And in a few short weeks, you’ll begin to see and feel the results.
My program, Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion or PACE – will gradually challenge your heart, lungs, and blood vessels to build their strength. (“Cardio” means heart and “pulmonary” means lungs.) To accomplish this, you will do a series of short bursts of exercise with periods of rest in between. As you get used to these brief challenges you will gradually increase their intensity.
Here is the first key concept to keep in mind as you proceed:
Progressively means doing a little bit more this week than you did the week before. Pushing just a little bit harder with each exercise session causes your level of fitness to improve over time. You can add resistance or pick up the pace. Gradually increasing the magnitude of the challenge (rather than the length of the challenge) will coach your body into building greater heart and lung capacity to meet any unexpected challenges you may encounter.
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Posted by james at November 7, 2005 6:38 AM