Scott Schwab:
I believe that we will need the help of Roxette today in introducing the topic. My goal today will be to talk about the value of listening to your body and letting that be your guide. There is no other organ that means so much and we should start tuning into some of the things that our hearts are telling us.
First of all it is essential to monitor your progress from a variety of ways. Exercising without accurately monitoring your intensity, is like driving a car without a speedometer. It poses uncertainty based on intensity level, working your body to hard, and questions of whether your regiment will hurt or help you in your health goals.
Life is full of questions of what is right, but when a person understands their body and the language that it is speaking to you; you are much more likely to be healthy and obtain accurate goals. We have spoken before about letting pain be your guide and finding what works best for you based on your body composition and enjoyment of exercise. You must push yourself for results to happen. Furthermore, it is imperative to find what works for you. We are all individuals and the exercise we do should be based around what makes us happy, what gives us a healthy challenge, and most importantly, what gives us results.
For this to happen we must listen to our heart and other muscles for making a plan. Muscle memory happens when our muscles get used to doing the same activity day in and day out, that there is not much room for growth and advancement. Muscle confusion is a principle that is pretty common today. Mixing your workouts up every 3-4 weeks to keep your muscles responding to increased needs and this will provide results more effectively. The heart is a muscle and the principles will still apply.
Strengthening the heart is contingent upon what we eat, the exercise we are involved in, and our health as it applies to our self worth. Speaking about eating and exercise, we have to get a handle on this now! Heart disease is something that is affecting all of us. A couple of alarming statistics that I found says that 250,000 women die of heart attacks per year as apposed to 40,000 who die from Breast cancer. 316,000 men die per year based on heart disease and heart attacks. As important as it is to get checked and protect your health with exams, it is increasingly more important to monitor your heart and protect it through a good diet and plenty of exercise.
Here is the link to the web page with information specific to women:
Here is a link to the web page with information specific for men:
The best way to strengthen our hearts, is to avoid the artery clogging foods, replace the fatty foods with fruits and vegetables. Do it because you choose life over death, and an active enjoyable lifestyle instead of a sedentary lifestyle. Choose to workout and exercise because you want to strengthen your heart and live a life free of disease and exhaustion. The more you exercise, the better your heart will work. A simple formula is this. If you workout and exercise regularly, your resting heart rate will be lower. The benefit is simply this; the less work
your heart has to do, the more energy, focus, and happiness you will have. The heart works harder then any muscle, so give it a break and do some exercising that is sure to reduce the work load.
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