EXERCISE TO KEEP YOUR HEART HEALTHY

 

Exercise to keep your heart healthy

Exercise to keep your heart healthy

 What is Exercise? Exercise is a body activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. Exercise is done for various reasons, to aid growth and improve strength, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, hone athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, and improve health. 

Cardiac health is a growing concern nowadays. Not only elderly people but even young people aged 30-40 are facing cardiac problems. Imbalance and block in our energy and blood vessels or even our hectic lifestyle, stress. And wrong habits are leading to a negative impact on our hearts.

  Simple and effective morning routines to keep cardiac problems away.

1. First Start with simple stretches in bed. with one leg, lying down in the Dhradasana position on the side, and lifting a leg up and down 10 times.  Abdominal breathing. These techniques will improve your bowel movement. And the peristalsis movement would be much better, as well as relax all muscles and above all, it will enhance circulation to the heart region.
2. Take some warm water, after doing these stretches. This will help improve your digestion, elevate acidity and prevent any gastric exertion on your heart. To increase the advantage of warm water, squeeze one lemon and add a teaspoonful of honey to it.
3. Meditate Once you have a glass of warm water, sitting in a quiet corner, meditate. Just close your eyes for a few minutes and focus on your breath. This will help you to be focused on the present moment and let go of all your negative feelings, anxiety, and tension. Stress is the major cause of all cardiac problems and here is meditation, which is going to help you release the stress, tension, and anxiety.
4.  In the morning eat dry fruits and nuts. To energize your body after a long fast at night, eat some nuts that are extremely healthy for the heart. Eat five almonds soaked overnight. Remove the skin and chew them nicely. Eat a date, one apricot, and one walnut.
5. Walking. Once you feel energized after having nuts and dry fruits go for 20 to 30 minutes of walking. Walk at a comfortable pace don't rush yourself. If you can't go out for a walk in your own house, in rooms, take rounds but see that it is walking time. 
6. Walk systematically. Enjoy your walk and once in a while, stand and breathe deeply. If you feel breathless, take a pause and sit down. Sit quietly till the breathlessness goes away, then again walk. Walking is a very good cardio exercise. It can improve your cardiorespiratory function and fitness.
7.  Relax after your walk. Just lie down in Shavasana and relax. Close your eyes for ten minutes and focus on different parts of your body and see that every part is relaxed. Practicing Shavasana regularly will help you to remain calm and composed in your mind throughout the day. Your body also will be prepared to handle the stress of the day very easily.
8.  Eat a heart-healthy breakfast. Now, after all these activities, have a healthy breakfast to boost your stamina and energy and this would definitely help in a healthy heart. In breakfast, Omega three fatty acids, if you take that, would promote your heart health. 

It would help lower your blood pressure, Triglyceride, blood clotting, and the risk of strokes and even heart failure. Flaxseeds are rich in Omega three fatty acids. Having one to two tablespoons of flax seed in your morning breakfast, either eating directly or mixing with your porridge would help tremendously.

In the morning breakfast along with the nuts, try and eat something like poha or upma or porridge, maybe oatmeal or anything out of this but mixes one to two tablespoons of flax seeds in any of these things and have it, this would definitely prevent heart problems, even heart attacks. Along with morning heart-healthy routines, stay away from certain things, which will indirectly harm your body. 

In the morning rushing to take bath and go to work avoid. If you have to rush to work, then don't take bath in the morning take bath in the evening. Taking bath in the morning and rushing to work will not help. After the bath, a person is supposed to rest for 15-20 minutes and then go to work.

 So if this is not possible, you are in a hurry, better take bath in the evening. Engage your mind and focus on positive things, positive thoughts will help change your mind. Yoga believes that the root cause of all diseases lies in the mind and then it manifests in the

body. One should start focusing on good things; bad things will become insignificant for you.

Try all these things and be healthy and all the best as you practice healthy living. 

Exercise to keep your heart healthy.

 Simple and effective morning routines to keep cardiac problems away.