Whole Body Weight Training Can Help Your Heart

Have heart problems? Start lifting some weights
while doing your rebounding or whole body vibration.

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While conventional wisdom once held that people with
heart disease should not exercise or weight train,
a new scientific statement from the American Heart
Association says some resistance training can be
good.

"Just like we once learned that people with heart
disease benefited from aerobic exercise, we are now
learning that guided, moderate weight training also
has significant benefits," said Mark Williams,
professor of medicine at Creighton University School
of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.

Weight training is seen as a complement to aerobic
exercise, not a replacement, he said. But it provides
everyday benefits.

"It helps people better perform tasks of daily
living -- like lifting sacks of groceries," Williams
said in a statement.

Resistance or static attraction whole body vibration
training is not recommended for all people.

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Recommendations for an initial static attraction
whole body vibration weight program and resistance
training should be performed:

* in a rhythmical manner at a moderate-to-slow
controlled speed;

* through a full range of motion, avoiding
breath-holding and straining by exhaling during
the contraction or exertion phase of the lift
and inhaling during the relaxation phase;

* alternating between upper and lower body work,
to allow for adequate rest between exercises.

Weight lifters have traditionally focused on training
that involves three sets of repetitions but the Heart
Association said single sets provide nearly the same
improvement in muscular strength at first.

And they are easier to stick to.

"For people with cardiovascular disease, the level
of resistance should be reduced and number of
repetitions increased, resulting in a lower relative
effort and reducing the likelihood of breath-holding
and straining," the statement reads.

The heart benefits of weight training include
increased muscle mass which can help in weight
control.

"Patients who have had cardiac events are often
apprehensive about returning to this type of activity,
or doing things in their daily lives that might be
perceived as strenuous ... Now we know that they can
return to the active things they enjoy doing,"
Williams said.

"I love whole body vibrational exercise and I do it
every day after my 3 mile run," said Dr. Robert O.
Young.

For more information on static attraction weight
training read, The pH Miracle for Weight Loss, by
Dr. Robert and Shelley Young.

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For more information about whole body vibrational
exercising go to:

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Copyright © 2007 by Robert O. Young, Ph.D.