A study by the Center for Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinic Valmont-Genolier in Glion (Switzerland) has concluded that physical exercise in a planned way can improve the flow of blood after a heart attack.
The study found that any kind of exercise was very useful in correcting vascular dysfunction in patients who had suffered a heart attack, no difference was found between resistance training, aerobics or in combination.
But the improvement in blood flow observed in the 209 survivors who participated in the study, was lost after four weeks of the cessation of exercise. This proves that this kind of patients should be kept in a constant training program to maintain vascular benefits.
Exercises for the heart of the test participants were randomly assigned to aerobic exercises, resistance exercises and a combination of aerobic and resistance training.
Those who did aerobic exercise had four sessions a week, which included a ten-minute warm-up, forty minutes of cycling, which increased the heart rate to 75 percent of the maximum and ten minutes of cooling.
Resistance exercises included four sessions a week to ten exercises with weights and rubber bands, which lasted from 45 to 60 seconds with rest intervals of 15 to 30 seconds.
According to Dr. Johnny Lee, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, “If this applies to the sickest patients, that if you lose the benefit for shows that continue to exercise can only a positive effect if you are a normal subject without heart disease. ”
Reason enough to consider seriously and responsibly the start a fitness program that includes at least 2 to 3 sessions per week.
