Heart Disease

Evidence that physical activity protects against heart disease is dramatic. People who exercise on a regular basis have:

- Less heart attacks
- Less blockage of arteries, improved blood lipid [fat levels]
- Improved blood pressure
- Reduction in arteriosclerosis [hardening of the arteries
- Reduction in atherosclerosis [laying down of fat in the
  arteries
- Increased blood supply to the heart and increased output
  of blood from the heart
- Reduced risk of recurrence of heart attack
- Reduction of heart arrhythmias
- Reduction of the hearts oxygen demands at rest or during   exercise
- Improved feeling of well being
- Reduction in blood clots in the heart due to a reduced   stickiness of platelets in the blood stream

You will need to have been cleared by your doctor to participate in an exercise program. In communication with your health care provider and with his guidance of prescription of exercise intensity we can put together a program for you that will: