Heart Healthy Exercise Activities

8 Exercise Activities for Busy People

An exercise program should involve activities that get your heart thumping and your blood pumping. Exercise makes the heart beat faster and circulates blood quickly thru your body. Exercise helps to deliver the needed oxygen to your muscles.

A great exercise program should significantly increase this blood flow for extended periods of time, thus building your cardiovascular endurance and over all physical fitness. A good aerobic exercise regime may include activities such as walking, jogging, bicycling, aerobics, stair climbing, swimming, roller skating – basically any type of physical activity that is repetitive and challenges your heart, muscles, and circulatory system

If you are one of those people with a busy schedule and unable to commit to an exercise program, you can count in these activities as part of your weekly exercise routine. Exercise is very important in keeping you fit and healthy.

• If you have a dog, walking is a great exercise –do it daily and count it in. It’s good for you and your pet.
• Housework is nobody’s favorite activity but believe it or not, count this as exercise especially if you vacuum briskly or mop the floors on a regular basis
• If you have a family, schedule walks after dinner or before lunch and get some quality time in, too.
• Take a few minutes of your break-time to take a walk around the block or around the campus. Or if you go out to lunch, consider walking to a park or a sandwich shop a block or two further away rather than the cafeteria or the closest lunch stop.
• Believe it or not, yard work is a great way to get some exercise in. Mowing the lawn, raking leaves, clipping bushes and pulling weeds is a great way to move those muscles and get some great exercise in.
• Elevators and escalators at the office, school and even the mall makes life convenient – but if you take just one flight of stairs instead of using this convenience, it’s definitely considered exercise – try it. Start with just one flight and soon you’ll be ready for more.
• If you ride the bus or subway, get off at one stop before or after your destination and walk the rest of the way – an easy way to fit a short jaunt into the schedule.
• Parking – we all want the front row but consider parking your car at the far end of the parking lot. A short walk here and there adds up, plus it can reduce the stress we sometimes feel when fighting for the front row spots
  

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