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Heart health - the final part of the puzzle
So far we've looked at a few things that can help with heart health, for various reasons:
- cardio exercise - strengthens the heart and lungs
- strength exercise - lowers blood pressure
- Pilates/yoga/mobility - reducing stiffness in the upper body, which will reduce arterial stiffness
The final part to consider is - relaxation, stress management and sleep
Insomnia at midlife can raise a woman's risk of a heart attack by 70%
Exercising can help with stress reduction, relaxation and sleep - j…
Upper body mobility sequence
A few upper body moves you can easily fit into your day - even while sat at your desk!
Tightness in the upper body can affect your posture, ability to reach, create pain in the jaw, neck, shoulders and low back, contribute to pelvic floor dysfunction and can even affect your heart!
So getting more movement in is key - how many ways can you move your ribs?
Can squats help your heart?
Or can strength training help too?
Healthy Hearts - and how to get them
February is Heart Month, so I've been focusing a little bit on cardiovascular exercise recently
Cardio exercise - exercise that makes your heart rate go up - is one of a few ways to improve your heart health. Other factors you can look at:
- regular exercise - not just cardio
- healthy diet
- healthy weight
- quit smoking
- limit alcohol intake
- manage stress
- prioritise sleep
- move more often - not just exercise but throughout your day
- stay hydrated
The thing I love about exercise is that it…
Low Impact Aerobics
Great for getting your heart and lungs working in a fun way!
Leg warmers optional!
Keeping going when the pain is no longer there
Our health is one of those weird things that we don't really think about until something isn't working properly or we are in pain
I think why I didn't enjoy pregnancy the first time round was because I expected things to work/feel as they always did, and that definitely wasn't true anymore! It's also why peri-menopause is a challenge...
I certainly never considered my pelvic floor until after having my first baby/prolapse
And when I injured my back, the constant pain impacted everything I di…
Preventing injury vs recovering from injury
After the tale of my thumb injury in last week's email it turns out I am, as my family would say, in the wars
We went for a little wander last week before school started again
I went to cross the road and stepped off the kerb - not realising it was a double kerb
So my foot landed too heavy too soon, my ankle gave way and I fell onto both knees into the road
Luckily it was a Sunday and there was no traffic!
But I hurt my ankles, knees and feet - and my pride!
I was worried that it would ham…
What Counts as Exercise?
Did you start your health goals this week?
For me it was lovely to start easy with Aerobics on Wednesday and then just a few classes
I did have to start even easier than I thought I would have to though...
We had a fun New Years Day - going in to Manchester to go bowling
I was very happy to win our first game and get the highest score I've ever had!
We also did a bit of ping pong and karaoke
As we were leaving we spotted a punching ball test your strength so decided to have one last chal…
Hypopressives for anxiety - Annmarie's story
I started to suffer with anxiety and obviously that brings in struggling to breathe sometimes and then panic attacks and that kind of thing.
I was also struggling with putting weight on and was mindful that I needed to do some exercise - I wanted to lose weight but also had anxiety going on.
I felt like all the other kind of exercise that I did - swimming, joining the gym, walking - they just never hit the anxiety.
So I would do them and never feel relaxed or feel calm. And then I would go t…
I got trolled
I've been posting a lot on Facebook recently as I'm trying to raise my profile a bit
And it's obviously working as I'm reaching more people
But with that come people who aren't really a good fit for what I do
This meant that last week I got trolled on one of my videos
It was just a simple video - showing hip circles as a way to ease out your back and hips after sitting for a while
So nothing massively fitness about it and nothing controversial
But this bloke said that if I lost some fat t…
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