ANGINA: THE BEST EXERCISE TO START WITH WALK
The best exercise to start with is simply to walk. This is the exercise that benefits your health with the least fuss. Whatever your age and occupation, you can “take our hearts for a walk.” You don’t have to walk far or fast to begin with. The initial aim is to walk for up to twenty minutes three times a week.
You can do it by walking to work or the shops, or walk, rather than drive, to the train station. Don’t make yourself suffer in bad weather; you won’t keep it up, and it may put you off the idea of walking. If you normally catch a bus, get off a stop or two before your own stop, and walk the rest of the way. If you have a dog, take it for a walk yourself, rather than telling the children to do so. Walk on weekends, with the family, to the park, or on a trail.
Whenever you can, climb stairs rather than use the elevator. Walk, rather than drive, to any destination within a mile of your home. Even throw away the remote control of your television set, so that you have to get up to change the program! Do things, rather than watch television, in your spare time. If you do stay at home, try gardening or doing the odd jobs needed around the house.
If you feel you can’t keep up your new activities, recognize that it’s always easier to start something new than to keep it going. That is why you must choose an activity that you like, then start it gently and increase it slowly. Don’t despair if you backslide on a particular exercise. Start again, and keep on starting, because your heart will benefit every time that you do.
Once you have started on the exercise program, you will soon begin to feel better. You will be carrying less weight around, which will be less work for your heart for the same exercise—the demand side of that supply-demand equation is getting better. Your heart and muscles will be working more efficiently with the training, and your circulation will be improving. So where do you go from here?
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