Your Best Muscle - The Heart

The Heart Muscle

We see many bodybuilders and athletes with big muscles and toned bodies.  We can see the muscles on the outside but the most important muscle we have is on the inside.  Our hearts work non stop, when our chest, legs, back, and arms get rest, the heart continues pumping around the clock.

We can see the results when we lift weights or do exercises that our bodies become more muscular and toned, but how do we know how are hearts are doing.  Exercise both aerobic, think running or walking, and anaerobic, think weights and pushups or situps is excellent for the heart.  Movement is key to improving our heart function, our circulation, and our overall cardiovascular health.

Just walking, jogging, running, or jalking a combination of jogging and intermittently walking.  One of my favorite exercise is jumping rope.  I've been jumping for 30 years and it's an easy, low impact, convenient, and inexpensive way to stay healthy.  With a $5 rope you can practically jump anywhere the patio, driveway, basement, garage, even the foyer, the rope easily travels with you.  Jumping is also a great way to activate the lymphatic system, the lymph nodes help clean the body of toxins.

Now we know that exercise is excellent for our most important muscle, the heart. 

To Your Health,

Coach K
Tom Kaufmann