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Medical Forum / General / Cardiology / March 2007Time efective exercise optioms?
As from my other posts its very apparent to me I need to start serious exercise program I'm curious what others are doing? Do you exercise indoors on machine such as recumbent exercise bikes, treadmills, rowing machines? Or do you prefer to always exercise outside? I live in north Missouri where weather can be a HUGE factor in whether or not its possible to exercise outside. Many times It just not possible so therefore am considering some kind of indoor exercise equipment investment > As from my other posts its very apparent to me I need > to start serious exercise program [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > considering some kind of indoor exercise equipment > investment I park my car far from my objective. Use steps and carry things about not asking for help. Clean my house and weed and till my garden. Sometimes I stand still for 1/2 and hour this after 1/2 hour of Tai Chi and sword play. The latter takes years to understand still I know what CABG is. NO machines nothing to buy just move be it dance or whatever. Something that you are attracted too. Dance by the way can be social and therefore incentive to carry on. My son Erik is a physical trainer who eschews weights and stuff in favor of simple body work. Bill  SignatureS Jersey USA Zone 5 Shade http://www.ocutech.com/ High tech Vison aid This article is posted under fair use rules in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and is strictly for the educational and informative purposes. This material is distributed without profit. William Wagner <not-to-here-williamwag@gmail.com> wrote: > I park my car far from my objective. Use steps and carry things about >not asking for help. Clean my house and weed and till my garden. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > My son Erik is a physical trainer who eschews weights and stuff in >favor of simple body work. agree with all you say and in fact PREFER such ways to get exercise but again weather in north Missouri can preclude such methods > As from my other posts its very apparent to me I need > to start serious exercise program > > I'm curious what others are doing? Check out this website. http://home.earthlink.net/~fitness_habit/ > Do you exercise indoors on machine such as recumbent > exercise bikes, treadmills, rowing machines? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > considering some kind of indoor exercise equipment > investment > As from my other posts its very apparent to me I need > to start serious exercise program [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > considering some kind of indoor exercise equipment > investment A jump rope could provide a very intense workout indoors. You could also run in place indoors. Use a small stepper, or step on a chair etc. and avoid any equipment purchase. I would start VERY slowly if I was starting from being totally sedentary. I have always walked & take the stairs (even if my car is parked on the highest level of the parking garage - level 6 which it often is etc.). I go to a gym and sometimes walk. At the gym I mainly use a treadmill + elliptical machine and rower. I do some weight training. I like the treadmill and elliptical because they are time efficient - by adjusting the grade you can make the workout quite intense on the treadmill and by adjusting resistance likewise on the elliptical. On a bike since it is not weight bearing it is hard to burn as many calories so you need to increase the time. In general the feeling is you need to burn about 1200 calories a week to prevent heart disease, 1500 calories to hold it in place and >2100 for any hopes of regression. Greater benefits are seen with levels upto about 4500-5000 calories a week. I would join a gym and see what equipment you like before spending money on any equipment. A lot of exercise equipment has big footprints so you have to be able to fit it in. Good quality (say gym quality) equipment is also very expensive. Roland > In general the feeling is you need to burn about 1200 calories a week to > prevent heart disease, 1500 calories to hold it in place and >2100 for > any hopes of regression. Greater benefits are seen with levels upto > about 4500-5000 calories a week. Seems way to linear and easy to me. Any citations in time? I think of fasting for some reason. But you did say feeling which does not drive me crazy but the topic requires perhaps more. Bill SignatureS Jersey USA Zone 5 Shade http://www.ocutech.com/ High tech Vison aid This article is posted under fair use rules in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and is strictly for the educational and informative purposes. This material is distributed without profit. In article <not-to-here-williamwag-49E91D.18483622032007@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews .net>, > > In general the feeling is you need to burn about 1200 calories a week to > > prevent heart disease, 1500 calories to hold it in place and >2100 for [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Bill This is based on the Heidelberg Regression study done by Hambrecht and co-workers (he is a big gun in exercise and CVD). The abstract of the original study can be found here: http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/2/468 Some of the material on rational approach to exercise therapy is covered in these reviews: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/174/7/961 http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/174/6/801 Roland > In article > <not-to-here-williamwag-49E91D.18483622032007@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Roland I've found the bottom two sites useful if you want to find an exercise program but I seem to go for things of interest not calories expended. The first with the big gun is a study with 80 people. Jim??? No wonder I never heard of it or him. Still I feel it makes sense to move and the more the better. How we move then becomes of import. With grace or with violence. One may go for along time and another end with a blown out knee. Decisions based on our cultural norms or just getting ready combat a constant decision biased by heart disorder here. Bill Bill SignatureS Jersey USA Zone 5 Shade http://www.ocutech.com/ High tech Vison aid This article is posted under fair use rules in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and is strictly for the educational and informative purposes. This material is distributed without profit. > In article > <not-to-here-williamwag-49E91D.18483622032007@sn-indi.vsrv-sjc.supernews [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > Roland While looking about for Hambrecht and Exercise I found this study. Bill ...................... 1: Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2005 Apr;12(2):126-31. Links Associations between estimated aerobic fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in adults with different levels of abdominal obesity. € Borodulin K, Laatikainen T, Lahti-Koski M, Lakka TA, Laukkanen R, Sarna S, Jousilahti P. National Public Health Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Helsinki, Finland. katja.borodulin@ktl.fi BACKGROUND: We investigated the association between estimated aerobic fitness and cardiovascular risk factors, and how the association is affected by abdominal obesity. DESIGN: Cross-sectional population study. METHODS: Participants comprised 3820 adults aged 25 to 64 years from the FINRISK 2002 Study in Finland. Aerobic fitness was estimated using a non-exercise test. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides, HDL-C to total cholesterol ratio, and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels were measured by standardized methods. RESULTS: After controlling for age, smoking and alcohol consumption, aerobic fitness was inversely associated with systolic (P=0.027) and diastolic (P<0.001) blood pressure, total cholesterol (P=0.009), triglycerides (P=0.001), and GGT (P<0.001), and directly associated with HDL-C (P<0.001) and HDL-C to total cholesterol ratio (P<0.001) in men. In women, inverse associations were found for diastolic blood pressure (P=0.027) and triglycerides (P<0.001), and direct association for HDL-C (P<0.001) and HDL-C to total cholesterol ratio (P<0.001). Waist-to-hip ratio was independently associated with a better risk factor profile in both sexes. Interactions were found between fitness and WHR in relation to total cholesterol (P=0.001), HDL-C to total cholesterol ratio (P=0.005), triglycerides (P=0.001), and systolic (P=0.009) and diastolic (P<0.001) blood pressure among men only. CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that good estimated aerobic fitness is associated with a better cardiovascular risk factor profile, regardless of the level of abdominal obesity in Finnish men and women. Men in the highest WHR third seem to have more benefit of aerobic fitness on their cardiovascular risk levels than men with lower WHR. SignatureS Jersey USA Zone 5 Shade http://www.ocutech.com/ High tech Vison aid This article is posted under fair use rules in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and is strictly for the educational and informative purposes. This material is distributed without profit. me wrote: >do you prefer to always exercise outside? I prefer it when weather permits. But, since I spend 30-60 min a day watching tv news anyway, I spend that time on a treadmill (two birds, one stone sorta thing). I don't limit my excecise to that though. That'd be a minimum. Port |
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