Another Anywhere Exercise-HealthyHeart Cardio Style
Roy and Heidi Mercer’s HealthyHeart Shopping
This combination of moves may bring unwanted attention at the bus stop, but it is a workout exercise that will definately get the heart pumping. It requires no special exercise equipment, can be done in public if we are not shy people and do not mind a bit of attention, and it also may be done to music, if… like me, you enjoy dancing.
Position is important, there may be a balance issue. We stand with our feet apart, a bit wider than our shoulders. Next we bring our arms up— level with our shoulders and we bend our arms at the elbow (90 degree angle) with our hands in the air. Be careful with this exercise during football season, we now look much like a goal post and some grandkids may see this as an opportunity to practice kicking. At the bus stop it may be mistaken for a robbery…you can guess the rest. Now the movement.
Please remember that I am not a health professional, I simply have heart disease and I am sharing my experience and the tools I use to get better. This or any other exercise should be approved by your personal health professional.
Bring the left (or right if preferred) knee up as high as possible and bring the left elbow down to touch the knee. Repeat this 10 times and switch to the other knee…that is right …raise this knee as high as possible and bring the elbow down to meet it. Repeat until the target heart rate is met, and we continue these moves for the time we have chosen to use this exercise in our routine.
My daily routine is to be a minimum 30 minutes. This can be split into three sessions of 10 minutes if I need to meet my boss’s schedule, which I only need to do if I want to work for him. As long as he continues to write a paycheck two times per month, he controls my schedule on work days.
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