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Cathe Friedrich is largely responsible for my own long-term fitness successes. I’ve been doing her workouts for about 7-8 years and they are among the favorites in my collection. She’s always had a website but recently her blog has started to have more articles about exercise and health.
I wanted to share one today about weightlifting and heart health:
“Resistance is now integrated into cardiac rehab programs for people who have had a heart attack because of the benefits strength training has for the heart health and for overall well-being. For example, people who have heart failure often experience fatigue and muscle atrophy, which reduces their ability to get around and do the things most people do on a daily basis. Resistance training helps to rebuild some of the lost muscle so they’re more functional. Studies show that resistance training is safe even for people with heart failure, although it should only be done under supervision after medical clearance.”
Click here to read the full article on Cathe’s blog. There was also news today that she is coming out with a new low-impact set of workouts. Very tempting!
theheartrehab.wordpress.com 