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December 5, 2007 | Issue 145 |
Weight Lifting For Your Heart
In 2000, the American Heart Association (AHA) cautiously approved weight training, also known as resistance or strength training, for patients with heart disease. This summer, that approval was transformed into an enthusiastic endorsement, and the AHA’s new guidelines for resistance training, published in its journal Circulation*, mirror those taught at the Pritikin Longevity Center since 1990.
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“Just as we once learned that people with heart disease benefited from aerobic exercise, we are now learning that guided, moderate weight training also has significant benefits,” stated Mark Williams, PhD, chair of the AHA statement writing group, and professor at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.
“Resistance training not only enhances the benefits of aerobic fitness, but it appears to provide the added benefit of increased functional capacity and independence. It helps people better perform tasks of daily living – like lifting sacks of groceries.”
Adds Scott Danberg, MS, Director of Exercise at Pritikin, “Resistance training affects almost every physiological function and has the ability to enhance physical development and performance at all ages. It improves and maintains muscular strength, endurance, and power; it aids in weight control; and it increases and maintains coordination, agility, and balance. All these benefits can really help us, even in our later years, continue to do what we enjoy.”
Quick benefits
“Best of all,” says Danberg, “the results often start happening very quickly, and dramatically so, often within two to three months of beginning a program.”
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