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Heart Attack Survivors Should Avoid Excessive Exercising

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People who suffered a heart attack should be careful when exercising. We tend to think that there is almost never enough time spent doing physical exercises. However, new research shows that heart attack survivors have to pay extra attention when scheduling their exercises.

Regularly, doctors recommend exercises for everybody. Those who suffered a stroke, must not engage in exercising for more than half an hour, because it might hurt them more than doing good.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory life sciences researcher Paul T. Williams and Paul D. Thompson, cardiologist at Hartford Hospital, CT, conducted a study on the matter. The conclusion is that for heart attack survivors, more than 30 miles of running per week is detrimental to their health.

Doctors recommend running for everybody. Another recent study confirmed the benefits accrued through this specific type of exercise. Even five minutes of running per day may add three years to your lifespan.

Heart attack survivors should run a maximum of around 40 miles per week

More than 2300 people were investigated to reach the conclusion. They all suffered heart attacks when they registered to National Runners’ and Walkers’ Health Study. In average, each of the subjects was followed up for 10.4 years. Those who ran between 30 and 46 miles per week had progressively decreased their chances of suffering a similar attack again by 70 percent compared to those who did not run or walked at all.

Heart attack survivors must avoid over exercising

In the cases of the subjects who ran for more than 46 miles per week, the risks of suffering another heart attack were similar to those who did not run at all. In total, the excessive runners faced a 2.6 times higher risk of dying from a cardiovascular disease, compared with those who ran less.

Specifically talking about heart attack survivors, “the results are surprising,” said Williams. “Our previous research has shown that heart disease risk factors and the risk for nonfatal heart attacks improved with greater running distance through at least 40 miles per week, with no indication that things got worst at higher mileages. Like other medical treatments, there appears to be a level that can be excessive.”

The authors underlined that the results do not apply to patients who suffered other traumas or diseases or to healthy persons. In the end, they advise heart attack survivors to exercise moderately twice a week and avoid daily high-intensity exercises.

Running Increases Lifespan, improves heart condition

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A new study indicates that running is good for your health and not only if you run for a longer period. Dr. D.C. Lee, lead researcher and assistant professor of kinesiology from Iowa State University said that these results have greater potential benefits for people with little physical activity in their routine, because might encourage them to try a small daily portion, knowing they don’t have to engage too much effort in order to benefit from health improvements.  Running increases lifespan because it prevents heart disease, since running only 5 minutes once at a time might benefit your heart.  These results are consistent with previous research findings indicating that duration of body movement is not related to health benefits.

Running Increases Lifespan Even If You Are Not a Long Runner

Results were based on an analysis of more than 55,000 people aged between 18 and 100, over a period of 15 years.  The researchers observed their overall health, if and for how long they ran,  their speed of running and for how long they lived.

Running increases lifespan notably.

The article, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, suggests that even with 30 minutes per week of running, you could add an extra three years to your life. The results are not easy to generalize, though; the authors take caution in making any clear statements.  What is clear though is that any running is good running instead of not moving any inch of your body. This might be good news for potato couches, since results indicated that running increases lifespan even if you’ re not a long runner: those who run less than one  hour per week have the same mortality benefits as those who run up to three hours per week, so there is no need to stretch your limits too much. As CNN Health cites, those who run, compared to non-runners, have 30% less chances of dying from any causes and 45% less chances of dying from heart related causes, even if they are affected by other conditions like diabetes, smoke-related health issues, and obesity.

Some other significant results show that consistency is also a key-component of making sure running increases lifespan, most of the benefits come from keeping a routine in running up to six years. There are several direct effects of running upon your body which explain its overall reduction of your mortality rate: the lowering of your blood pressure, the decrease of glucose production, the reduction of blood clots production. So, next time you seem too lazy to try it, think about those extra three years of your life.

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