| By :
Roger Brown
The pulse watch has made gaining a greater level of overall health and especially cardiovascular health work out possible. I know that's a broad statement but please let me go on… You can make a significant impact on your risk of heart attack, according to medical scientists, by as much as 78% by doing nothing more than lowering your resting heart rate to under 70 beats a minute. When you do that it is decreasing the amount of work that your heart has to pump blood around and distribute oxygen to various parts of your body. The oxygen enriches your cells and allows them to do their various jobs more effectively. What can you do to lower your heart rate? 1. Hit the machines harder - really pushing yourself in the gym in combination with using a pulse watch, you can target and tailor your workout to get the most cardiovascular benefit. But, it's a lot more beneficial to your body to run fast than to jog. So, by interspersing your workouts with high levels of intensity followed by lower levels of intensity, you can train your heart to operate at its optimal level. First, you need to determine what your maximum heart rate is though. The way to do that is to take the number 222 and subtract your age. If you're a woman, subtract your age from 206. Then, structure your workouts so that they are at 60 -85% of your maximum heart rate. You can only do that with a pulse watch. They allow you to constantly monitor your heart rate while you are engaged in any physical activity. 2. Go number 1 if you feel like you need to - holding it in and not releasing fluids from your bladder can unnecessarily constrict your vascular system and cause heart rate to have to work harder. 3. Knock yourself out - the more soundly you sleep the better your overall cardiovascular health. That is because you're allowing your heart rate to dip down to very low level for an extended period of time while you sleep deeply. If you have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep try high decibel earplugs that you can find at most any drugstore. 4. Eat a fish or take a fish pill - eating fish for taking fish oil pills will decrease the thickness of your blood. Him this will make it a lot less likely that you will suffer a stroke or other blockage induced cardiovascular event, like a heart attack. In conclusion, using a pulse watch will allow you to monitor your overall cardiovascular health in workout situations and really take control of the efficiency with which you are working out.
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