Dance for healthy heart
The heart is the central system that controls whole function of the body. The main job of the heart is to pump blood throughout the body and help it stay alive. The heart plays a major role in human health; and exercise plays main role in heart health.
The cardiovascular exercises increase heart rate and keep your hearts in shape. Regular exercises have also been shown to lower blood pressure, freeing your heart from some of the effort in moving blood through our system. But people don’t get much enjoyment and involvement in regular disciplined exercises.
They can do dancing exercise instead of regular exercises like walking. Professor of cardiology at Università Politecnica delle Marche School of Medicine Dr. Romualdo Belardinelli said, “researchers chose the waltz because it has “universal appeal” and is a very aerobic exercise, but he said other slow dances should work, too”.
The Italian did the eight week study on 110 people including 89 men and 21 women who had mild to moderate heart failure. They divided 110 people into 3 groups. First group had 44 men and women, they were asked to do cycling and walking on a treadmill three times a week.
Another 44 people in the second group were asked to dance three times a week. They chose to perform waltzes for 21 minutes, by dancing slow waltzes for five minutes and fast waltzes for three minutes alternately. Remaining 22 people are asked to read books.
The result of the study was amazing, the danced people experienced 18 percent improvement and ability to breathe efficiently; exercised group got 16 percent improvement and the other team didn’t find any improvement.
Elliott M. Antman MD, a heart specialist at Harvard Medical School - “A well-trained athlete utilizes oxygen very efficiently, so his muscles don’t demand as much oxygen-containing blood per minute. This is what allows him or her to exercise harder and further than the average person”.
Do the dancing exercise with full enjoyments and have a healthy heart.