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| From: [name of Coordinator] Sent: [day of week], [date], [time] AM Subject: A Hearty Combo! Weight training and cardiovascular health
Weight training can lower blood pressure, help control cholesterol, add muscle and be beneficial to many Americans, including people with low-risk heart problems, a new report says. The report, published in the Feb. 22 issue of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association (AHA), saysthat weight training can be part of a program to improve heart health thatincludes regular aerobic activity.'' Mild-to-moderate resistance training can provide an effective method for improving muscular strength and endurance, preventing and managing a variety of chronic medical conditions, modifying coronary risk factors and enhancing psychosocial well-being,'' Barry A. Franklin, M.D., of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., says in a note accompanying the report. Dr. Franklin says many studies havedocumented the safety of moderate resistance training in healthy adults and low-risk heart patients. However, Dr.Franklin and the panel that wrote the report does not advise weight training for people who have unstable angina, uncontrolled hypertension, uncontrolled arrhythmias, heart failure or
severe heart valve disease. "This report lends support for weight training exercise not only for the preservation of muscle strength and function, but also as an aid in modifying several cardiac risk factors,'' says Edward R. Laskowski, M.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center in Rochester, Minn.
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