Exercise For Your Heart

Regular physical activity can help strengthen your heart, improve circulation and reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. The type and intensity of exercise may vary depending on your age, fitness level and any underlying health conditions.

Printables

• Get the Exercise for your heart education sheet (PDF).
• Get the Exercise for your heart activity sheet (PDF).
  Print the activity sheet or save it to your desktop to digitally track.

Blog posts

• 5 tips for walking your way to better health
• Aerobic exercise
• Aerobic exercise: Top 10 reasons to get physical
• Exercise intensity: How to measure it
• Fitness program: 5 steps to get started
• How much should the average adult exercise every day?
• Interval training for heart health
• Isometric exercise and blood pressure
• Need to get moving? Start slowly

Videos

Additional resources

• American Heart Association: How Can Physical Activity Become a Way of Life?
• Access the full collection of our heart health blog posts.