How much do you know about your fantastic heart? And how often have you stopped to consider what this muscle does, for every minute of every day and night, for the entirety of your life? Just for today, consider this....
Without you thinking about it, it contracts and relaxes (beats). For an adult it beats on average between 60 to 100 per minute. So for an “average” adult this is around 75 BPM. Now, Donʼt Panic if your heart rate is below or above this average! Iʼm talking about your resting heart rate here, which youʼll only get a good idea of if you take your pulse over the course of 3 days at least (at rest to get an average reading). It can also be affected by a range of factors - sheesh, did no one ever tell you about believing everything you read off the internet?
Your beautiful heart also pumps oxygen and food round your body and assists in the gathering up of waste from it. It can work independently outside the other systems in yourbody, e.g. the nervous system, a phenomenon which is not entirely understood. In fact, it can actually work outside of your body via a external life support system. It's made up of muscle not found elsewhere in the body and has itʼs own independent blood supply.
Youʼve probably heard that all muscle is affected by exercise - improved and strengthened by appropriate levels of it - and this is especially true of your amazing heart.
What you might not have heard before is that mat-based Pilates exercises can assist your heart in performing its functions more efficiently, and do so while relieving it from undue strain. Huh? What? How? ......
More tomorrow.
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