Exercise for cardiac rehabilitation

Exercise for cardiac rehabilitation

Introduction As I’ve written in previous blogs (click here), coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in the UK.  Not only that, there are 2.3 million people in the UK, who are living with coronary heart disease, including 500,000 who have been diagnosed with...
Coronary heart disease – an introduction

Coronary heart disease – an introduction

Exercise is medicine.  Nowhere is this more true than in the area of coronary heart disease (CHD). The positive effects of regular exercise on moderating CHD risk are manyfold. Before we examine exactly how exercise can be beneficial (covered in the next blog) the...
How the body adapts to aerobic training

How the body adapts to aerobic training

In the last blog (click here) we looked at how the two main measures of aerobic fitness, namely maximal aerobic fitness and long duration aerobic fitness, can be trained. In this article, we will explore exactly how these methods of aerobic training change the body’s...