European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 than aerobic activities include jogging or running As opposed to which does not pro Duce a training Lap fast rope aerobic brisk walking and other activities that significantly increase the heart rate and breathing rate and that can be done continuously for at least 20 improvements in fitness can be measured just a few weeks after starting an aerobic exercise Zohman and Kattus list these cardiovascular and respiratory benefits of the training effect the heart beats both during exercise and at the heart of a Well conditioned person beating just 45 to 50 times a minute can pump the same amount of blood As the heart of an unconditioned person beating 70 to 75 times a Over the course of a this can mean More beats and in a year Over 13 million More beats for the unconditioned the slower the heart the longer the heart muscle can rest Between the muscle of the hearts main pumping chamber enlarges and it beats More forcefully so that More blood is pumped out with each in other the heart becomes a More efficient the blood pressure rises less during exercise than it would aerobic exercise has even been shown to be useful in lowering resting blood pressure among those with compared with the lungs of someone in poor physical the lungs of a Well conditioned individual can hold More air and such people need fewer breaths to sus Tain a Given level of the conditioned heart can get More oxygen Rich blood to working Muscles and can do so with less vigorous enables people to sustain intense activity for longer they get less fatigued from such activity and they recover More quickly from extreme Paul a cardiologist at Miriam Hospi an affiliate of Brown University in that while a training effect can be achieved in eight weeks through just 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a this level of activity May not be enough to diminish the risk of coronary heart most exercise cardiologists and physiologists agree that it is the outlying not the heart that Are the primary beneficiaries of the train ing according to Bengt an exercise physiologist at the August Krogh Institute at the University of Copen regular physical activity increases the number of Small blood vessels that Supply Muscles and also the num Ber of or intracellular in mus Cle with the blood volume in the muscle Capilla Ries May increase by As much As 60 Saltin has improves the ability of muscle cells to photo by red up Fundy exercise can forestall health problems other than heart extract oxygen from the it also primes enzymes in these cells to produce More Energy by combining oxygen with muscle trained Muscles also use More fat for instead of the sugar based muscle fuel that is present in Only limited so a conditioned per son can sustain activity longer without developing mus Cle these Are some of the indirect benefits of exercise to cardiovascular health regular even of moderate raises the amount of protective cholesterol carrying proteins in the these Are High density or which Are believed to function like arterial removing cholesterol from blood vessels and helping to excrete exercise May also lower total cholesterol Levels to an the amount of artery damaging Low Densi to Lipoprotein exercise can help reduce the amount of Tri Glyce another artery damaging Type of blood the bloods clotting mechanism inhibiting the formation of clots that might clog blood vessels and precipitate a heart attack or William a cardiologist at the Stanford University school of reports that a single session of vigorous exercise can dramatically increase anti clotting exercise helps people lose pounds of heart straining body which in turn can reduce the risk of heart attack by countering High blood pressure and even without weight exercise helps reduce the risk of High blood in a continuing study of nearly Harvard those who did not engage in vigorous sports were 35 percent More Likely to develop High blood pressure than those who did play another study of More than men and women examined at the Cooper clinic in Dallas found that those who were not physically fit were 50 percent More Likely to develop High blood people who take up exercise also tend to make other life changes that improve heart and lung for they May Stop smoking and decrease their consumption of fatty foods while increasing their intake of beneficial changes have been noted in Type a a Quick danger personality that is associated with an increased risk of heart exercise can forestall health problems other than heart among them the loss of Bone mass with which has resulted in a virtual epidemic of osteoporosis and broken Bones in elderly vigorous physical activity has been shown to Stem Bone loss and to stimulate the formation of new Bone tissue in those parts of the body that Are exercised against the playing arms of Tennis for have thicker Bones than the nonpaying a University of Virginia study of 35 men in 1978 Wall Pushup Pelvic tilt Bent leg setup new York times drawings exercises to prevent jogging before he took up Fixx smoked was 50 pounds ate foods High in fat and experienced severe stress on the even after running helped make him a trim the High stress and questionable eating habits remained Hallmarks of his according to Kenneth the Dallas physician and aerobics specialist who wrote running without fear Evans Cooper wrote his which is subtitled How to reduce the risk of heart attack and sudden death during aerobic in response to the fears about exercise raised by fixes Cooper is among Many exercise specialists and cardiologists who have shown that exercise can be indeed even for people known to have heart but such people must be especially conscientious about following an exercise prescription appropriate to their medical exercise is not a substitute for changing those aspects of your life such As eating a High fat being overweight or working under undue stress that increase your risk of heart attack and sudden physical activity can help counter these fac tors it is for to be a heavy smoker if you also run or swim exercise also can diminish the damage that dietary fats and cholesterol do to blood vessels it can lower High blood pressure and can help shed excess pounds and reduce but it cannot undo damage already done to the nor immunize against future someone who runs 40 Miles a week can eat a lot More calories without gaining weight than a sedentary person of the same running cannot protect against the potential cardio vascular harm that can arise if the extra calories come in the form of such High cholesterol foods As ice butter and these kinds of hear damaging habits Only increase the chances of dying suddenly during by ongoing studies of Harvard University alumni by Ralph Paffenbarger of Stanford University indicate that by controlling these risk factors and exercising the chances of a heart attack can be reduced 88 family and personal medical histories Are if heart disease runs in your family or if you have a known or suspected cardiovascular you should be carefully sex preferably by a cardiologist knowledgeable about before beginning an exercise