Strength Training for The Heart
April 5, 2010The heart like the bicep is a muscle. We weight train to develop our muscles. We can see whether our bicep is developed or atrophied by its appearance. Since we cannot see the muscular condition of the heart, a good indicator of its condition is how we feel after running up a short flight of stairs. Out of breathe?, . atrophied heart. Since you cannot give the heart a weight to perform a bicep curl how do you strengthen it? Cardiovascular conditioning is what I call the weight training of the heart muscle. There are many ways to condition the heart. Two methods are aerobic and anaerobic training. High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a training approach that includes both of these methods while providing many other healthy benefits.