Nutrition Services for Cancer Patients

You can do beginner to advanced cardio exercises at home, including high knees, squat jumps, and burpees.

Cardiovascular exercise, also known as cardio or aerobic exercise, is essential for good health. It gets your heart rate up, making you blood pump faster. This delivers more oxygen throughout your body, which keeps your heart and lungs healthy.

Regular cardio exercise can also help you lose weight, get better sleep, and reduce your risk for chronic disease.

But what if you can’t get outside for a daily run or don’t feel like hitting the gym? There are still plenty of cardio exercises you can do at home.


Nutrition Services for Cancer Patients

Changing your diet to decrease your risk of developing cancer is a good idea but starting an exercise program might also be helpful. Exercise is an important part of any weight loss program.

Being overweight and inactive could be hazardous to your health. Some studies on obese subjects are showing that being overweight may place you at risk of developing cancers of the prostate, cervix, kidney, breast, endometrium, liver, rectum, ovary, esophagus, colon, prostate, and gallbladder. The exact mechanism behind this increased risk of cancer for overweight people is unknown.

Whether you are a beginner to exercise or a seasoned athlete, you need to aware of basic exercise guidelines. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends the following:

Target heart rate
To benefit from exercise, it is important to maintain a level of intensity. A method of monitoring physical activity intensity is to determine if your heart rate or pulse is within the target heart rate zone during physical activity.

For moderate-intensity physical activity, your target heart rate zone should be 50-75% of your maximum heart rate.

How to determine your target heart rate zone:
To determine your target heart rate zone, follow these steps:

Thus, moderate-intensity physical activity for a 55-year-old person will require that the heart rate remain between 83 and 124 beats per minute during physical activity.

During exercise, you should stop exercising briefly and check your pulse from time to time to determine if you are exercising within your target heart rate zone. To check your pulse, using the first and second fingertips, press lightly over the carotid artery located on your neck, just to the left or right of the Adam's apple. Or check your radial pulse by pressing on the artery insert your wrist, just below the bas