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5 Best Exercises to Strengthen Your Heart: How Walking, Cycling and More Help Cardiovascular Health


As one gets older, cardiovascular health is so important and experts tell Closer there are five key exercises to help strengthen the heart, including walking.

Get back to the “Walking is one of the simplest and most effective exercises you can do for your heart,” point out the folks from Family First Urgent Care in Texas. “Building the other muscles in your body will help your heart,” say doctors at Utah’s Intermountain Health. Whether it be a stationary or road bike, “when you cycle, your heart rate is elevated, causing your heart to work more efficiently by pumping oxygen to your muscles,” says trainer John Gardner, cofounder of the training platform Kickoff.

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