Regular exercise of at-least 30 minutes per day in most of the days of a week can produce some amazing result both to manage cholesterol as well as overall health.
Aerobic exercise to lower cholesterol
Aerobic exercise makes the heart beat faster and breathes harder, thus burns more calories. Lung expands more and energizes the whole body. Doing aerobic exercise for 30 minutes a day at least five days a week provides many benefits. Exercise of 30 minutes can even divide into several parts, example take three brisk sessions of 10 minutes each.
Do some warm up, stretch before start exercising, and make to cool down after finishing the exercise? If new to exercise, then start slowly with five to ten minutes a day. Add a little more time each week, aiming for at least two to three hours per week.
Some aerobic exercises
You can try some common aerobic exercise:
- Brisk walking
- Climbing stairs
- Swimming or taking a water-aerobics class
- Dancing
- Riding bicycle (outdoors or indoors)
- Taking an aerobics class
- Playing (basketball, volleyball, tennis or other sports)
- In-line skating, ice skating, or skate boarding
- Cross-country skiing
Weight exercise to lower cholesterol
Doing exercises with weights, spring or elastic bands, or weight machines three times a week builds the muscles and bones. When you have more muscles and less fat, then these muscles burn more calories even between exercise sessions.
Physically active does not mean to run a marathon. In fact, if interested the key to success is starting slowly and gradually increasing the effort. For instance, start by taking a walk during breaks at work and in-steps lengthen or increase the pace of the walk.
Important: If you are having heart disease or high blood pressure, or if a man over 40 or woman over 50 who is planning to be active, should check with the doctor before starting their physical activity program.