Doctors warned against exaggeration and excessive exercise, which leads to death, stressing the need to pay attention to the quality of sports chosen, and appropriate for the person's age and health, according to specific controls.
They told Emirates Today that exercise is required for all people, and at all ages, but for each sport category appropriate for them, and what corresponds to the effort they can make, and does not affect their health.
Dr. Yassin Hadi Al-Akidi, a cardiologist at the Prime Medical Center, stressed the importance of a balance for exercise, according to the age of each person, as well as his health, which controls the quality of sports that can be exercised. A condition that has been excessive to the human being and leads to harm.
He said: «Sport is one of the most important habits that are recommended to exercise regularly, to maintain health and avoid chronic diseases, but the type of sports activity varies according to age, due to the decline of human abilities with age, and with the need to keep up the sport to positive results».
He added: «There is no doubt that the person who is 60 years old, can not exercise sports exercised by the 20-year-old, as the human being in the young people have excellent physical abilities, and for sports performance is the maximum, so it is recommended to exercise all kinds of sports During this age, unless there are healthy contraindications, while noting with age decline in physical abilities and durability, it is advised during this stage to follow exercises, in order to test physical fitness.After the age of 60 there is a decline in fitness for humans, but this Do not prevent further exercise in this uncle But by following appropriate exercises and observation of their impact on each person ».
He talked about heart patients, stressing that they can exercise, but using simple weights when exercising therapeutic exercises, or sandbags that help strengthen. It is possible to exercise «aerobics», by following some videos, because it is useful for fitness and flexibility of the body, but must The patient first learns how to do these exercises by himself, through a specialist physiotherapist.
He continued: «It is useful for the heart patient also exercise many sports, such as swimming, walking and going to the gym, and do aerobic exercise, through a stationary bicycle or electric treadmill, as it helps to operate the respiratory system efficiently high, and pressure on the heart safely, and therefore It contributes to a very high heart efficiency, but taking into account that the duration of these exercises commensurate with the patient's health ».
He said: The heart muscle is the most important muscle in the body, and the most parts that are responsible for the continuity of human life, it pumps blood to all parts of the body to provide them with the food and oxygen they need to perform their functions and any lack of this perfusion cause a lot of problems, as it draws waste And toxins from the body, and eliminated to increase the efficiency of the work of various organs, and this muscle needs to exercise and exercise.
He concluded by saying: «maintaining exercise that helps to strengthen the muscles, is useful in improving the efficiency of the heart, and has a significant role in reducing the rates of aging significantly, because these exercises maintain the vitality of the tissues, as well as strengthening the muscle fat, which is the second heart In the body".
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