Exercise For Enthusiastic Beginners !
Another inspirational post provided by my exercise hero - EFFORTS Vice President, Ann Lornie.
Thanks, Ann!
I promise you I am not trying to ruin your New Year! I am doing everything I can to encourage you to get the best out of 2010. I want us all to be amazed and surprised that by Easter we will feel younger, stronger and “lunger”.В :) Please, do at least give these web pages a look. There are demonstration animations, but I couldn’t get some of them to work. However, the written instructions are quite clear.
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/warmup.html
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/stage_1.html
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/stage_2.html
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/stage_3.html
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/cooldown.html
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http://growingstronger.nutrition.tufts.edu/exercises/more_exercises.html
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Please check with your doctor if you have any doubts about health issues that may prevent you from exercising. I don’t mean things like the cat getting upset if it can’t spend all day on your lap. That doesn’t count. 
Love and laughter - Ann in England - Vice President, EFFORTS
But wait! There’s more!
Exercise Helps Patients With Peripheral Artery Disease
<<< ScienceDaily (Jan. 5, 2010) — Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects 5 million individuals in the U.S. and is the leading cause of limb
amputations. Doctors have long considered exercise to be the single best therapy for PAD, and now a new study helps explain why. Led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and published in the Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the findings demonstrate that a protein called PGC-1alpha plays a key role in the process.
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“Exercise is a staple of healthy living,” notes senior author Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, an investigator in BIDMC’s Cardiovascular Institute and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. “One of the many benefits of exercise, endurance exercise in particular, is the generation of new blood vessels in leg muscles.” Known as angiogenesis, this naturally occurring process comes to the rescue when an injury or artery blockage leaves normal tissue starved for blood.
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PAD is a common circulatory problem in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs. The end result is leg pain primarily encountered while walking. More seriously, PAD is also likely to be a sign of widespread accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries, which may be reducing blood flow to the heart and brain as well as to the legs. >>>
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Isn’t that great? We make every effort to exercise, thereby alleviating the symptoms of COPD and darned if we don’t get all these other benefits throw in for free? Are we lucky, or what?
Love - Ann in Iceland ….. sorry, England, I forgot where I was for a moment
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