Heart rate. How many times per minute does your heart beat? That is the single most important indicator of whether or not you are in good health. It is the single most important aspect of your health that you should focus on.
Your heart is just a simple pump. Blood comes into it, and it pumps it out on average 72 times per minute, 4,300 times per hour, 104,000 times per day, 3,100,000 times per month, 40,000,000 times per year - 3,000,000,000 times during your life.
Imagine now that you were able to lower your heart rate by 10 beats per minute. That saves you on average about 15,000 heartbeats a day, 450,000 heartbeats per month, or over 5,000,000 heartbeats per year. It gets even better if you get your heart rate down to 52 beats per minute which is my goal – my key performance indicator of being in good health.
How do you do that? It requires one goal – observing a healthy lifestyle that includes eating and exercising properly. That you do so in a way that is manageable, achievable, and consistent. What is a healthy lifestyle? It combines eating properly and exercising on a regular basis.
Eating. Eating properly is keeping your total carbohydrate intake below 60-70 grams a day. Staying away from sugar. Staying away from potatoes, rice, bread, pasta, and grains. Food can either be viewed as fuel or an experience. Neither one should accelerate your demise. This is more important than exercise. What you don’t put into your body, you don’t have to work off.
Exercise. Should be easily available to you year-round. There should be a variety of exercises. They should not put you in harm’s way – where an injury can sideline you for prolonged periods of time. My favorite form of exercise is my Peloton. I augment it with my TRX cables, dumbbells, and a weight bar. And several days a week I do nothing but rest my body (I do a total of 100 pushups every day)
Peloton. GREAT exercise device, perhaps the best ever. My goal is to ride 300 miles per month. Usually 12-15 days per month. It stares at me in my bedroom constantly, beckoning me forth.
Sidebar: No, I do not own its stock.
TRX Cables. They are always hanging from my bedroom door. I try to use them 1-2 per week. 10 minutes. Done and dusted.
Dumbbells. Not heavy. Repetitions are more important than weight. My preference is to do what I refer to as Non Sweating Exercising with them at bedtime. Ten reps of something before I brush my teeth. Ten reps after. Ten reps after I say my bedtime prayers. Just enough to feel it, not enough where I am sweating. Just something that my body sees net calories out before bedtime.
In terms of exercising, you do you. But just do something sustainable and safe.
With limiting your carbohydrate intake and adding a pinch of exercise, you can reduce your heart rate 10 to 20 beats per minute. This will extend your life and give you the best chance of the time you have to be of high quality.
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Sidebar: The best way to define your average Heart Rate is by getting and wearing a “smart watch” such as the iWatch, FitBit, Samsung, etc. They provide you with lots of information including your average heart rate.
Wishes for a great day to all,
Hugs too,
David/
www.eachdayagift.com
