Healthy Heart Workout Quiz
- Regular physical activity is an important step toward a healthy heart. What other steps can you take to reduce your risk of heart attack?
- stop smoking
- reduce high blood pressure
- maintain proper blood cholesterol levels
- If running marathons is not your idea of regular exercise, you can work up a heart-healthy sweat in your everyday life in a lot of ways. What are some of them?
- sitting in a sauna
- walking
- vigorous vacuuming
- mowing lawn with push mower
- gardening
- baking brownies
- raking leaves
- dancing
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Children are more physically fit today than they were a generation ago.
- True
- False
- What is the most common excuse for not engaging in physical activity?
- Besides being an important way to get ready for bathing suit season, regular physical activity can also benefit your health and well-being by improving which of the following?:
- blood cholesterol
- high blood pressure
- energy level
- sleeping patterns
- weight
- A heart-healthy schedule should involve at least 30 minutes of physical activity on most days of the week.
- True
- False
- A complete physical fitness program should involve activities that promote endurance, strength and flexibility.
- True
- False
- What should you do first before starting a vigorous exercise program if you're middle-aged or older, have been sedentary, are overweight or have a serious medical condition?
- What form of physical activity has the lowest dropout rate?
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