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Heart Matters: Understanding the Importance of Your Heart

Delve into the fascinating world of the human heart with facts, exercises, and risks. Discover why it's the powerhouse of your body, how to keep it healthy, and signs to watch out for. Learn about blood pressure, pulse, and target heart rate zones. Educate yourself to prevent heart diseases and empower your heart health.

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Heart Matters: Understanding the Importance of Your Heart

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  1. The Heart of the Matter • Put your hand on your heart • Hold out your hand and make a fist • Why do we wear wedding rings on our left hand? • lub-Dub, lub-Dub. Sound familiar? These sounds are made by the heart valves as they open and close

  2. Heart Facts • The heart is a strong muscle that pumps blood throughout your body • Your heart provides the power needed for life • An adults heart will beat about 70 times per minute • We have 6 quarts of blood that moves through our body 3 times every minute

  3. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart • Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart • Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard -- twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting

  4. Your heart and exercise • The heart changes how fast it pumps to meet your body’s needs. • As muscles work harder, they need more oxygen supplied by blood from the heart. • The heart has to beat faster to keep up with the needs of the muscles.

  5. Problems of the heart • Heart Attack - caused by blockage of a coronary artery. • Damage to the heart muscle can occur if there is insufficient blood supply for more than 20 minutes or more.

  6. Typical Warning Signs • Chest discomfort along with pain that runs down the left arm • Shortness of breath • Nausea • cold sweat, light headedness

  7. Risk Factors • Family History of early heart attack before 65 for women before 55 for men • Age (heart attack risk increases with age) • Race • Diabetes • High blood pressure

  8. Blood Pressure • The pressure exerted by the heart in pumping blood away from the heart. • High blood pressure is 140/90 or higher • Systolic (top number) is the pressure in the arteries as the heart contracts • Diastolic (bottom number) is the pressure in the arteries as the heart relaxes

  9. Did you ever wonder • Why a nurse checks your pulse during a checkup or why they check a victims pulse? • Your pulse tells how well your heart is working • Many factors affect pulse rate fitness level, genetics, stress, diet

  10. Your heart is a muscle • If you want it to be strong you need to exercise it.

  11. Did you know • Heart Disease is the #1 killer of women. • 1 in 3 women dies of heart disease • Yet women make up only 25% of participants in heart related research studies

  12. How to take your pulse • Never use your thumb • Begin your count with zero • locate pulse in your wrist or neck • count for 30 seconds multiple by 2 • Resting rate is your pulse rate before you get out of bed in the morning

  13. Target Heart Rate • To get the most benefit from aerobic exercise you need to work out in your target heart rate zone. • 220 - your age = maximum heart rate • MHR x 60% = lower range of zone • MHR x 80% = higher range of zone • You should be in this range of 60-80%

  14. Tuesday • In your groups • one member of group will complete 3 fitness stations • Two minutes of exercise, record pulse after exercise, 30 seconds, 60 seconds and 90 seconds after exercise • other team members will act as timers, recorder, and pulse taker

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