Cardiac Services
Exercise For Your
Heart - The Beat Goes On
Trillium's Cardiac
Wellness and Rehabilitation Centre (CWRC) recently developed
an exercise video for patients to use at home entitled 'Exercise
For Your Heart - The Beat Goes On'. This resistance
training exercise video is specifically designed for cardiac
patients or seniors, but is applicable to anyone embarking
on a new exercise routine. The video is safe, comprehensive
and easy to follow. It features two options for resistance
training - Free Weights (dumbbells) and Exercise Tubing.
The exercise video
is just over 36 minutes in length and begins with a warm-up,
two options for resistance training, and finishes with a cool-down,
stretching out all muscles used in the video.
The idea for this
video came right form the patients in the CWRC. Resistance
training is vital and not always something patients feel comfortable
doing at home on their own. This video allows patients
to exercise in their home with the company of video instruction.
The feedback from
patients has been overwhelmingly positive.
To Purchase
The Exercise For
Your Heart video can be purchased in both DVD and VHS format
from Trillium for only $19.95.
Hospitals, Seniors'
Homes and Community Centres have the opportunity to purchase
this video and customize it for their own use with their logo
and a brief introduction. Personalized casings are also
available.
To purchase or for
more information about this video, please call Michelle Johnson,
Clinical Leader, CWRC, at (416) 259-7580 ext. 5431.
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