Dr. Tara Narula

And really you want to focus on both for sure.

As cardiologists, we definitely talk a lot about the cardio and we give that number of 150 minutes a week of moderate cardio or 75 minutes a week of vigorous cardio.

But we also say you should be doing at least two days a week of strength or resistance training.

We know in particular for women as we get older, making sure we have muscle for our bones is going to be really important.

And for our overall weight management, building muscle is really key.

So you really don't want to negate one for the other.

You want to really focus on both.

And a lot of people think cardio has to be running.

And that's another conversation we have is that it can be anything.

It can be walking on the treadmill, elliptical, rowing machine, swimming, biking, dancing, anything where you're really getting your heart rate up.

Good.

I was going to ask you that talking about...

Yeah, it can be either.

I mean, some people also, there's some suggestion too that the high intensity, you know, people like to work that in a little bit.

That might be good for the cardiovascular system if it's something that you can do, but not necessary either.

It's so good.

And I walk.

I walk on a treadmill on an incline.

I find that that's very effective for like short periods of time.

20, 30 minutes, if that's all you can do, it's a really good workout.