It's National Heart Health Awareness month, which makes this the perfect time to build a fitness routine that protects your heart. Emiliano Tramontozzi and Camilla Bazley, certified personal trainers from Life Time, share a few moves that will keep you healthy, plus modifications if you're just starting out. 

It's National Heart Health Awareness month, which makes this the perfect time to build a fitness routine that protects your heart. Emiliano Tramontozzi and Camilla Bazely, certified personal trainers from Life Time, share a few moves that will keep you healthy, plus modifications if you're just starting out.&nbsp;

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This Exercise Routine Will Protect Your Heart Health

As we've been telling you all month long february. Is american heart health month and for good reason because heart disease is the number one cause of death here to help us protect our hearts and stay fit as personal training lead at lifetime fitness, Emiliano Tramon Zazi and Camilla Basseley guys welcome to the show, Good morning guys to be here. So how can exercise protect our hearts? Well, exercise is a great way to be able to lower your overall cholesterol, reduce your heart rate and your overall blood. So it makes the heart really resilient as we age. Okay, so for anybody who's just maybe starting out on their fitness journey right now, you guys have some key moves. You want to sort of demonstrate for us here this morning. Yeah, for sure. So what we have today is we have first off our kettle bell, the kettle bell is a fantastic tool to add cardiovascular exercise into your strength as well and combine them. So the first exercise is our kettlebell swing, which Camilla will demonstrate Camilla. So we're gonna sit back in our hand and then we're using the leg drive to propel that weight back and up right in front of you and really working through it. So you can see this is very cardiovascular in nature, it's consistent. You're working into your overall strength, endurance and Camilla's a champ. You can probably do this all day. I'm already impressed that she can do this. My legs are already killing me. Just watching. What is this working. Is this a full body. This is total body here. Yeah. And then from here. Yeah. Go ahead and set that bell down. This is total body. You work the legs. You have a nice standing plank working the core and the arms as well. Really good for the back and posterior chain. Let's talk about those dumbbell thrusters. Yes. So the dumbbell thrusters here, I'll go ahead and hand these over, Camilla will demonstrate once again, she's going to go ahead and rack those on top. And then from here, this is more of a vertical push. You're gonna dip down in the knees and then thrust those weights overhead. Nice. And then just repeating as we do it. So, you can see similar to the kettlebell swing. Total body work here. The arms are working, the legs are working shoulders, their shoulders. Everything. What about weight? If people don't know what kind of weight to start with a question. So, I always would recommend going a little bit lighter to start off. This is very cardiovascular in nature. So you don't need a heavy load to get the true benefit of the exercise. All right, so, let's move to a cardiovascular side of things. The jump rope, which that's the thing we all used in elementary school is still a great thing to use today. I just sort of take that jump rope to the next level. So from here, you know, the jump rope is a fantastic tool because it's something that is very it builds coordination as well as something that's very continuous. It's fun, you can get involved with it. It's a nice tool where you can get some jumping around in your later years that maybe at the very beginning you are doing it quite often but it brings you back, it's like a little bit nostalgic. So you can gamify your work out how many minutes of jump roping do you think you should do? Yeah, I mean you can do this jump rope is pretty low maintenance so you can go on for 10 minute intervals. Listen to some good music maybe 10 seconds maybe. Yeah, kind of play around between hopping and skipping and really get an extended workout out of it. Maybe go for one song to start and then you can do two songs and go forward. We have about a minute left. Everyone hates burpees, but tell us why they're so highly recommended and we should do them for sure. So burpees are cool. So one of the things with burpees are that it's same thing. Total body in nature. One of the hardest things is it doesn't always have to be plyometric or like high impact and jumping and you just have to wait for you. Yeah, you can do a Burpee with just simply reaching down for the floor, going into that position, picking one ft back and then the other foot right and then literally coming right back up. So bring that foot back up and that's a low impact, because I've always seen people do like a push up and then they jump up and you can start here and then if you want to accelerate it, boom, Our rock star Camilla, that's gonna be your high impact Burpee, but you can always start it off wherever your skill level. We only have 15 seconds, but I want to ask about food, how important is our diet. Diet is very, very important, right? So as you're doing the work here, you want to be able to bring it all together with the things that you are eating, any type of food that might cause extra inflammation will be counterintuitive to some of these exercises, Make the heart work harder for what it has to do. Maybe we don't get that shake shack. I was gonna say I was thinking shake shack today, thanks to Emiliano basically for helping us keep our heart healthy.