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 If you live on the East Coast or the Midwest, you are used to winter warnings. Most of us have learned to bundle up and watch out for dangers such as black ice. For exercise enthusiasts, there are additional things to heed as the cold weather settles in so listen up: Your heart works harder in the cold environment. This could be attributed to wearing heavier clothes, shivering and the rise in resistance in the blood vessels.
So if you exercise in cold weather, here are some winter warnings that will protect you and help to avoid a heart attack:
- Make sure you warm up.
- Make sure you cool down for five minutes. This prevents blood from pooling/staying in the legs.
- Exert yourself less outdoors than you do indoors.
- If you normally walk one mile on the treadmill, don’t try to walk two miles for the first time.
- If you normally walk one mile on the treadmill indoors, don’t try to sprint half a mile for the first time.
- Rethink shoveling snow if you are a couch potato or have heart disease. The work intensity of shoveling show can correspond to 97% of peak heart rate.
- If you like doing things yourself, then start strength training now.
- Never take a hot shower after shoveling snow.
- Shovel for a few minutes at a time.
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A board certified physician and personal trainer, Dr. Evelyn Wells has provided clients with her medical expertise for over 6 years. She fulfilled her pre-med requirements at Princeton University and received her medical degree from Howard University Medical School. Dr. Wells completed an Emergency Medicine residency program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York where she was Chief Resident. Currently on staff at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey, her specialties inlcude bariatric medicine, emergency medicine, and personal training. For more information on Evelyn’s weight management programs visit PhysiciansFitnessSolution.com. 
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