What exercises are good for heart health?

To the heart was healthy, not necessarily for hours sweating on a treadmill ... Rapid and intense sports much less time consuming, but they are no less beneficial for heart health than long workouts, experts say.

Scottish scientists have found that exercise exercises discord when it comes to health benefits cardiovascular system. To prevent heart disease and more efficient vessels are fast and intense training, not endurance exercise.
Experiment participants (47 boys and 10 girls) were divided into two groups depending on the intensity of workouts, which were held three times a week for seven weeks. During the intensive sessions, the participants committed sprint races to 30 seconds, while volunteers from the other group ran more measured within 20 minutes. By the end of the experiment participants from the first group otzanimalis a total of 63 minutes, and generally spent a 907 kcal energy, and children from the second group - 420 minutes spent on exercise 4,410 calories.
The representatives of both groups significantly improved cardiovascular health, such as blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc. In addition, adolescents engaged in sports more intensively, but at a cost of less time, reached the same results that the participants of the second group.
Study findings suggest that rapid and intense exercises take less time, while remaining healthy heart and blood vessels.