We just had Heart Health Month, did you add some exercise? Change your diet? That soda pop tax is coming…we all can do these things, but whether it be our routines, everyday lives being too busy, too stressful, we just cannot find that ‘healthy, me time’. Walk more, stand more, try some yoga, reduce processed foods…Fit Bit anyone? Those fancy step counters can give you a lot of information about your heart health. But if you would just like to get on the treadmill more or walk the dog, this is how you know you’re working at a good pace: take the number 220, minus your age, gives you your relative max heart rate. 75% of that is a heart rate that you will begin to burn more calories, take your pulse over 10 secs, multiply by 6 and compare!

Chris Bisignan, www.yourphysio.com