Make sure your doctor has cleared you for exercise before starting an exercise program. When your heart is damaged from lack of oxygen it takes several weeks to heal and return to the best function it can. You may undergo a stress test before leaving the hospital, which can give your doctor a good idea of the level of physical activity you can handle. Generally, there's not a typical amount of time you need to wait before exercising. Your doctor will decide your specific exercise time frame based on your current health, the extent of your heart damage, and your physical condition before the attack. Your physician will recommend that you do not stress the heart muscle with exercise or sex until the muscle has healed. Exercise will help strengthen your heart muscle, improve oxygen efficiency, reduce your blood pressure, stabilize your blood sugar, reduce the potential for diabetes, help manage stress and weight and help lower your cholesterol levels. All of these factors will also help to reduce your risk for another heart attack. Start your rehabilitation with aerobic exercise, or cardio.  Anaerobic exercise is exercise that is at an intensity high enough to trigger the formation of lactic acid, which can build up in your heart. Anaerobic training is used primarily for non-endurance sports to promote strength, speed, and power. This type of exercise should be avoided after a heart attack. The anaerobic threshold is the point at which you cross from performing aerobically to anaerobically. Endurance athletes train to raise that threshold so they can perform at higher levels of intensity without lactic acid formation. Everyone recovers from a heart attack at a different rate. The rate of recovery is affected by the amount of heart muscle that was damaged and your physical fitness before the heart attack. During cardiac rehabilitation, your therapists will monitor your exercise program with electrocardiograms and blood pressure to prevent injury. Once you have completed six to 12 weeks of supervised cardiac rehabilitation you can be released to perform your exercise program at home. People who are involved in a cardiac rehabilitation program prescribed by the physician or through a team will have better long-term outcomes and recover faster. Despite this fact, only approximately 20% of qualifying patients are recommended to receive cardiac rehabilitation or a prescribed exercise program after a heart attack. Those numbers are lower for women and older patients. Take your pulse at your wrists and not your neck (carotid artery). You may inadvertently block the carotid artery while taking your pulse. Place the first two fingers (not your thumb, since it has its own pulse) of one hand on your wrist just below the thumb of the other hand. You should feel your pulse. Count the number of times you feel the pulsation during a 10 second period and then multiply that number by six.  You will want to keep track of how fast your heart is pumping so you can keep your heart rate within a range you determine with your medical provider. This range will be different depending upon your age, weight, fitness level and amount of heart damage you suffered. Sex is a form of exercise. Many times after a heart attack you will be referred to wait two to three weeks before having sex. This time frame depends on the amount of damage to the heart and your stress test results. Your doctor may also determine that you should wait longer than three weeks before having sex.
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