Whether you're a busy mom, a career woman, or enjoying your golden years, Heart disease in women Center can help you become more physically active. This step-by-step program takes you through simple exercises and offers great tips for increasing your physical activity and reaching your goals.
Over the next 12 weeks, you'll learn new strategies to improve your health. Each week, you'll focus on developing new skills that will help you accomplish your objectives. You also can download charts and worksheets to help you track your progress. It may be helpful to keep these documents in a special binder so you can refer to them throughout the program.
It's important not to skip ahead since Heart disease in women Center uses a one-step-at-a-time approach. Explore the links below to get an overview of what's in store each week. To receive these e-mails in full, register here.
Week 2: Creating a plan of action
Week 3: Strengthening your resolve
Week 4: Accentuating the positive
Week 5: Avoiding traps and trip-ups
Week 7: De-stressing the stressed out
Week 8: Finding community resources
Week 9: Lapsing and snapping back
Week 11: Planning for the future
Week 12: Keep moving, keep choosing
Week 1: Choosing to move
How do you feel? Assess your current feelings and chart the benefits of exercise and healthy eating. Discover barriers that are interfering and strategies to reach your goals and feel great!
Week 2: Creating a plan of action
Take control of your life! Set short-term goals for daily progress toward achieving your long-term goal. Learn how high nutrition snacks can help energize you on your road to success.
Week 3: Strengthening your resolve
Account for your physical activity goals with your support partners — they'll help keep you in line. See how frequency, intensity and duration of physical activity impact calorie burning — and before you take-in the calories — know your fats!
Week 4: Accentuating the positive
Find sources of strength and positive thinking — within yourself, outside your immediate circle, with regular strength training and in healthy food choices.
Week 5: Avoiding traps and trip-ups
It's easy to get off-track. Avoid your potential pitfalls by becoming aware of them. Plan ahead to buy and prepare the right foods, and combine cardiovascular activity with strengthening exercises to help you stay on target.
Week 6: Reaching for more
There's never enough time! Read about ways to create more time for yourself, then challenge yourself to do more. Re-set the bar for your activity goals and incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your heart-healthy diet.
Week 7: De-stressing the stressed out
Try these stress-management ideas to get back on the path to health and wholeness, including regular physical activity and making informed choices when dining out.
Week 8: Finding community resources
If you're ready for something new, check-out local and national resources for healthy activities and organizations. Use a new exercise toy, set a new goal and eat a new low-fat snack for fuel.
Week 9: Lapsing and snapping back
Build confidence in your ability to reach your goals with preventative strategies to handle the occasional lapse or life change event. Choose daily physical activity because you're worth it!
Week 10: Staying motivated
Always be on the lookout for ways to fit fitness into your day — and keep a positive attitude. You've accomplished a lot so far; now aim higher!
Week 11: Planning for the future
If you've reached your physical activity goals, you may now be ready to create your long-term goals. If you're not quite there yet, just keep trying and success will come!
Week 12: Keep moving, keep choosing
You've made it to your final week — but it's not over yet. Practice your new skills throughout your lifetime to keep enjoying the benefits you've achieved. You can keep doing the program over and over by creating new goals that will lead you to lifelong heart health and fitness!
