One of the most vital organs of our body is our heart and it begins to fascinate a number of people on how simple exercises can help you tremendously prevent you avoid diseases and heart complications.  Many of the inquiries on how these exercises should be done relate to what kinds of workouts to perform and hoe much time you need to devote on these exercises. The common opinion is that these exercises have to be performed for at least 30 minutes to an hour or 20 minutes for the highly intensive exercises. 

You might probably ask why you have to engage in an exercise to boost your heart.  The thing is that if you have a very sedentary job, then you would always feel very tired and exhausted everyday.  This is because your daily activities seem to be very monotonous that your body is no longer challenged.  When this thing happens, you would always feel aches in your muscles and you always feel sleepy. This is not only a sign of stress but a sign of unhealthy habit. If you want to live a healthier life, you need to exercise everyday just so you can warm up your muscles. 

The exercises and the workout routines are not only good for your heart but also for you to lose weight, to have healthier lungs, to have increased bone density, to reduce stress, to have better rest and relaxation, and to prevent you from getting heart diseases and even developing certain kinds of cancer.  A number of the diseases that we have today is attributed to the lack of physical activities such as exercise.  Here are some of the suggested workout routines that you can follow to maintain a healthy heart. 

Running - It is suggested that you do a running activity as it will tremendously challenge your heartbeat and help your body pump up blood efficiently on your system.  The good thing about running is that you need not buy expensive machines for you to workout.  You can avail of the machines for home workouts but you can also do running in open field.  Running helps you burn calories and lose weight as well. It is suggested that for a person who weighs around 145 pounds to do a running activity of at least 30 minutes. 

Cycling - Cycling either indoor or outdoor is efficient for a healthy heart exercise. It is also a very tough workout routine since it targets your legs, your hips. Cycling will strengthen your leg muscles and help you lose calories and this you can do in around 250 to 500 cycles or around 30 minutes of cycling every day.

Swimming - This enjoying past time is considered as one of the healthiest forms of heart exercises.  You can spend around 30 minutes of your time doing breaststrokes and you will see that you burned more than four hundred calories already. 

Step Aerobics - This activity is one of the routines that is basic in aerobics but is definitely healthy for your heart and even gives you a good shape.  For 30 minutes of this exercise, you get to burn 400 calories. It is more lively to have a video workout guide and then follow it.