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NHLBIHIN
Your Heart Your Life
A Lay Health Educator's Program
Learning About Heart Health
 Español  Teaching Heart Health  Your Heart Your Life Home
 Welcome
 Reviewing Risk Factors
 Part 1: Benefits of Physical Activity
 Part 2: Types of Physical Activity
 Part 3: Important Things to Know
 Part 4: Finding Time to be Physically Active
 Part 5: Walking
 Part 6: Staying Motivated
 Review of Key Points
 Closing
Coming Soon, Watch for other heart education topics

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Part 6: Staying Motivated

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Music Samples

  • Warm-up1
    (RealMedia** format,
    6,880 kb)

  • Walking2
    (RealMedia** format,
    format, 4,376 kb)

  • Cool-down3
    (RealMedia** format,
    format, 943 kb)

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Music is a great way to get yourself in the mood for being active. Use a lively song for the warm-up exercises, a faster beat for the walking, and a relaxing song for the cool-down period. Listen to the music Angela likes when she does her exercises.

Have plenty of cool drinking water available before and after the activity. It will help you feel energetic and refreshed.

Keeping a personal record (pdf *, 364 kb) of physical activity is another way to stay motivated.


* Information about PDF

Source:
1 Movimiento. "Movimiento (Ya Lo Siento)," Movimiento por su vida: Pasos para prevenir y controlar la diabetes tipo 2. National Diabetes Education Program. Sound recording. 2003.
2 Movimiento. "Esta En Tus Manos," Movimiento por su vida: Pasos para prevenir y controlar la diabetes tipo 2. National Diabetes Education Program. Sound recording. 2003.
3 "Al Ritmo Del Corazon (Instrumental)," Al Ritmo Del Corazon (To the Beat of Your Heart): Theme song of Salud Para Su Corazon. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health. Sound recording.

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