EXERCISE FOR POTENCY

Posted on Friday, March 27th, 2009 at 7:54 am

Exercise can boost potency by increasing your sense of well-being and your ability to handle stress. It also helps keep your arteries functioning well. So it’s important that you exercise regularly. Your doctor can help you plan an exercise program that will be safe and beneficial.

Ask him to focus on aerobic exercise—steady exercise over a prolonged period of time which increases your heart rate and makes your body produce more HDLs. Many activities qualify as aerobic exercise, including jogging, bicycling and walking briskly. To be really helpful, however, most of these exercises need to be done for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, at least three times a week. You don’t need to start out at this pace. Begin slowly and work your way up gradually. Exercise activities with a lot of stops and starts, such as handball, tennis and weight lifting, won’t do your arteries as much good as a less strenuous, but continuous workout. The key is to get your heart rate up to 80 percent of its maximum, and keep it there for 12 to 15 minutes. Ask your doctor what your maximum heart rate should be. Then, when you exercise, stop periodically to check your pulse to see what your rate is.

Faithfully following an exercise program for several months also tends to lower your blood pressure. Doctors know that high blood pressure is a major cause of clogged arteries, so lowering your blood pressure can help your arteries, your heart—and your erections.

Sometimes men who enjoy exercise believe that all they have to do to protect their health and their potency is work Out. Some people believe in the tooth fairy, too. The truth is that all the other elements of the potency program—diet, normal weight, normal blood pressure, no smoking and moderate use of alcohol, if any—are essential, too. If you jog five miles and then reward yourself with a double cheeseburger and fries, followed by a cigarette, your arteries are still susceptible to trouble.

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