Exercise prescription

Being physically inactive or sedentary can lead to heart and circulatory diseases like heart attack and stroke. Being active can reduce your risk of developing some heart and circulatory diseases. These exercises have been designed for patients who have had a; heart attack/Myocardial Infarct (MI), Stent/Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) or Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG) and are suitable for most levels of fitness.

Before you start to exercise, it is important that you have been assessed by a member of the cardiac rehabilitation team or a medical professional. They will help guide you on how much exercise you can do safely and which level is appropriate for you.

You can view our introduction to exercise video below. For more excersise vidoes please view our playlist on YouTube.

 

If you would prefer to use a booklet to help with your home exercise, these can be downloaded from the links below.

Cardiac rehabilitation home exercise programme

Chair exercise programme for cardiac rehabilitation

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) offer a cardiac rehab email programme. You can sign up for this service on their website. 

The BHF has also developed a series of cardiac rehabilitation exercise videos which can be viewed here.