Exercise is still perceived by many as being an ‘optional’ part of their health plan. Yet, if prescribed with amount and dosage requirements based on your unique personal health profile - it can act just like traditional medicine: people can lose weight, lower blood pressure, lower glucose, and lower cholesterol. Essentially helping to prevent two of the leading causes of death in the United States: cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

But staying in motion is not only hard, it’s made even harder by the way the ‘exercise’ message is being delivered. Most patients whose doctors’ recommend physical activity, do NOT adhere to the recommendation and see it as optional. This is partly due to practitioners only ‘suggesting’ exercise alongside other health options such as medications and diet modification. This ignores the medicinal impact exercise can have on crucial biomarkers. Physical activity within your prescribed heart rate range will affect your biomarkers, while exercising outside your prescribed heart will not work like medicine to affect these metrics. 

Finally, for many patients, the cost of comprehensive metabolic exams to identify your unique gas exchange profile and generate a personalized exercise prescription is prohibitive. Anyone should be able to get an exercise prescription, at any time, and understand how working within that prescribed heart rate zone can move the needle on biomarkers for weight, cholesterol, glucose and blood pressure.