August 22, 2025 • 9 mins
When we think of heart health, we think of running, cycling, and cardio machines.
But what if one of the most powerful tools for a stronger heart isn’t on the treadmill —
but in the weights room?
In this eye-opening episode, mindfulness and wellness expert Dr. Soha reveals the surprising truth: strength training isn’t just for building muscle — it’s a proven, science-backed way to protect your heart.
Far from being “just for bodybuilders,” weight lifting has been shown to:
And the best part? You don’t need to lift heavy or train for hours.
Even 2–3 short sessions per week can create lasting cardiovascular benefits.
Dr. Soha breaks down:
This isn’t about bulking up.
It’s about building a body that lasts — with a heart that beats stronger, longer, and with more resilience.
🎧 If you’ve ever skipped weights thinking they don’t matter for health — this episode will change your mind — and possibly your life.
Because true heart health doesn’t just come from endurance.
It comes from strength.
_______________________________________________________________________
Theraputic Session by [Dr.Soha] "How Weight Training Lowers Blood Pressure, Inflammation, and Heart Risk Dr. Soha.
"Produced by [Team Relaxire]
Special thanks to [All our listeners on all platforms]
For collabs & partnerships: therelaxire@gmail.com | All rights reserved
But what if one of the most powerful tools for a stronger heart isn’t on the treadmill —
but in the weights room?
In this eye-opening episode, mindfulness and wellness expert Dr. Soha reveals the surprising truth: strength training isn’t just for building muscle — it’s a proven, science-backed way to protect your heart.
Far from being “just for bodybuilders,” weight lifting has been shown to:
- Lower blood pressure — sometimes as effectively as medication
- Reduce systemic inflammation — a major driver of heart disease
- Improve insulin sensitivity — reducing risk of metabolic syndrome
- Strengthen the heart muscle and improve circulation
- Decrease visceral fat — the dangerous fat around your organs
And the best part? You don’t need to lift heavy or train for hours.
Even 2–3 short sessions per week can create lasting cardiovascular benefits.
Dr. Soha breaks down:
- The science behind how lifting weights improves heart function
- Why strength training is especially powerful for women, older adults, and high-risk groups
- How to start safely — even if you’ve never touched a dumbbell
- Simple, effective routines that support both strength and heart health
- The myth that cardio is “better” for your heart — and why it’s time to rethink it
This isn’t about bulking up.
It’s about building a body that lasts — with a heart that beats stronger, longer, and with more resilience.
🎧 If you’ve ever skipped weights thinking they don’t matter for health — this episode will change your mind — and possibly your life.
Because true heart health doesn’t just come from endurance.
It comes from strength.
_______________________________________________________________________
Theraputic Session by [Dr.Soha] "How Weight Training Lowers Blood Pressure, Inflammation, and Heart Risk Dr. Soha.
"Produced by [Team Relaxire]
Special thanks to [All our listeners on all platforms]
For collabs & partnerships: therelaxire@gmail.com | All rights reserved
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Hello everyone, and a very well welcome to all of
you and relaxive podcasts and I'm your friend, your whole stuck.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And coach and so on.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So how are you, beautiful people, and how life is
treating you? Everything fine at the end, hopefully yes, And
you've got this, You've got this together and you're okay,
as I always say, all right, So what are your
views about weightlifting? Do you know that weightlifting is the
(00:35):
heart hack which nobody talks about.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh yes, you heard me right. We love It's two.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Sets of twenty minute sessions per week and cut down
the risk of part attack for you and stroke by
up to seventy percent. But most of us we are
couch potatoes. Please give it and don't give it any importance.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And this is very wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It doesn't just build up our muscles, It literally.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Reshapes our body.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Our heart health is promoted, our heart grows stronger. And
with the age we need the strength, this reliance. And
also now at every age, we are facing so.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Many stress.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Forms of stress every hour, perhaps or every day every week,
it's very very important to do some kind of exercise
daily alongside walking for at least thirty do forty minutes
and if you're doing your seven thousand steps, well you're good.
(01:55):
And if you're doing your four thousand steps even then
you're got nothink. Doing nothing is not an option, but
doing everything in moderation is the key for lunge abity
and for good health. So when you do aerobics, so
work out, or you do cardio, it really improves your
(02:16):
heart health.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What wait and the.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Resistance training, this delivers surprising benefits for your heart. If
you ever see clinical guidelines about that and how the
research is nils the truth about it, you can see
that the god of wescular diseases could be prevented by
just doing resistance training twice a week for twenty minutes working.
(02:47):
And it is so amazing to know this, and we
should apply it on our lives and we should install
this habit in us. You know how insuling small habits
leads to bigger changes. Seem like that our resistance training
(03:09):
can support your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Let me tell you that our skeleton muscles, they get
strengthened and so is our heart. Heart is also a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Muscle my the ones and that can respond and adapt
resistance training, which is very good. Start from lifting up
light weights and then go to the heavy ones. What
you have to see that how much weight you can
carry chest presses and go to.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In some form.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The blood must run to your heart and this can
keep this heart attack and cardios lit dicises and stroke
you know away from us. We can't prevent everything. I
know what we can try and God for bear. You know,
(04:02):
if we don't do anything for us, then we have
no point, no solid formats, no solid foundation to plan. Okay,
so if you're in those ones who do not exercise,
start doing it right now. Resistance training can also low
(04:24):
down your blood pressure, especially in people with mild to
moderate hypertension. With this exercise what they wants and lifting
weights is very good, so you should do it. Resistance
training improves our cholesterol levels as well, and high density
(04:47):
live approtein asia cholesterol is improved by eight percent according
to different studies, and it lows down the low density
lib protein up to twenty twenty percent imagine. And this
(05:08):
is what I'm talking about is LDL low density live protein,
so huge difference and we must do this for our
own code. While lifting ways, you have to watch out
that you maintain your balance. You got to preserve your
(05:30):
muscles but you've got to maintain your balance as well.
So miles exercise is in form of stretching daily.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If you're doing yoga, that's an extra pose. And guess what.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Our resting metabolic rate, it improves dramatically when we lived weights,
and that is an important factor preventing metabolic syndrome. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Just one kilogram of muzzle.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Increases resting energy expenditure by about twenty one galleries per day.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
These are the figures. So these heart benefits can help
us to be motivated and.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Towards the resistance training sessions, which we should have every
week at least twice a week. And whatever we are
doing for our body, at least we should exercise one
hour a buday and those people who can't do that,
you know, or at least walk for thirty minutes and
(06:43):
then do moderate exercise for thirty minutes, maybe any kind
of exercise and do lives wait.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know, and resistance exercises.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those are very good for your body because this can
low the risk of other list events by forty to
seventy percent. So don't miss on this because it's not
charging you anything. It's free, just a little bit of awareness,
a little bit of knowledge applied and a little bit
of time alongside your daily discipline.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Here you go, you live a healthy, happy, long life.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
In the end, I would like to compare both things,
meaning how caudio exercises helps love a body and how
resistance training helps ob a body. Actually, resistance training doesn't
act on the heart and blood vessels in the same
way as aerobic exercises. Resistance trainings they burn fewer calories
(07:49):
than aerobics, and in the moment main focus is on
once a building which raises long term energy the level
for us, whereas Arabic exercises can burn calories more faster. Okay,
but during that Arabic activity, whatever you're doing, your blood
(08:16):
is redirected from less active ocmes to the working muscles
to meet rising oxeat in demand a public body and
how your body gets oxygen get boosted by its.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That is what is consumed by your heart and your
heart rate, which improves, resulting in greater energy expenditure for us.
So that's it for today, my darlings, and I'll be
meeting you and yet another exciting and entertaining.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And informative episode of Relaxive Podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
As I say always is in honor for me, and
I'm truly humble to be connecting with you every time
I do, and I feel very good. I feel so
that and I hope so all that you feel the same.
And if that's the thing that all, I'm truly blessed.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So I don't try away.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
If you want to ask any questions we want to
give your feedback, you can through the email I've given you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And until next time, take a lot of care of you.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And all around you, and don't get to exercise your
muscles to do you know, moderate exercise of any kind
and lifting weights and doing resistance training. Do you have
a listening to your relaxed podcasts? And I'm your friend
(09:51):
and host talk and told you so, I'm ye for now,
my dear ones,
Hello everyone, and a very well welcome to all of
you and relaxive podcasts and I'm your friend, your whole stuck.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And coach and so on.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So how are you, beautiful people, and how life is
treating you? Everything fine at the end, hopefully yes, And
you've got this, You've got this together and you're okay,
as I always say, all right, So what are your
views about weightlifting? Do you know that weightlifting is the
(00:35):
heart hack which nobody talks about.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Oh yes, you heard me right. We love It's two.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Sets of twenty minute sessions per week and cut down
the risk of part attack for you and stroke by
up to seventy percent. But most of us we are
couch potatoes. Please give it and don't give it any importance.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And this is very wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It doesn't just build up our muscles, It literally.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Reshapes our body.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Our heart health is promoted, our heart grows stronger. And
with the age we need the strength, this reliance. And
also now at every age, we are facing so.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Many stress.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Forms of stress every hour, perhaps or every day every week,
it's very very important to do some kind of exercise
daily alongside walking for at least thirty do forty minutes
and if you're doing your seven thousand steps, well you're good.
(01:55):
And if you're doing your four thousand steps even then
you're got nothink. Doing nothing is not an option, but
doing everything in moderation is the key for lunge abity
and for good health. So when you do aerobics, so
work out, or you do cardio, it really improves your
(02:16):
heart health.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
What wait and the.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Resistance training, this delivers surprising benefits for your heart. If
you ever see clinical guidelines about that and how the
research is nils the truth about it, you can see
that the god of wescular diseases could be prevented by
just doing resistance training twice a week for twenty minutes working.
(02:47):
And it is so amazing to know this, and we
should apply it on our lives and we should install
this habit in us. You know how insuling small habits
leads to bigger changes. Seem like that our resistance training
(03:09):
can support your heart.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Let me tell you that our skeleton muscles, they get
strengthened and so is our heart. Heart is also a.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Muscle my the ones and that can respond and adapt
resistance training, which is very good. Start from lifting up
light weights and then go to the heavy ones. What
you have to see that how much weight you can
carry chest presses and go to.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
In some form.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
The blood must run to your heart and this can
keep this heart attack and cardios lit dicises and stroke
you know away from us. We can't prevent everything. I
know what we can try and God for bear. You know,
(04:02):
if we don't do anything for us, then we have
no point, no solid formats, no solid foundation to plan. Okay,
so if you're in those ones who do not exercise,
start doing it right now. Resistance training can also low
(04:24):
down your blood pressure, especially in people with mild to
moderate hypertension. With this exercise what they wants and lifting
weights is very good, so you should do it. Resistance
training improves our cholesterol levels as well, and high density
(04:47):
live approtein asia cholesterol is improved by eight percent according
to different studies, and it lows down the low density
lib protein up to twenty twenty percent imagine. And this
(05:08):
is what I'm talking about is LDL low density live protein,
so huge difference and we must do this for our
own code. While lifting ways, you have to watch out
that you maintain your balance. You got to preserve your
(05:30):
muscles but you've got to maintain your balance as well.
So miles exercise is in form of stretching daily.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
If you're doing yoga, that's an extra pose. And guess what.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Our resting metabolic rate, it improves dramatically when we lived weights,
and that is an important factor preventing metabolic syndrome. You know.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Just one kilogram of muzzle.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Increases resting energy expenditure by about twenty one galleries per day.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
These are the figures. So these heart benefits can help
us to be motivated and.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Towards the resistance training sessions, which we should have every
week at least twice a week. And whatever we are
doing for our body, at least we should exercise one
hour a buday and those people who can't do that,
you know, or at least walk for thirty minutes and
(06:43):
then do moderate exercise for thirty minutes, maybe any kind
of exercise and do lives wait.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know, and resistance exercises.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Those are very good for your body because this can
low the risk of other list events by forty to
seventy percent. So don't miss on this because it's not
charging you anything. It's free, just a little bit of awareness,
a little bit of knowledge applied and a little bit
of time alongside your daily discipline.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Here you go, you live a healthy, happy, long life.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
In the end, I would like to compare both things,
meaning how caudio exercises helps love a body and how
resistance training helps ob a body. Actually, resistance training doesn't
act on the heart and blood vessels in the same
way as aerobic exercises. Resistance trainings they burn fewer calories
(07:49):
than aerobics, and in the moment main focus is on
once a building which raises long term energy the level
for us, whereas Arabic exercises can burn calories more faster. Okay,
but during that Arabic activity, whatever you're doing, your blood
(08:16):
is redirected from less active ocmes to the working muscles
to meet rising oxeat in demand a public body and
how your body gets oxygen get boosted by its.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Goodness.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That is what is consumed by your heart and your
heart rate, which improves, resulting in greater energy expenditure for us.
So that's it for today, my darlings, and I'll be
meeting you and yet another exciting and entertaining.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
And informative episode of Relaxive Podcasts, and.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
As I say always is in honor for me, and
I'm truly humble to be connecting with you every time
I do, and I feel very good. I feel so
that and I hope so all that you feel the same.
And if that's the thing that all, I'm truly blessed.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So I don't try away.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
If you want to ask any questions we want to
give your feedback, you can through the email I've given you.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
And until next time, take a lot of care of you.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And all around you, and don't get to exercise your
muscles to do you know, moderate exercise of any kind
and lifting weights and doing resistance training. Do you have
a listening to your relaxed podcasts? And I'm your friend
(09:51):
and host talk and told you so, I'm ye for now,
my dear ones,
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