Do you have heart problems?  It is time to go to the gym and begin lifting weights.

The American Association says that some weight training can be good for them, and the overturning conventional wisdom that people with heart disease should not pump iron.

Mark Williams, professor of medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska said that, "Just like we once learned that people who have disease in the heart benefited from aerobic exercise, we are now learning that guided, moderate weight training also has significant benefits."

Weight training gives everyday benefits and has been seen as not a replacement but a complementary to aerobic exercise.  

What Professor Williams said is that "It helps people better perform tasks of daily living - like lifting bags of groceries."

For people who have unstable heart disease, weight training is not recommended, as well as uncontrolled high blood pressure or heart rhythm disorders, infections in and around the heart, and some other serious problems.

For those able to do it, increased in muscles mass is the benefits of  weight training which can help in weight control.

Professor Williams said that,"Patients are often apprehensive about going back to this form of activity, or doing things that might see as strenuous. Now we know that they can return to the active things they enjoy and love to do."