February 12, 2025 • 10 mins
Get moving with Sonya Blakey! It's Wellness Wednesday, and Dr. Kim is back! Today, we're discussing heart health and fitness. Engaging in daily movement can greatly benefit your circulation and overall health. Whether you're sitting in a sauna, enjoying a massage, walking, jumping rope, or using an elliptical machine, it's important to stay active. Dr. Kim has the information you need to maintain your health and fitness!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Doctor Kim is back. We're talking about heart health. Fitness,
is that what's going on today? Fitness, moving, circulations, what else?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
So I always say get in where you can fit
in because everything might not fit everybody. So whether you're
sitting in asanam, whether you're getting a massage, whether you're walking,
jumping rope or on an actual elliptical machine, everyone has
(00:31):
a fitness that they can do where they won't be limited.
And so get in where you can fit in. Don't
have an excuse this year. You're gonna thrive in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You really are. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Yeah,
back with doctor Kim. That cart back walking.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh. On this Wellness Wednesday, Nation thirteen ninety Family, It's
Sonia Blakey On this Wellness Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I had to read my notebook. I'm taking a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Notes from doctor Kim Wholeness and Wellness Expert. And February
is heart health month. Last week we talked about food.
We talked about beverages like drinking water and fuse with
cucumber and time, and then foods such as kiwi and
what else, pumpkins?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Seas am I learning right, you're learning so good.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You're learning so good because meals at hell and beverage
with benefits are key and especially snacky smart right, we
talked about that as well. So they all help us
have a healthy heart.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And the heart is would you say that's the foundation
of our body.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it's not only is it a pump, but it's
something that I feel like that each and every one
of us should know past American Health Month because it's
so it's so important.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It gives us oxygen, it gives us life.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, like we talked about over a thousand times
in the Bible, it is actually listed clean hands.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Pure heart.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Guard your heart for out of it the issues of life,
and so not only should we guard it, but we
should learn about it and how important it is for
us to support it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's good. So we talked about food. So are we
getting into fitness now?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We have to be cause you know why why we
have a second heart in our body, it's in our calves. Really, yes,
So that's why cardio is so important. You don't have
to overdo cardio, but just thirty minutes of walking. It's
an overall workout to the whole body because it's your
(02:29):
legs in your calves doing the work and sending signals
to the heart, whether you're on a stare master, elliptical
or you're just jogging running. It's so healthy for the
hearts because both the hearts are speaking to each other,
the calves and the heart. So the veins that are
(02:49):
in the calves in your calves begin to send messages
to your heart that there's movement going on. And so
movement is so vital and so key when you are
talking about healthy heart habits. We gotta move, We gotta
move our bodies. Even massage is great. Get in a
(03:10):
massage at least once a month and allowing your masseuse
to work your cows.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What about people that sit at work a lot? Like
I do a lot of sitting at work. I don't
you know what I'm saying. So what do you do
in those instances? Do you have to like intentionally get
up and take a break every thirty minutes? Like what
do you advise for people that do a lot of
sitting for their job?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I actually tell them to get either standing desk or stand.
We were actually created to stand a lot, and you
can have standing walk. You can actually there's actually a
standing like walking treadmill that you can have this portable,
but stand more than you sit, move around, go to
(03:49):
the restroom, take the stairs instead of the escalator or
the elevator, or make a quick run. Like you know,
a few moments ago, I didn't allow something to be
brought to me. I said, no, I would like to
take a walk. That was me getting my steps in
taking a walk. So just take a quick walk, move
your body, stand more than you sit as much as
(04:10):
you can.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Should.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We monitor our steps because a lot of people have
those those mind necessarily because I don't necessarily love those
monitors that we wear or that we attached to because
of the the EMF and.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The radiation that they put off.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I would just mentally make a note of the time,
like I'm gonna at least get thirty minutes somewhere in
the day to just walk, even if I have to
add it up. I walk the stairs, I walk down
the hallway. I walked to use the restroom. That's We'll
do this another month. But do not hold your urine.
(04:51):
Go to the restaurant, take breaks.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well not this show, but that's gonna be a show
talking about that, but start walking start moving. We're talking
about Heart Health Month on Wellness Wednesday. There's more to
come with doctor Kim on Inspiration thirteen ninety owness thing. Yeah,
I'm kind of a thing. It's a wellness thing. It's
a Wellness Wednesday with doctor Kim.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
She's teaching us.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
She's been in the business, in the ministry, in the
wellness thing for over twenty years. And you've helped a
lot of people get healthy and do it from a
holistic way.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right, absolutely absolutely, And I'm just so glad to partner
with you guys where we are helping others achieve their
wellness goals faster, better and easier.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I like that it's Heart Health Month. Earlier we were
talking about the calves, like the calves that are in
your leg, the second heart. Like, you really blew me
away with that. I didn't even know that, you know
what I'm saying. Like, and I go to the gym.
I've had a personal trainer, but they never told.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Me that that's our cardio for your cardiovascular stuff. And
so you're doing cardio because you got to use your
legs to do the cardio, and your calves is pumping
that information, pumping that bulut straight to your heart, getting
you the oxygen that you need and then you actually
(06:19):
feel it, and you got to keep that heart rate
up so it can burn what fat and not muscle.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You mentioned something off air, so you said something about
cheat cardio.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You cheat, yes, like cardio, cheat cardio.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's like a life hack. You don't have to actually
get on a machine every single day. You can use
the benefit of a saunat because the sauna, if you
sit in there for about fifteen to twenty minutes, they say,
of course, we're giving you some suggestions and recommendations. Always
check in with your physician to make sure that anything
(06:53):
that we're talking about, or anytime that we go into
the gym that you can do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But fifteen to twenty minutes, your heart is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Going to begin to pump even faster, even more, You're
gonna sweat, but.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It gives you the same impact it's cardio. It's crazy
to me sitting in a sauna.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sitting in a sauna, sitting in sna and normally I'll
sitting in for like forty forty five minutes. You do
have to build yourself up to that, but it can
take the place of actual elliptical machines or rowing or
cycling or card Yeah, cardio.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's a little cheat hack.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
On the days that you said, I'm my knees need
to get my knees together, Well, I don't feel like
doing it today, but yeah, you'll get some great results.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But this SNA thing you have awakened us today. Anything
else you want to add about heart health.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And fitness and moving, sure, I like to also incorporate
infrared lights. There's a whole lifestyle and integration that we
can do when it comes to health and wellness and
a holistic approach. And so when you're doing sauna, if
you can add infrared. Sometimes I see people in the
(08:05):
sauna doing like stretches and moving because people might not
know how important mobility and stretching is to heart health
as well. In fitness, you know, you have your warm up.
Let's get warmed up because we're getting ready to do
our fitness. But the cool down, the stretching and the
mobility exercises are good. Lower body exercises like squats and
(08:29):
lunges are also really really good for heart health. And
so yeah, you can do like just ten squats a
day for any of us. Because it's important that we
know how to get on the ground and get up
from the ground. It's important that we know how to
go deep into a squat and come up. And then
(08:50):
swimming is all over body exercise, but it's great for
heart health as well. So those are some other fitness
tools that we can do you and incorporate in order
to have rate of health real quick.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So anything specific for us ladies as we you know, mature,
anything that you want to say that we can do
to have a healthy heart so that we can do
all that we are recalled to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Absolutely as women, I always love rebounding. I absolutely love
their little mini trampoline.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay, and spin.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'll put on like one of my favorite songs, you know,
one of my.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Favorite songs like Somebody Junior, Amen, that's my that's my
getting song.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But you can just start the song until it finishes
and you're on the trampoline and you've done that for
like five or six minutes, and it's equivalent to.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
An hour's worth of jogging.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Really Yeah, what about like jumping rope or jumping jacks
because everybody don't have no trampoline.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know, jumping is an actual movement right now, whether
you're just jumping up and down. It moves the lymphatic system,
and we'll talk about that. Because the lymphatic system is
our drainage system. It does not move on its own,
so it needs you jumping or yeah, gotta got it man.
We had a good class today. Well on this Wednesday,
(10:16):
doctor Kim, how can we.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Find you and get some more of these tips from you?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Absolutely meet doctor Kim dot com or keeping Moving with
Kim dot com, or if you go on TikTok, I'm
your holistic doc on TikTok and on IG I meet
Underscore doctor Kim.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
We'll be back next Wednesday, Well this Wednesday with doctor Kim.
Doctor Kim is back. We're talking about heart health. Fitness,
is that what's going on today? Fitness, moving, circulations, what else?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
So I always say get in where you can fit
in because everything might not fit everybody. So whether you're
sitting in asanam, whether you're getting a massage, whether you're walking,
jumping rope or on an actual elliptical machine, everyone has
(00:31):
a fitness that they can do where they won't be limited.
And so get in where you can fit in. Don't
have an excuse this year. You're gonna thrive in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You really are. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Yeah,
back with doctor Kim. That cart back walking.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh. On this Wellness Wednesday, Nation thirteen ninety Family, It's
Sonia Blakey On this Wellness Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
I had to read my notebook. I'm taking a lot of.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Notes from doctor Kim Wholeness and Wellness Expert. And February
is heart health month. Last week we talked about food.
We talked about beverages like drinking water and fuse with
cucumber and time, and then foods such as kiwi and
what else, pumpkins?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Seas am I learning right, you're learning so good.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
You're learning so good because meals at hell and beverage
with benefits are key and especially snacky smart right, we
talked about that as well. So they all help us
have a healthy heart.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And the heart is would you say that's the foundation
of our body.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, it's not only is it a pump, but it's
something that I feel like that each and every one
of us should know past American Health Month because it's
so it's so important.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It gives us oxygen, it gives us life.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, like we talked about over a thousand times
in the Bible, it is actually listed clean hands.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Pure heart.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Guard your heart for out of it the issues of life,
and so not only should we guard it, but we
should learn about it and how important it is for
us to support it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
That's good. So we talked about food. So are we
getting into fitness now?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We have to be cause you know why why we
have a second heart in our body, it's in our calves. Really, yes,
So that's why cardio is so important. You don't have
to overdo cardio, but just thirty minutes of walking. It's
an overall workout to the whole body because it's your
(02:29):
legs in your calves doing the work and sending signals
to the heart, whether you're on a stare master, elliptical
or you're just jogging running. It's so healthy for the
hearts because both the hearts are speaking to each other,
the calves and the heart. So the veins that are
(02:49):
in the calves in your calves begin to send messages
to your heart that there's movement going on. And so
movement is so vital and so key when you are
talking about healthy heart habits. We gotta move, We gotta
move our bodies. Even massage is great. Get in a
(03:10):
massage at least once a month and allowing your masseuse
to work your cows.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What about people that sit at work a lot? Like
I do a lot of sitting at work. I don't
you know what I'm saying. So what do you do
in those instances? Do you have to like intentionally get
up and take a break every thirty minutes? Like what
do you advise for people that do a lot of
sitting for their job?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I actually tell them to get either standing desk or stand.
We were actually created to stand a lot, and you
can have standing walk. You can actually there's actually a
standing like walking treadmill that you can have this portable,
but stand more than you sit, move around, go to
(03:49):
the restroom, take the stairs instead of the escalator or
the elevator, or make a quick run. Like you know,
a few moments ago, I didn't allow something to be
brought to me. I said, no, I would like to
take a walk. That was me getting my steps in
taking a walk. So just take a quick walk, move
your body, stand more than you sit as much as
(04:10):
you can.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Should.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
We monitor our steps because a lot of people have
those those mind necessarily because I don't necessarily love those
monitors that we wear or that we attached to because
of the the EMF and.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
The radiation that they put off.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I would just mentally make a note of the time,
like I'm gonna at least get thirty minutes somewhere in
the day to just walk, even if I have to
add it up. I walk the stairs, I walk down
the hallway. I walked to use the restroom. That's We'll
do this another month. But do not hold your urine.
(04:51):
Go to the restaurant, take breaks.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
We're gonna come back.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Well not this show, but that's gonna be a show
talking about that, but start walking start moving. We're talking
about Heart Health Month on Wellness Wednesday. There's more to
come with doctor Kim on Inspiration thirteen ninety owness thing. Yeah,
I'm kind of a thing. It's a wellness thing. It's
a Wellness Wednesday with doctor Kim.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
She's teaching us.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
She's been in the business, in the ministry, in the
wellness thing for over twenty years. And you've helped a
lot of people get healthy and do it from a
holistic way.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right, absolutely absolutely, And I'm just so glad to partner
with you guys where we are helping others achieve their
wellness goals faster, better and easier.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I like that it's Heart Health Month. Earlier we were
talking about the calves, like the calves that are in
your leg, the second heart. Like, you really blew me
away with that. I didn't even know that, you know
what I'm saying. Like, and I go to the gym.
I've had a personal trainer, but they never told.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Me that that's our cardio for your cardiovascular stuff. And
so you're doing cardio because you got to use your
legs to do the cardio, and your calves is pumping
that information, pumping that bulut straight to your heart, getting
you the oxygen that you need and then you actually
(06:19):
feel it, and you got to keep that heart rate
up so it can burn what fat and not muscle.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You mentioned something off air, so you said something about
cheat cardio.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You cheat, yes, like cardio, cheat cardio.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's like a life hack. You don't have to actually
get on a machine every single day. You can use
the benefit of a saunat because the sauna, if you
sit in there for about fifteen to twenty minutes, they say,
of course, we're giving you some suggestions and recommendations. Always
check in with your physician to make sure that anything
(06:53):
that we're talking about, or anytime that we go into
the gym that you can do.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
But fifteen to twenty minutes, your heart is.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Going to begin to pump even faster, even more, You're
gonna sweat, but.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It gives you the same impact it's cardio. It's crazy
to me sitting in a sauna.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Sitting in a sauna, sitting in sna and normally I'll
sitting in for like forty forty five minutes. You do
have to build yourself up to that, but it can
take the place of actual elliptical machines or rowing or
cycling or card Yeah, cardio.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
It's a little cheat hack.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
On the days that you said, I'm my knees need
to get my knees together, Well, I don't feel like
doing it today, but yeah, you'll get some great results.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But this SNA thing you have awakened us today. Anything
else you want to add about heart health.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And fitness and moving, sure, I like to also incorporate
infrared lights. There's a whole lifestyle and integration that we
can do when it comes to health and wellness and
a holistic approach. And so when you're doing sauna, if
you can add infrared. Sometimes I see people in the
(08:05):
sauna doing like stretches and moving because people might not
know how important mobility and stretching is to heart health
as well. In fitness, you know, you have your warm up.
Let's get warmed up because we're getting ready to do
our fitness. But the cool down, the stretching and the
mobility exercises are good. Lower body exercises like squats and
(08:29):
lunges are also really really good for heart health. And
so yeah, you can do like just ten squats a
day for any of us. Because it's important that we
know how to get on the ground and get up
from the ground. It's important that we know how to
go deep into a squat and come up. And then
(08:50):
swimming is all over body exercise, but it's great for
heart health as well. So those are some other fitness
tools that we can do you and incorporate in order
to have rate of health real quick.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
So anything specific for us ladies as we you know, mature,
anything that you want to say that we can do
to have a healthy heart so that we can do
all that we are recalled to do.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Absolutely as women, I always love rebounding. I absolutely love
their little mini trampoline.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay, and spin.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'll put on like one of my favorite songs, you know,
one of my.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Favorite songs like Somebody Junior, Amen, that's my that's my
getting song.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But you can just start the song until it finishes
and you're on the trampoline and you've done that for
like five or six minutes, and it's equivalent to.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
An hour's worth of jogging.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Really Yeah, what about like jumping rope or jumping jacks
because everybody don't have no trampoline.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
You know, jumping is an actual movement right now, whether
you're just jumping up and down. It moves the lymphatic system,
and we'll talk about that. Because the lymphatic system is
our drainage system. It does not move on its own,
so it needs you jumping or yeah, gotta got it man.
We had a good class today. Well on this Wednesday,
(10:16):
doctor Kim, how can we.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Find you and get some more of these tips from you?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Absolutely meet doctor Kim dot com or keeping Moving with
Kim dot com, or if you go on TikTok, I'm
your holistic doc on TikTok and on IG I meet
Underscore doctor Kim.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
We'll be back next Wednesday, Well this Wednesday with doctor Kim.
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