{"id":382613,"date":"2026-04-16T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:44:07","slug":"senior-cardiologist-explains-why-your-daily-walk-isnt-enough-and-the-one-heart-metric-you-should-track-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382613\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Cardiologist explains why your daily walk isn\u2019t enough, and the one heart metric you should track instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; overflow: visible; font-family: inherit; color: inherit; display: block;\">In India, walking is the most common form of exercise. Parks fill up early. Step counts are proudly shared. But very few people check how quickly their heart settles after the walk.<\/p>\n<p>This matters because cardiovascular diseases remain a leading cause of death in the country. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, heart-related conditions account for a large share of premature deaths.<\/p>\n<p>So the question becomes simple. Is the focus only on doing more, or on getting fitter?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kulkarni\u2019s example answers it clearly. Fitness is not about pushing harder every day. It is about how efficiently the body handles that push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In India, walking is the most common form of exercise. Parks fill up early. Step counts are proudly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[22775,565,134,7479,4195,7153,198798,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-382613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-aerobic-exercise","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-heart-attack","12":"tag-heart-health","13":"tag-heart-rate","14":"tag-heart-rate-recovery","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}