The benefit of exercise that increase the heart rate.
Personal fitness expert Gerry Kelly encourages viewers at home,
To get out of your couch, or your chair or whatever it may be because what I'm going to do is, I’m going to take your heart rate.
He demonstrates how to take a pulse by using the wrist or the neck. Once the pulse is located Gerry Kelly times it for 10 seconds and then multiplies the number by six to get the heart rate.
Next, Gerry Kelly encourages the viewers to join with the in-studio participants, in some aerobic exercise to see how this affects the heart rate.
You join in with us, we’re going to jog around.
Following a period of vigorous movement everyone takes their pulse again using the same method as before.
It’s a bigger number, I hope.
In the studio, one of the participants, Geraldine, finds her heart rate has gone from an initial 78 beats per minute to 132 after exercising.
On 3 October 1983 weekday afternoon programmes began on RTÉ1. The 'Good Afternoon' series of programming was hosted by Thelma Mansfield. It included a varied line-up of shows including drama, keep fit instruction, cookery and children's programmes.
'Get Fit, Stay Fit' was a short weekday programme broadcast as part of 'Good Afternoon'. From Monday to Friday, director of Loughlinstown Leisure Centre Gerry Kelly carried out numerous stretches and exercises in a bid to get sedentary people moving.
This edition of 'Get Fit, Stay Fit’ was broadcast on 27 February 1984. The presenter is Gerry Kelly.
