What exactly are the ACSM World Heart Games?
The Games are a two-day Olympic-style competition for patients at either high risk for or with diagnoses for various cardiovascular diseases. The competition is an excellent opportunity for these special athletes to engage in a range of sports events that are consistent with their health status and capabilities. These athletes are highly motivated throughout their training and preparations, able to further advance their fitness and skills, and enjoy new levels of camaraderie and excitement. First and foremost, the events are engineered to provide challenges that are calibrated to the capabilities of clinically stable patients whose physicians have cleared them for controlled exercise in their home rehab programs. Rules of competition are engineered to provide challenges that matched to capabilities of clinically stable patients. Events include shuffleboard, swimming, bocce ball, golf putting, basketball shooting, tennis, biking, volleyball, and bowling, among others. In some events, su
