Heart Strong

Heart Strong is an exercise program for patients who’ve participated in Penn Medicine Doylestown Health Cardiac or Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and want to maintain optimal heart health.

To sign up:

Heart Strong therapy with nurse and patient | Penn Medicine Doylestown Health

Health Information

Who is the Program for?

You could benefit from Heart Strong if you’ve been involved in cardiac rehabilitation and have experienced:

  • Angina
  • Bypass Surgery
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Transplant
  • Heart Valve Repair or Surgery
  • Lung Transplant
  • Stent Procedure

What are the Benefits?

By participating in Heart Strong, you will become stronger, improve your fitness level, and may even lose weight. Also, participating in the program makes you significantly less likely to experience another adverse heart event.

If it’s been six months or longer since you’ve exercised, you will need a referral from your cardiologist.

What is Included?

Heart Strong is $436 for a six-week program that includes:

  • Initial consultation appointment with a cardiac rehab certified personal trainer to discuss your goals and establish an exercise plan
  • Two thirty-minute sessions per week with a personal trainer
  • Full access to River Crossing YMCA facilities during the duration of the program

Members who have graduated from Doylestown Health Cardiac Rehabilitation may opt to purchase the Heart Strong Training Package or any Fitness Training Package available to members and will be paired with a Heart Strong trainer.

Health Information

You could benefit from Heart Strong if you’ve been involved in cardiac rehabilitation and have experienced:

  • Angina
  • Bypass Surgery
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Transplant
  • Heart Valve Repair or Surgery
  • Lung Transplant
  • Stent Procedure

By participating in Heart Strong, you will become stronger, improve your fitness level, and may even lose weight. Also, participating in the program makes you significantly less likely to experience another adverse heart event.

If it’s been six months or longer since you’ve exercised, you will need a referral from your cardiologist.

Heart Strong is $436 for a six-week program that includes:

  • Initial consultation appointment with a cardiac rehab certified personal trainer to discuss your goals and establish an exercise plan
  • Two thirty-minute sessions per week with a personal trainer
  • Full access to River Crossing YMCA facilities during the duration of the program

Members who have graduated from Doylestown Health Cardiac Rehabilitation may opt to purchase the Heart Strong Training Package or any Fitness Training Package available to members and will be paired with a Heart Strong trainer.