It’s an unfortunate truth that most of us put our cardiovascular health on the back burner until it's almost always too late. So, this World Heart Day (29th September, it's okay if you are reading this on a later date, you still have a heart), we want to give you a critical and timely reminder to take care of the organ that is quite literally, your lifeblood.

We hear the word thrown around often enough. “Man, I have no stamina”. “I’m working on my stamina”. “She’s got great stamina”. You get the drift. It’s used interchangeably too, with ‘strength’, ‘speed’, and most commonly, ‘endurance’. But what does the word really mean?