As part of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement, the Choose to Move program provides women with practical solutions to lower their risk for heart disease, today’s No. 1 killer.

The program is a free 12-week physical activity program designed to help busy women increase their exercise levels and build healthy habits into their daily lives. The goals are to increase physical activity, eat and select nutritious foods, love their hearts and take time for themselves. Since the American Heart Association launched the program in 1998, more than 200,000 women have enrolled.

An American Heart Association (AHA) survey found the majority of women do not realize that physical activity is as important to their heart health as managing blood cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking. In fact, like those risk factors, a person is 1.5 to 2.4 times more likely to have coronary heart disease if they are inactive.