The advances in medical technology, the increasing incidence of cardiovascular diseases and the aging of the world population contribute to a rising prevalence of heart failure year by year with such problems as low 5-year survival rate, high readmission rate, and poor prognosis. The rapid development of exercise-oriented cardiac rehabilitation shows particular importance of adopting exercise therapy as a non-drug treatment for patients with heart failure. Exercise rehabilitation training include aerobics exercises,resistance training, respiratory muscle training and neuromuscular electrical stimulation. However, such exercises programs are problematic for many patients receiving clinical treatment because they either dare not exercise or do not know how to exercise. Accordingly, this article reviews the research progress in exercise rehabilitation for patients with chronic heart failure.