Cardio Exercise
Cardio exercise, known as aerobic exercise is essential for good health.
It gets your heart rate up, making your blood pump faster.
Regular cardio exercise can also help you lose weight, get better sleep, and reduce your risk for chronic disease. When doing more cardio exercises, more oxygen is being delivered throughout your body, which keeps your heart and lungs healthy. This means your heart doesn’t have to work as hard all of the time. This is good for your entire body.
What is Cardio Exercise?
Why doing Cardio Exercise?
According to Dr. Michael Bracko, a Calgary-based exercise physiologist and chair of the Health & Fitness Summit for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). What we found out might surprise you.
Michael Bracko (MB): Most people think of cardio like a long, slow distance activity like running, biking, hiking. But in reality, any form of exercise is a cardio exercise: long, slow distance is cardio; weight training is cardio; boot camps are cardio. Cardio is anything that raises your heart rate and makes you breathe heavy.
How often do you need to do cardio?
What are the cardio exercises?
To get the maximum benefit, try to do it at least three days a week. For example, most people have more time on the weekend, so do it on Saturday and Sunday and again in the middle of the week. It doesn’t have to be all on weekdays. And if you can fit more into your schedule, go for it.
Build strength in your glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings, and the muscles in your hips and lower legs.
Hiking
Cycling habitually, especially at a high intensity, helps lower body fat levels, which promotes healthy weight management.
Biking
Reduce Stress. You can kick and punch your way to a stress-free zone within minutes of your high-energy kickboxing routine.
Kickboxing
Increased muscular strength, endurance, and motor fitness.
Create better coordination, agility, and flexibility.
Dancing
Keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body. Helps maintain a healthy weight
Swimming
Strengthens your lungs. Runners have increased lung capacity from logging mile after mile. Strength immune system.
Running
Cardio exercise helps reduce your risk of heart attack, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and some forms of cancer.