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The Heart To Deliver Oxygen To Working Muscles
The heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles.
- Aerobic exercise stimulates the heart rate and breathing rate to increase in a way that can be sustained for the exercise session. In contrast, anaerobic ("without oxygen") exercise is activity that causes you to be quickly out of breath, like sprinting or lifting a heavy weight.
- Aerobic exercises include cardio machines, spinning, running, swimming, walking, hiking, dancing, cross country skiing, and kickboxing. There are many other types.
- Aerobic exercises can become anaerobic exercises if performed at a level of intensity that is too high.
- Aerobic exercise not only improves fitness; it also has known benefits for both physical and emotional health.
- Aerobic exercise can help prevent or reduce the chance of developing some cancers, diabetes, depression, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis.