Hey everyone, Happy Workout Wednesday & welcome to the official JUNGLE FITNESS OC, aka Orange County Personal Trainer Blog! Today we’re explain what exactly is cardio and it’s significance.
Cardio is the key to longevity, sustained energy and overall health. It’s any exercise that triggers a sustained elevated heart rate. Think jogging, running, swimming, cycling — any low-resistance training that gets your heart pumping and your lungs working. It’s the kind of exercise that puts your whole body into high gear, burning calories and cranking up your metabolism. Cardio training can turn a dumpy middle-aged accountant into a marathon runner in a surprisingly short time span. It can do wonders for you too: burn calories to melt away fat, lower blood pressure and, in some cases, decrease cholesterol levels. We were made to run, to endure high levels of strenuous cardio output for hours on end. Tap into the endurance athlete within you and learn how to tick off the miles with a proper cardio training routine.
Cardio on AM
The health benefits of cardio are undeniable. It strengthens the heart and lungs, lowers blood pressure, helps you lose weight, promotes better sleep, and can even put the spark back in your sex life.
Cardio Fact
Cardio combats chronic disease, and can help you prevent or manage high blood pressure, lower your cholesterol levels, help type 2 diabetes, and even certain types of cancer.
(quoted from: askmen.com)
Cardio can change your life. Exercising can change life. Take the step towards this awesome chance to change your life. If you live longer, feel healthier, and look healthier, then why not start.
Among the recognized benefits of doing regular aerobic exercise are:
- Strengthening the muscles involved in respiration, to facilitate the flow of air in and out of the lungs
- Strengthening and enlarging the heart muscle, to improve its pumping efficiency and reduce the resting heart rate, known as aerobic conditioning
- Strengthening muscles throughout the body
- Improving circulation efficiency and reducing blood pressure
- Increasing the total number of red blood cells in the body, facilitating transport of oxygen
- Improved mental health, including reducing stress and lowering the incidence of depression
- Reducing the risk for diabetes.
As a result, aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of death due to cardiovascular problems. In addition, high-impact aerobic activities (such as jogging or jumping rope) can stimulate bone growth, as well as reducing the risk of osteoporosis for both men and women.
In addition to the health benefits of aerobic exercise, there are numerous performance benefits:
- Increased storage of energy molecules such as fats and carbohydrates within the muscles, allowing for increased endurance
- Increasing speed at which aerobic metabolism is activated within muscles, allowing a greater portion of energy for intense exercise to be generated aerobically
- Improving the ability of muscles to use fats during exercise, preserving intramuscular glycogen
- Enhancing the speed at which muscles recover from high intensity exercise
Both the health benefits and the performance benefits, or “training effect”, require a minimum duration and frequency of exercise. Most authorities suggest at least twenty minutes performed at least three times per week.
(quoted from: wikipedia.com)
Why not spend less than a hour a day doing a some cardio? It’s healthy for you. It makes you live longer. It does take time out of your day. It’s free. I don’t about you, but anything that will make me live longer and it’s free.
This is Jon Jung and… I’m out.
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