Exercising will not only help you lose weight, but it will also help you improve your Cardiovascular system. When I first began learning about my cardiovascular system, I wanted to see if I could really improve my Cardio in ten days. I started jogging to see what can actually improve my cardiovascular system. I found out fast that I was out of shape. I could only run a quarter of a mile before I ran out of breath, and my heartrate got too high. I decided I needed to improve my Cardio so I could live a longer life. I ran on my treadmill every day for ten days. Each day I got better and better. I was able to run farther and farther without my heart rate skyrocketing. Not only did I jog, but I also started to eat better. I ate more grains, vegetables, and fruits. I stopped eating junk food: chocolate, soda pop, and greasy foods. I didn’t think eating this healthy and running every day was going to help me, but it did! Not only am I losing weight I am also more confident and feeling happier. Exercising also helps you become a more healthy person. The steps in improving your Cardio aren’t very hard. People should try the easy steps to improve their Cardiovascular system because it will help them in many different ways.
There are many ways to improve your cardiovascular system, but one of the main ways is to exercise. “Just about anyone can improve his or her cardiovascular system just by taking simple steps.”(Perilla, Jisel). Any prolong exercise that keeps your heart rate going will help you improve your cardio.(Cardiorespiratory Fitness). There are many different types of exercises to do that keep your heartrate up, but most exercises are classified into groups. The different groups are classified as what exercises are better to hel...
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Why do we need to exercise? With out exercise many of our bodies arteries in the cardiovascular system can become clogged and bring on much unwanted cardiovascular diseases. Exercising regularly helps us maintain a healthy weight if already fi...
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Exercising regularly can help prevent excess weight gain or help maintain weight loss. You don’t need to go to the gym to exercise, doing small actives such as walking somewhere sort distance instead of taking the car or even do some exercises whilst watching T.V. Exercising boost energy, reduces stress, helps you sleep better and lifts our mood. It’s important to eat regular to ensure that your body gets the required amount of energy to move. Skipping a meal doesn’t help loss weight, it means that you will be more likely to eat more during the next meal.
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Exercise. Being active reduces the risk of heart disease. You should spend 120 minutes a week walking, jogging, riding a bike or any other activity that increases your heart rate.
One of the major systems of the body, which is effected by cardiovascular conditioning, is the circulatory system. With proper exercise the heart becomes stronger and is able to use energy more efficiently. Blood pressure will lower because the heart muscle does not have to work as hard to pump the blood. The heart will beat fewer times per minute while it is at rest, but it will be able to deliver a greater amount of blood with each stroke as a result of adequate conditioning. Conditioning has other benefits to cardiovascular fitness as well. It will increase oxygenation of the blood due to the fact that while exercising deep breathing increases the blood flow to the lungs. Under a well-planned conditioning program conditioning can help to decrease cholesterol and the incidents of deadly heart disease. Individuals who exercise regularly have a lower rate of heart attacks than individuals who do not participate in an exercise program. One of the most important aspects of conditioning for the heart is the warm-up. Warming-up before intense exercise gradually increases the heart rate and prevents abnormal heart rhythms. Sudden extreme exercise can cause the heart to demand more oxygen than the circulatory system can provide, resulting in strain on the heart muscle. Warming-up will help to prevent heart attacks that result from abnormal heart rhythms.
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Investigating the Effect of Exercise on the Heart Rate Introduction For it's size the heart has the huge capacity of pumping large amounts of blood, in the average adult's heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, pumps between 70ml and 100ml of blood with each beat, circulates 5 to 6 litres of blood around the body per minute and about 13 litres of blood per minute during vigorous exercise. The heart will beat more then 2.5 billion times during an average lifetime. This investigation will be looking at the effect of exercise on the heart rate. Aim The aim of this investigation is to find out how exercise affects the heart rate, using research & experimenting on changes and increases in the heart rate using exercise. Research â— The heart The normal heart is a strong, hardworking pump made of muscle tissue.
First, losing weight happens faster through a proper diet and not doing exercise. Good nutrition is more important than exercise because it helps to lose weight.
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Another thing exercise does to help your body is combats health conditions and diseases. Exercising, no matter what your current weight is, makes the HDL or High- Density Lipoprotein, which is the cholesterol in your body that is good, increase. Also the unhealthy triglycerides decrease when you exercise. These things help the blood run more smooth and in turn, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. Exercise also helps reduce heart disease, asthma, diabetes, and many other diseases found in the body. (mayoclinic.com)
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