One of the most important forms of movement is aerobic activity. Aerobic does not just mean leaping and dancing in tights. The word aerobic actually means “motion that requires the use of air/oxygen.”
The aerobic cycle kicks in approximately fifteen minutes into a sustained movement that is increasing your heart rate. These movements include such activities as going for a brisk walk, running, bicycling, mowing the grass (with a push mower, not a tractor), raking, skating, or swimming.
Aerobic exercise is also called cardiovascular or cardio exercise, because it conditions two of the most important muscles in the body: the heart and the lungs. If you regularly perform aerobic (cardio) activities, every function needed for your body to acquire oxygen operates more efficiently.
When you are performing aerobic-level activities, all of the organs, vessels, and glands of the cardiovascular system adapt in a healthy way. They get stronger, more flexible, larger, smaller, or whatever is necessary to increase their efficiency.
The body’s most important nutrient is oxygen. Remember, you can go weeks without food (or can at least survive for weeks) and days without water, but you can go only a few minutes without oxygen. Exercise “with air” causes the body to take in and handle oxygen more efficiently.
You stay alive by taking oxygen in through the lungs. Real wellness, as always, embraces the body’s natural need for survival. Once the lungs have the oxygen, the heart and blood vessels pump it out to the rest of the organs. During aerobic activity, the body needs more oxygen than during inactivity, and it needs it faster than usual. That’s why, when you do cardio-type movements, you cause your body to adapt by increasing the efficiency of the lungs, heart, and blood vessels to take in, deliver, absorb, and store oxygen. In essence, you become a highly efficient oxygen-acquiring machine.
Health-care professionals working from a wellness perspective always seek to put people on a safe, personalized, regular cardiovascular exercise program for the vital benefits of fat reduction, improved oxygen levels, and enhanced cardiovascular performance. Regrettably, many well-meaning physicians will actually recommend avoiding exercise if people have cardiovascular challenges rather than create a beginning program that will work to create more aliveness.
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