In my post titled “Cross Training, Health and Fat Loss“, I mentioned that cardio training will help you in both your fat loss and strength training programs. Your heart is made up of a group of muscles that work together to pump blood throughout your body. These muscles benefit from exercise in much the same way your arm and leg muscles benefit when they are exercised.
Cardio Training is designed to exercise your heart muscles, increase your lung capacity and reduce the causes of stress within your body.
Heart attacks often happen when arteries to the heart are either blocked or have restricted blood flow. Numerous studies have shown that cardio interval training helps the body create new blood vessels to the heart. These smaller blood vessels supply extra blood when you are exercising and your heart muscles need more blood flow and they can supply blood to your heart if your primary blood vessels become partially blocked. These extra blood vessels are effective in reducing your risk of a heart attack simply by being present as an alternative route for the blood to reach the heart if needed.
The best way to prevent a heart attack is to eat healthy and avoid other risk factors such as smoking but adding cardio training to your routine sure helps create a little extra insurance.
Some recent studies have shown that aggressive strength training can help your muscles stay young at the cellular level. I haven’t seen any studies that have shown that a good strong cardio training program will keep your heart young but I’m willing to bet it helps.
Cardio training is also a great way to reduce stress. Swimming, jogging, yoga and walking are just a few of the different types of exercises that give your cardiovascular system a workout.
Why wouldn’t you want to add cardio training to your healthy diet and strength training when stronger heart muscles, increased lung capacity, increased metabolism, increased blood flow and reduced body stress are possible benefits?
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In my post titled “Cross Training, Health and Fat Loss“, I mentioned that cardio training will help you in both your fat loss and strength training programs. Your heart is made up of a group of muscles that work together to pump blood throughout yo…
Cardio is a staple and should be in every workout routine. Good post.
You do have to be careful though because if you do cardio too much, you will actually lower your metabolism and loose muscle.
some cardio along with a heavy influence or weight training is optimal for both male and female to not just lose weight but lose fat! and building muscle truly increases your metabolism.