Cardiovascular Endurance Provides Youth and VitalityCardiovascular endurance describes how much physical energy you have. It involves the efficiency with which your body takes in and utilizes oxygen. There are a lot of people who are "big and strong" but lack this type of endurance and so they really aren't as strong as they seem. A fit but smaller person who has excellent cardiovascular endurance would actually be stronger than such a bigger person. Developing your heart's endurance is done by working out in ways that deliberately get your heart rate elevated and get you breathing heavily. Arguably the most obvious and most popular means of enhancing cardiovascular endurance is by jogging. There are other means, too: skipping rope; playing racquetball; bicycling; stair climbing; hitting a heavy punching bag; doing kettlebell workouts; and even dancing.
People with good cardiovascular endurance have more energy than the average person in their age range and may have energy levels higher than people who are decades younger. They have lower resting heartbeat rates and deeper breathing, both of which things mean that they are processing oxygen throughout their bodies more efficiently than the average person. They tend to sleep better and they tend to appear younger than their actual age. They tend to fend off illness better or faster than the average person does.
There are a couple of myths about cardiovascular fitness that should be mentioned. One of these myths is that doing aerobics will make you lose weight and become fit. If this is true, why are there so many fat people doing aerobics? No, it's not because every time you see a fat person doing aerobics they must be a beginner. It's because aerobic exercises don't give you a very good workout. They might make you feel that way, but if so that's only because you're out of shape. If you want cardiovascular fitness and to
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