Introduction: Cardio is defined as any type of exercise that gets your heart rate up and keeps it up for a prolonged period of time. Your respiratory system will start working harder as you begin to breathe faster and more deeply.
Benefits of cardio:
1.It is great for your heart: One of the very best benefits that you get from doing any form of cardio exercise is that it is very good for your heart. Your heart is just like other muscles in your body, in the sense that exercising it only serve to make it stronger and more efficient.
2. Increasing Circulation: Since, a heathy heart means that your body has an easier time circulating blood, it means that the various parts of your body receive more of the things they need to be healthy and do their jobs. It literally helps all of the muscles and organs in your body function better. It helps your liver and other internal organs increase their efficiency.
3.Creating healthy lungs: Working out your lungs through cardiovascular exercise helps to create more alveoli, which are the things that absorb oxygen, and on that same note, cardiovascular exercise helps increase your VO2 max, which is the rate at which your lungs can process oxygen, put it in your blood, and send it around your body. Thus, more efficient lungs result in an increased ability to absorb and process oxygen, thus providing your body with more of that so important O2.
4. Making you happier and reducing depression, stress and anxiety: Cardiovascular exercise helps to make you a happier person. This is in part because it helps to make you stronger, Fitter, more capable of physical output, and it makes your body look better in your full body length mirror too, but that is not really what we are getting at here. Cardiovascular exercise is great for your mental health because of something that we know as the runner’s high which is a release of various feel happy chemicals by your brain. If you suffer from stress, anxiety or depression then cardio exercise might be the best solution to relieving them.
5.Increasing confidence: Another benefit that you can get from engaging in regular Cardiovascular exercise that it will makes you feel healthier. When you are healthy it means that you can feel confident in your life and your long lifespan.
My personal experience:
I personally love doing cardio. It helps me to increase my endurance and stamina level during my strength training. It also increases my energy level throughout the day
An Article by,
Manpreet Singh {Personal Trainer, Definite Fitness Gym, Rajgarh- GHY, ACTION Interntional Certified Personal Trainer (Pursuing), Student of Stay Fit Live Pure Fitness Academy}
