Cardio Made Simple: The Health Benefits You Need to Know

WHAT IS CARDIO?

Cardio is engaging in physical exercise and raising the heart rate for a long time. Cardio is also known as “aerobic exercise”. Aerobic exercises involve repetitive movements of the body. Anything that gets you to breathe harder is considered cardio. Cardio has numerous health benefits, including the main part of your body- the heart”. 

Below are some examples of cardiovascular exercises:

• WALKING
• CYCLING
• SWIMMING
• DANCING
• ORGANIZED SPORTS
• ROPE JUMPING and many more….

BENEFITS OF CARDIO

Maintains healthy body weight 

Research shows that performing cardio 3-4 times a week can help a person maintain a healthy body weight. Cardio burns calories and fat. A healthy dietary plan plays a beneficial role in it.

Healthy heart 

Medium-intensity aerobic exercise will make your heart muscle stronger. While engaging in workout the blood pressure rises. Heart starts to pump blood faster to the muscle. The fast pump of blood makes your tiny blood vessels go wider. Widen vessels will provide more blood and oxygen flow to the muscles and heart.

You can make your heart more stronger and make your life longer by including exercising in your daily routine. Heart is a indispensable part of our body. Which makes our body move think and do other physical activity by pumping blood to our body and brain.

Lowers your blood pressure 

Exercising and cardio can prevent or treat hypertension(High blood pressure). it can give rise to heart attack, dementia, heart failure or even stroke. Cardio can prevent heart disease related to blood pressure, ex:- Hypertension and Hypotension. Middle-aged people are likely to have it.

BETTER SLEEP 

Having trouble in sleeping at night? Don’t worry, It can be fixed. Performing cardio in your wake hours can fix your non-sleepiness (insomnia). A study that shows engaing in any aerobic physical activity shows positive effect on sleep and performance.

The study contains a group of 17 people with chronic sleep problems. They have been told to perform aerobic physical activity daily for 16 weeks. After 16 weeks of daily aerobic physical activity. They have seen some positive effects on their sleep and performance. Even there are some positive effects on their cognitive abilities.

Exercising is must to have a healthy sleep.

HEALTHY MIND 

Engaging in cardio can boost your mood. There’s a happen to be a study where people with depression participated. They were advised to walk on the treadmill daily for 30 minutes. After 10 days, they were told to report on their change in mood.

All the participants reported that there was a remarkable reduction in their symptoms of depression. These reports shows that engaging in exercise even for a short period of time can improve your mental health.

Exercising for even a short period can positively affect your mental health. Performing aerobic workout will help in release of endorphins. Endorphines are feel good hormones. Hormones that makes you feel good and stress free.

BENEFITS TO LUNGS 

Our lungs are the major part of our body. To make it healthy physical activity is most needed. If you are performing physical activity like jumping jacks, After a minute you will start breathing heavy as by, Breathing your lung will come in action. Lungs will provide more oxygen to body. That process makes your lungs stronger.

Physical activity can reduce the risk of chronic lung diseases like asthma. Getting yourself regularly in exercising can make your lungs healthy and reduces the risk of lung disease.

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