Guide To Equipment Types
Cardiovascular/Aerobic Exercise Equipment
An exercise is "aerobic" when it involves repetitive motions at at fairly steady pace to elevate your heart rate, speed up your breathing and produce a sweat. Still, you should be able to sustain the pace. If you have to stop and catch your breath, you've been exercising too hard--in an anaerobic mode.
Also called "cardiovascular" exercise, an aerobic workout usually involves your leg muscles--running, walking, climbing. Other exercise forms incorporate the upper body as well. Swimming, for example, or using hand weights while walking on a treadmill, or a Dual Action Elliptical Cross Trainer with upper body arms.
Aerobic exercise builds healthier hearts and lungs, helps you resist many diseases, increases endurance, tones exercised muscles, burns fat calories and actually helps you live longer. |
