cardiovascular Health

General information

Regular physical exercise is the first pillar to improve your health from all points of view. Whether you are male or female, tall or short, fat or thin, competitive or rather vague, his heart and his whole body will serve you better if you exercise regularly. It helps weight loss, reduces stress, and increases physical strength and self-esteem. It also reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Exercise strengthens your heart to make it beat stronger. 

Your muscles also increase your ability to use oxygen, more oxygen and releases them, which increases their ability to work. In the long run, regular exercise makes your heart more effectively, and paradoxically, will need to beat fewer times to work just when you are resting.

Another beneficial effect of regular physical exercise is that it increases HDL cholesterol, high density or "good" protective effect on the arteries.

Aerobic and anaerobic exercise

However, not all types of exercise are the same. Which it improves cardiovascular health is aerobic exercise, or "exercise with oxygen": That makes your body use calories extra and oxygen continuously. Cycling, swimming, walking or jogging increase the rate and depth of breathing, warm the body and make you sweat.

Anaerobic exercise, or intense short duration, such as weightlifting exercise, can also be beneficial to health, but does little for the heart.