Aerobic exercise also burns calories, helps with endurance, heart health, lung capacity, and strength.
Researchers believe that the increase in breathing rates caused by aerobic exercise help improve short term memory.
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"Aerobic exercise is two to three times as effective as any known brain-training activity, " says Sam Wang, Ph.
Three of the camps I saw had outdoor soccer fields, and various camps also had foosball, table-tennis, and aerobic exercise equipment.
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You can break up your workout into three 10-minute sessions of aerobic exercise and get the same benefit as one 30-minute session.
Strength training, aerobic exercise and stretching can prevent muscles from withering, reduce disability and even reduce pain intensity by 10% to 50%, Rainville says.
Simply doing aerobic exercise such as walking or light treadmill workouts will not be adequate to preserve muscle tone, bone health, balance and posture.
These recommendations include at least 60 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise a day, such as brisk walking, plus high intensity activity three times a week.
We're sweating out stress at the gym, too, which also hits the V-spot: Aerobic exercise and yoga enhance vagus nerve output -- as does meditation.
While doing 30 minutes of daily aerobic exercise is certainly important to maintain heart health, its also very important to decrease the amount of time we spend sitting.
This should include vigorous (jogging) and moderate aerobic exercise (a brisk walk), as well as twice-weekly activities, such as weight training, which maintain or increase muscular strength and endurance.
People in this group were also the only ones who showed a significant increase in their maximum oxygen consumption (which measures the capacity for aerobic exercise) compared to the non-exercising control group.
The 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans released by the Department of Health and Human Services recommends that adults age 18 to 64 engage in at least 2.5 hours of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise (brisk walking, biking) or an hour and 15 minutes of vigorous activity (like running) each week.
Strength training also has positive benefits on bone maintenance and stability that eclipse the potential benefits of aerobic weight-bearing exercise.
Aerobic activity is a repetitive rhythmic exercise involving large muscle groups such as legs, shoulders and arms.
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Although HbA1c didn't change significantly for people who did aerobic training only or resistance training only, it fell by 0.34 percent in the combination exercise group.
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