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Cardiovascular activity plays an important role in our lives.
Numerous cardiologists have documented the benefits of exercising your cardiovascular system. However, it is very important that we start training our heart efficiently.
Is training at a high intensity the way to go? Absolutely not. We need to decide what is the most effective way of training your heart. Lately everyone is following interval training. As an ex-athlete I can guarantee that I don’t agree 100% with this method.
When I was an athlete, our trainer always used to emphasize the importance of conditioning your body before you started engaging in interval training. That’s what I recommend : First condition your body and then after at least 4 weeks of conditioning you might be able to follow interval training.
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What source of energy will we be using for our routine?
This involves knowing what source of energy our body uses while performing an exercise. It is not the same to be training hard (your body will use muscle protein) as training at a low and medium intensity (your body will use fatty acids).
So we need to go through the process in different steps: We need to set our target heart rate, which is important because we need to know the difference between training aerobically (when your body uses oxygen) and anaerobic (with no oxygen).
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We tell ourselves stories to learn. We make choices from when we wake up till we go to bed. Some of them are good some of them are bad.
We have an important choice on the way we live our lives. Don’t we want to live our lives to its fullest?
Training requires the same attention that you are giving to other fields of your life. The quality of the years you are about to live is the question you should ask yourself. Do you just want to have a sedentary life, enjoy the pleasures of life and have to go to the doctor every single month?, or do you want to live a healthy and active live enjoying life to its fullest?
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Researchers have well documented through different studies that those individuals engaged in some sort of aerobic activity when training at a medium intensity had the fastest cognitive responses measured by reaction time, the speed that subjects processed information and problem solving. (Jean Blaydes)
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This aerobic activity will not only report benefits in a current situation but it will be decisive in how do we age.
Therefore we need to take care of our heart. It is fundamental that we don’t base our training in the highest intensity range. Our body works like a sort of business where in order to make money we need to spend much less than what we make.
So if your body needs 2,000 calories and you are consuming 2,500 with no exercise it is clear that you will start packing up those pounds. We need to pay attention to the ratio calories consumed/calories burnt.
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Do you need any help setting your heart rate? Email me your heart rate and I’ll give you some advice.
(Please be approved by a physician to exercise)
For more great recommendations about your heart and exercise, please visit
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=830
Websites:
Article: SCIENCE DAILY
“Fatness, Despite Fitness, Is Linked With Cardiovascular Risk Factors”
Click here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050419105030.htm
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