Before anything else, let me share you more about Aerobic Exercise. According to Medicine Net, Aerobic exercise also known as Cardio is any activity that you can sustain for more than just a few minutes while your heart, lungs, and muscles work overtime. This kind of exercise requires pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles, it stimulates the heart rate and breathing rate to increase in a way that can be sustained for the exercise session. Having known of the facts about Aerobics, I realized that Aerobics should be limited to how long can you do the exercise because if the level of intensity is too high, it is no longer an aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise includes running, swimming, dancing, hiking, walking, kickboxing, and other activities that makes your breathing a bit hard, makes your heart thump, and lets your blood course through your vessels to deliver oxygen to the muscles to keep you moving.
But what makes Aerobic exercise the best way to lose wight or to burn unhealthy fats? Why not weights or go to the gym? Well, as I research about it I have found answers from the site of Medical News Today and Live Science, and they have included there that "according to the study of an expert group from Duke University people, who did both aerobic exercise and resistance training, they did not see further improvements to their health — in terms of liver fat, insulin resistance and other measures — beyond those who did only aerobic exercise." "Their study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, is the biggest randomized trial to measure revisions in body composition from three different types of exercise in overweight adults who do not have diabetes, and results showed that people who did aerobics for eight months lost about 2.5 square inches of belly fat, as measured on a CT scan. That's about 1.5 times as much as people who did a combination of aerobic exercise and weight lifting, and about 20 times as much as those who only lifted weights. "Resistance training is great for improving strength and increasing lean body mass," said study researcher Cris Slentz, an exercise physiologist at Duke University. But aerobic exercise is better for losing belly fat because it burns more calories, he said. "
Fats are the ones that we consider in gaining weight and just to add up belly fats, to be more specific, are said to be more of danger than other fats because a study have shown that belly fats comes with higher risks of heart disease, diabetes and certain kinds of cancer, and that is why we need to burn it through the help of doing some cardio exercise. However, a study conducted by researchers at the Center for Brain Health at The University of Texas at Dallas have found that Aerobic exercise doesn't only limits its benefits to the physical health of a person, especially aging adults, but also mentally and/or emotionally. From the site of Center Brain Health : " The study, sedentary adults ages 57-75 were randomized into a physical training or a wait-list control group. The physical training group participated in supervised aerobic exercise on a stationary bike or treadmill for one hour, three times a week for 12 weeks. Participants’ cognition, resting cerebral blood flow, and cardiovascular fitness were assessed at three time points: before beginning the physical exercise regimen, mid-way through at 6 weeks, and post-training at 12 weeks. “By measuring brain blood flow non-invasively using arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI, we can now begin to detect brain changes much earlier than before,” said Sina Aslan, Ph.D., founder and president of Advance MRI and collaborator on the study. Exercisers who improved their memory performance also showed greater increase in brain blood flow to the hippocampus, the key brain region affected by Alzheimer’s disease. “Physical exercise may be one of the most beneficial and cost-effective therapies widely available to everyone to elevate memory performance,” Chapman said."
Wow! Aerobics really is beneficial for everyone. Having known that this kind of exercise doesn't require a lot of money and of your time plus its extra benefits on our mental health, I am much more inspired and motivated to be fit and healthy. Since at first, most of us had no idea that a simple walk is already an aerobic exercise I hope that as you have read this blog of mine you too were amazed and inspired. So keep your body moving and stay healthy! :)
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