Introduction:
My dad is a personal trainer and we enjoy working out together. One of the things we do the most is go to the gym, where we work mostly on weights. As I continued going to the gym, a question arose in my head. “Which is better: cardio or weights,” I thought to myself. Since my dad was knowledgeable about this topic, he answered my question and I understood it. However, I wanted to know more about it so that I can answer and know about the topic myself. I narrowed it down from “Which is better” to “Which most positively impacts the most,” both in physical appearance and in health.
First of All:
Cardio is short for cardiovascular exercise. Cardiovascular exercise is exercise for the heart and lungs. During cardio, the heart pumps blood throughout the whole body, but mostly to the muscles that are being used. For example, when riding a bike, your leg muscles are the major contributors to the workout. The legs, as they move and work hard, burn a lot of oxygen that the blood cells bring. The more the muscles work hard, the more oxygen is needed. Cardio helps the system to “respond accordingly” to the lack of oxygen supply in muscles during workouts. Cardio also expands lung capacity.
Weight training is physical training that involves
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One major benefit is that it can boost oxygen supply to muscles, which allows them to adapt to higher workout intensities, and to the brain, which improves memory and decreases the risk of stroke. It allows better sleep by calming the brain and regulating the circadian rhythm, which is the mental clock in your brain that tells you when to go to sleep. For example, if you go to sleep every day at 10 pm for a week, your circadian rhythm is going yo be adapted and will reset to your sleeping schedule. Cardio also helps emotional health by improving self-esteem and confidence. It can also help people socialize more because of their connection to the
•While exercising your lungs tries to increase the intake of oxygen as well as release the carbon dioxide.
Because as you exercise the cells in your body will need more oxygen. So therefore, the heart will pump harder to get more oxygen
The heart is an extraordinary structure that is the base of all human life. However, it similar to the uncomplicated functions of water pumps. As the heart beats, blood is distributed throughout the body using a network of blood vessels. The functions of the heart can be kept in regular and healthy conditions through exercise. Exercise has an effect on the blood that is circulating through the body. That circulating blood makes the heart desire more oxygen, causing the heart rate to increase rapidly to keep up with activity demand.
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Nowadays, many people start to care about their health by eating healthy foods and doing exercise to be good shape and good health, or to get over their sickness or pain. The most effective way is working is weight lifting and cardio training. Weight lifting is an activity that strengthens muscles and body by lifting heavy objects, such as lifting dumbbells, pushing up, barbell hack squat, etc. And Cardio training is an activity of exercise that raises heart rate to beat faster, strengthens hearts, lungs, and involves with blood vessel, such as running, jumping, swimming, etc. (Ricketts, 2016) However, weight lifting is better than cardio training in fat loss because it can increase strength, increases metabolism longer even after exercise,
Obviously cardiovascular fitness is very important. The cardiovascular system of our body is extremely vital and helps to fuel other systems such as the muscular system as well. By conditioning, for an average person, they are decreasing their risk of heart disease and stroke, and are also building up their strength and endurance as well. For an athlete, cardiovascular conditioning helps them to build their endurance and speed, and helps them to utilize the oxygen they need more efficiently. It is important to have that base of cardiovascular fitness, so that other forms of training, such as strength training, are more effective.
These results make sense because the heart beats faster in order to keep the body’s cells well equipped with oxygen. For one to continue exercising for long amounts of time, cells need to create ATP in order to use energy. Oxygen must be present for the process of creating ATP, which not only explains why higher respiratory rates occur during exercise but also faster heart rates. When the heart is beating rapidly, it is distributes oxygenated blood as fast as the body n...
Hypothesis – I predict that as the intensity increases during exercise the heart rate will also increase. I think this because your body needs oxygen in order to efficiently break down glucose and process it into your cells. As the exercise intensifies, you need more energy and therefore more oxygen. Your blood carries oxygen from the lungs to your muscles. To keep up with these increased oxygen needs, you have to have more blood going to your muscles. As a result, your heart pumps faster, sending more oxygenated blood to your muscles per second.
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Aerobic exercise involves improving the cardiovascular system. It increases the efficiency with which the body is able to utilize oxygen (Dintiman, Stone, Pennington, & Davis, 1984). In other words, aerobic exercise means that continuous and large amounts of oxygen are needed to get in order to generate the amount of energy needed to complete the workout. The most common type of aerobic exercise is long-distance running, or jogging. While running, the body requires large amounts of energy in order for the body to sustain energy. “During prolonged exercise, most of the energy is aerobic, derived from the oxidation of carbohydrates and fats” (Getchell, 1976).
Any progress in physical fitness can help boost your capacity when working as well as the ability to respond effectively in an emergency situation.
It even helps you test better according to a the Mayo Health Clinic’s statement: “Those who had exercised during the preceding month but not on the day of testing generally did better than those who had been sedentary, but did not perform nearly as well as those who had worked out that morning.” Another internal effect of working out is muscles receiving more blood, higher VO2 level, and helping maintain bone mass. The fitter a person is, the more efficiently their heart works therefore, blood pressure decreases and new healthy blood vessels form. Exercising expands a person’s life cycle because the more someone workouts, the healthier they are. Furthermore, the brain is one part that no one would think exercising has anything to do with, but it’s the main one that is affected. Exercising results in increased brain flow which helps the brain function more efficiently. Also, new brain cells are formed that help boost memory and learning. A number of neurotransmitters are triggered, these are what controls a person’s mood; this is how exercise prevents depression. Working out improves development of neurons, production of nerve protecting compounds, and can reverse brain and muscle decay. There are various positive internal effects that exercise has on people’s
Steady amounts of exercise help manage the fat to muscle ratio of the body. Exercise attracts attention because of its ability to maintain a person’s weight. The simple act of walking burns calories, contributing to overall weight loss. For fitness fanatics, consistent, and more intense, exercise builds muscle. When muscles are not worked out they weaken, and the chances of injury elevates. However if muscles are overused, they become fatigued, and the risk of strains rise. Long term cardio exercise induces long term benefits. Studies have shown, with regular exercise, comes an increase in metabolism. Since exercise improves overall fitness, it helps boost the immune system. Nonetheless don’t overdo it, too much exercise without enough rest can promote colds. Keeping a consistent
Cardio is a term coming from the word cardiovascular, which is the system of the heart, veins, and blood vessels running through a persons body. So when you do an aerobic exercise, you are doing an exercise that is strengthening your cardiovascular system. Aerobic exercises are generally low intensity workouts, much lower than strength training for example, but go on for much longer durations of time. An example of aerobic exercises would be, but not limited to; swimming, running, jumping rope, biking, rollerblading, and walking. There are a great number of benefits that having a strong cardiovascular system can bring, some of which are, being at less of a risk for heart disease, you will have less stress in your life, and it can ease depression. But one of the biggest reasons for doing aerobic exercise is the fat loss it can bring. Aerobic exercises go on for generally long amounts of time, and in that time you are bound to burn a few calories. When you burn more calories than you take in your body will look to its reserves, its reserves being fat. Your body will use that fat as a source of energy, and this is how fat loss happens. Cardio often goes hand in hand with weight training, because without cardio you will not be able to show off what you have gained throughout your weight
Physical fitness have numerous benefits including muscle strength, muscular endurance, brain activity, preventing obesity and lowering risk or major body problems. Reduces gaining weight, improves losing weight and less likely to have accidents later in life. Also improves ones lifespan, living a healthier life and improves sleeping. Physical activity helps reduce ones stress, anxiety, and depression also improves over all life. A half hour or so of physical activity daily can yield benefits. Also can improve ones flexibility (Brezina), which can effe...