Cardio Respiratory fitness is one of the major components of physical fitness. It relates to your bodies capacity to provide your muscles with enough oxygen to carry out movement and exercise.
Major benefits of cardio respiratory fitness:
Decreases
- blood pressure
- fat stores
- LDL (bad) cholesterol
- anxiety and depression
Increases
- lactate threshhold
- heart efficiency (improves stroke volume, lowering your resting heart rate)
- oxygen consumption (VO2 Max)
- aerobic work capacity
- HDL (good) cholesterol
Improving your cardiorespiratory system provides a lot of health benefits. It will help shield you from a lot of cardiovascular illnesses, improve bone density, blood pressure and can also improve sleep quality. work in moderate -intensity cardio activities into your week and you will start to see great benefits. Cardio does not always have to be running, you can play sports, go biking, rowing and use interval based workouts.
