Cardiovascular Fitness

Cardiovascular fitness refers to the ability of your respiratory system to deliver oxygen to your muscles, and for your muscles to utilize oxygen for sustained physical activity. Why is it important for health?

Cardiovascular fitness is related to many health benefits and there are many ways of improving and maintaining your cardiovascular health.

Physical fitness is associated with many health benefits, but what is fitness? How fit should you be? How do you get fit and stay fit?

Anaerobic means in the absence of oxygen. The exercise that you do is anaerobic if your body's requirement for oxygen exceeds its supply.

Aerobic means in the presence of oxygen. If you are doing aerobic exercise your working muscles will have an adequate supply of oxygen so that you can sustain your exercise over a relatively long period of time.