Cardiovascular Exercises

Cardiovascular exercises are exercises that help to make your heart and lungs stronger and healthier.

Your heart is a muscle, a lot like all the other muscles in your body. It pumps blood to and from your organs, joints, and everywhere else in your body. When you are sleeping or lying on the couch, it does not have to work very hard to pump the blood. When you stand up and move around it has to work harder to pump blood.

Since your heart is a muscle, it can be "out-of-shape" just like the rest of your body. If your heart is "out-of-shape" than it cannot pump the blood that it needs to, even when you are performing easy activities.

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