CARDIOVASCULAR EXERCISES

Cardiovascularexercise decrease your risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and other life-threatening disease.

This type of exercise is called "aerobic" which means with oxygen. Involves steady, continuous motion of the large muscles which places a large and continuous energy demand on the heart, Should be intensive enough to raise and sustain your heartbeat to a target heart range of (60 - 80%) for at least 20-30min. minimum 3 times a week.
Check with health care professional if you are.
- Smoker
- Suffer from a chronic medical condition
- Have a personal or family history of heart disease.

The Benefit of Cardiovascular Exercises
It can burn a lot of calories
One of the benefits of cardiovascular exercise is that it is a good way to burn calories. Still, to lose weight with cardiovascular exercise - you need to do it for longer periods of time and more frequently to lose weight. It is best to try and both decrease your caloric intake and start a cardiovascular exercise program at the same time.
Can raise you metabolic rateSome studies have shown that with regular cardiovascular exercise your resting metabolic level will increase. This is one way in which it can help you to lose weight.
Decreases Risk of cardiovascular diseaseSome research suggests that even just walking 20 minutes, three times a week and can lower your risk of heart diseases

Types of Cardiovascular Exercise
There many types of cardiovascular exercise. Cardiovascular exercise is something that involves using the larger muscles like your legs. So as you can imagine there are many different way to do this. They can be divided up into a number of different categories. Indoors and outdoors exercise and with or without special exercise equipment.
Outside Cardiovascular Exercise
This includes running, walking, jogging, bicycling, jump-roping, swimming and some types of skiing
Indoor Cardiovascular Exercise The indoor types of cardiovascular exercise include using treadmills, stationary bicycles, stairclimbers, rowing machines, elliptical trainers and ladder climbers.

You may have noticed from the list above that for the most part the types of cardiovascular exercises you can do outside tend to be the ones that do not need any kind of special equipment. That is true for the most part. However, even when running or walking you should make sure that you wear the right kind of shoes - or you may injure your feet. Also, when bicyling you should wear a helmet. And of course, you need a jump rope to be able to go jump-roping!

For the most part though the indoor equipment is kind of expensive stuff. You may want to try some yard sales to see if you can find some of that equipment cheaper there first.

But, overall there are still many different types of cardiovascular exercise. What is best for one person may not be for another, depending upon your needs.