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What is aerobic exercise and its characteristics?
Aerobic exercise refers to low-intensity, rhythmic exercise, which lasts for a long time (about 30 minutes or more) and has moderate or upper intensity (60% to 80% of the maximum heart rate).

The three major aerobic exercises include:

1. Swimming

Swimming is a skill that people float upward under the buoyancy of water and make their bodies move regularly in the water by virtue of buoyancy. Swimming can be divided into competitive swimming and practical swimming. Competitive swimming is the second largest event in the Olympic Games, including butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and synchronized swimming.

jogging

Jogging (English: Jogging or Jogging), also known as jogging, jogging or jogging, is a moderate-intensity aerobic exercise aimed at warming up or exercising and running a relatively long distance at a slow or moderate pace.

Ride a bike

Benefits of exercise: delaying brain aging and improving the sensitivity of nervous system; Improve heart and lung function, exercise lower limb muscle strength and enhance overall endurance. Cycling has the same effect on visceral endurance exercise as swimming and running. Bicycle can also lose weight, which is a periodic aerobic exercise and consumes more calories. It has a good exercise rehabilitation effect on cervical spondylosis and lumbar disc herniation.

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Benefits of aerobic exercise:

1. Enhance cardiopulmonary endurance

When the exercise continues and the muscles contract for a long time, the heart and lungs must strive to supply oxygen to the muscles and take away the waste in the muscles. And this constant demand can improve the endurance of the heart and lungs.

Step 2 lose weight

Aerobic exercise can achieve the effect of slimming. Walking for half an hour after dinner can adjust the consumption of fat in dinner, and then the consumption of protein.

Increase hemoglobin

Long-term adherence to aerobic exercise can increase the amount of hemoglobin in the body, improve the body's resistance, resist aging, enhance the efficiency of cerebral cortex and cardiopulmonary function, increase fat consumption, prevent arteriosclerosis, and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. If dieters combine aerobic exercise with reasonable food arrangement, not only can they lose weight successfully, but their weight will also be consolidated.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-aerobic exercise