Good Cardio Exercises That Will Create a Natural Healing Process in Your Body

Yes there is such a thing as good and bad cardio. It is all up to how you do the exercises. Here is a more detailed explanation about the good cardio side effects and why you should do them to get fit and lose weight.

Good Cardio 

The exercises talked about in Truth About Abs are basically bursts of excursion followed by a recovery period. That is when you sprint and rest after that. Or perhaps lift weights - which takes a lot of efforts from you but you do it for a short time and then rest to catch your breath. Mike Geary, author of Truth About Abs talks example, playing a ball game, soccer, basketball, tennis, rugby, racquetball, and so on. These type of activities has been linked to:

An increase of anti oxidants, anti-inflammatory response, better nitric oxide response, and an increase in your metabolic rate

Let me expand a little about each of those benefits so that you can better understand what your body gain from doing the right cardio exercises:

Antioxidants: Plants are the only source of antioxidants. Humans eat fruits, vegetables and nuts. The meat that we eat comes from animals that are fed on grass. Think about it - sheep, cows, dear, chickens etc... none are meat eaters. Mike in his book Truth About Abs also talks about grass fed meet as the preferred meat for us eat. Antioxidants are counter-actors for free radicals. So when you breath polluted air all day, you put in your body free radicals and the only way to combat them is eating fruit and vegetables because they have a lot of antioxidants.

Anti Inflammatory Response: It is exactly what it is - when doing the wrong exercises we may promote inflammation inside our body. When doing the right ones though - we promote an anti dot - pro inflammatory response in our body, so that we remain healthy.

Nitric Oxide: Is an important molecule responsible for communication with other cells in our body.

Metabolic Rate: Believe it or not but I looked in the dictionary for a definition of Metabolism, and this is what I found: "metabolism refers to the countless chemical processes going on continuously inside the body that allow life and normal functioning." So the better your metabolic rate the more fat and calories you will burn, and as a result of that, the healthier you are.

The other thing is that steady state endurance training trains the heart at one specific heart rate range, and that is no good for your heart because it may not stand day to day stressors. So when you get stressed which all of us do every day in this day and age, or even when we get really excited or frightened from something, our heart rate and blood pressure can increase rapidly, so it is beneficial for you to train your heart for these situations.

There is one point to emphasize here, and Mike do that in his book, variable cyclic training requires you to recover. That recovery period IS the factor that will elicit a healthy response to exercise stimulus.

And besides, it is fun.

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