Cardiovascular Exercise - Improve Your Health With Cardio
So, what is cardiovascular exercise, you ask? It is a term we often hear, but not everyone knows just what it means. Cardiovascular exercise is any type of exercise that increases the workload of the heart and lungs. The most common forms of cardio are walking, jogging and running. Another term for cardiovascular exercise is aerobic exercise.
So, why is it so important? There are many physical benefits to cardiovascular exercise. They include reduced risk of heart disease, improved heart function, improved cholesterol levels and reduced risk of osteoporosis. Those are some pretty impressive benefits if you ask me. To get the benefits previously mentioned from your cardio workout, it is important for you to sustain your workout for at least 20 minutes with 30 being ideal and do 3 to 4 sessions a week.
Obviously, it is also important for you to challenge yourself. A good cardiovascular workout should definitely elevate your heart rate. One easy way to test if you are working hard enough is the talk test. Simply say a sentence in the middle of your workout; if you are too winded then you are overdoing it. Likewise, if it is easy to talk than kick it up a notch!
Cardiovascular Exercise - Improve Your Health With CardioIf your looking to loose some unwanted pounds, cardiovascular exercise is the way to go as it burns calories and fat.
A very effective way to improve your cardiovascular system and burn fat and calories is to interval train. The theory behind interval training is to alter the level of intensity during the workout. A great example of cardiovascular interval training is the run/walk workout. Start by walking at a pace that challenges you, than go into a jog or run, then back to walking, than back to jogging or running and so on for 30 minutes (or more depending on your fitness level). Beginners should start out with walking segments being 5 minutes and jogging segments being 1 minute. As your fitness level improves, shorten the walking segments and increase the jogging segments. This way you are always working towards the goal of improving your cardiovascular fitness level. Interval training can also be taken into the gym and done on a treadmill, bike, elliptical or cross-trainer. Simply vary the resistance and or speed on your machine of choice to increase and then decrease the workload.
Walking and jogging are by far the most popular types of cardiovascular exercise. A reason may be because it is so accessible. It is a simple as walking out your front door. Proper footwear is very important. Spend as much as you can afford on a good pair of shoes, as support and cushioning are very important to keep you from getting sidelined with an injury. Beginners, remember to start out slowly. Runners are not born overnight and doing too much too soon is another leading cause of injury. Give your body time to adapt to the new demands of a walking or jogging routine.
Another great way to get your cardio in is to take a group fitness class. Group fitness is very popular at many gyms. I think there are several reasons for this. First of all, group fitness classes are very motivating! The music, the people, the energy, the fun! Secondly, because you are being led through your workout, there is no need for you to plan what you're going to do that day. Thirdly, as long as you are taking a professional group fitness class, you know you are exercising correctly and getting a safe, effective, and thorough workout. What could be better than that?
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Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business-And Bad Medicine:
Title: Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business-And Bad Medicine:
Authors: Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
ISBN: 038550453
Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business-And Bad Medicine:The following review was contributed by:NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures:
REVIEW
Investigative reporters and the only journalists in history to be awarded two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele have presented a riveting exposé of the critical state of the health system in the United States with their book Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business-And Bad Medicine.
Beginning with the assertion that American health care has been transposed from one of compassion to a system motivated by profit- the authors present a distressing analysis as to what went wrong. Where forty-four million citizens do not have health insurance, and tens of millions more are underinsured. And yet there seems to be this enduring myth propagated by many that the USA has a "world- class health system."
As mentioned by the authors, the USA spends more on health care than any other nation, when you compare it to Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and Canada. However, in these countries citizens do not think twice about seeking care if they are ill. They do not worry who will foot the bills.
In the USA, it has become a lottery. If you are fortunate to be employed by a large company providing generous health benefits, you win. On the other hand, if you are self-employed or work for a small enterprise providing little or no coverage, you lose. You may even go bankrupt and lose your home in order to pay your medical bills.
Relying on interviews, studies from various organizations as the World Health Organization, the US department of Health and Human Services, legal suits, brokerage reports, congressional hearings, newspaper articles, magazine stories, SEC filings, professional journals, and a resevoir of many other sources (all of which are mentioned in the Notes section at the back of the book), the authors deliver legitimate arguments illustrating how an assortment of factors have crawled into the system with calamitous effects.
Broken down into six chapters, Barlett and Steele judiciously examine some of these elements as: rampant overcharging of patients who do not have insurance, dissuading people from purchasing drugs from Canada with false information concerning the Canadian pharmaceutical industry, caving into the demands of special interest groups, the non-existence of independent monitoring of diagnostic test results and hospital mistakes, permitting politicians and business people to assume key roles to the detriment of the welfare of the citizens, a culture of cronyism giving rise to blatant fraud in many instances, doctors having to deal with conditions apt to be found in undeveloped countries, peopled shuffled around by individuals who do not have the foggiest notion as to how to deal with them.
In addition, we are informed of how private enterprises connected with Wall Street financiers and Madison Avenue advertising firms have been permitted to join in as if health care was analogous to the selling of cars or MacDonald's franchises. As the authors rightfully ask: "Is this what health care in America has become?"
Although the authors portray a certain amount of cynicism, there is a glimmer of hope, as evidenced by the concluding chapter, wherein suggestions are offered as to how to revamp the ailing system.
However, the question lingers on. Will Americans reconsider their values, priorities, budgets and options and elect people, who will first and foremost take care of its citizens when it comes to health care? Something most civilized nations do.
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