America has an obesity problem. The National Institutes of Health estimates that two in five adults are overweight and one out of every three adults are obese. Though a healthy diet has the biggest ...

Chances are that if you’re not a competitive endurance athlete, you’re probably not that concerned about your aerobic or anaerobic status during training. You may not even know the difference between ...

Both cycling and walking are excellent, relatively convenient forms of aerobic exercise. While both burn calories, bicycling typically burns more calories than walking when both are done on flat ...

“I highly encourage all my patients to do some form of exercise," says physical therapist Jan Richardson, PT, PhD, OCS, an emeritus professor at Duke University School of Medicine. If you don't ...

To test aerobic fitness, Matlock suggests running a one-mile time trial, which means doing a mile at an all-out effort.

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Exercising is one of the best ways to keep your heart healthy and reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease, which causes 25% of deaths among Americans each year. At the same time, skipping exercise ...

Hypertension is a cardiovascular risk factor of outstanding importance and accounts for ∼50% of vascular risk. 1 For decades the individual’s mean or ‘usual’ blood pressure was regarded as the main ...

On practically every “types of aerobic exercise” list, cycling is one of the primary examples. And for good reason: Cycling ...

Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, "involves activities that use large muscle groups rhythmically and continuously, raising the heart and breathing rates," explains Gontang. He says that the word ...