Endurance or cardiovascular activity

Endurance activities raise your heart rate, make you breathe faster, or may make you sweat. There are two levels of endurance activity. Moderate endurance activities like walking, yard work, house cleaning, or bicycling cause a slight-to-moderate increase in breathing or heart rate or may cause light sweating. More intense activities or vigorous activities, like aerobics or jogging, cause heavy sweating or large increases in breathing or heart rate.

We should aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate activity on most days of the week. You can get the 30 minutes of moderate activity all at once or in smaller segments of 10 minutes at a time. Even more benefits can be obtained by increasing the time you do the activity or by increasing the intensity of activity to vigorous.

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