As Men’s Health Month rolls to a close, this week’s column will focus once again on men’s health, specifically getting and staying fit. Cardiovascular exercise and strength training are two different, but equally important, forms of exercise.
Cardiovascular exercise, also called cardio or aerobics, is exercise that increases your heart rate and makes your lungs work harder than normal. More technically, cardiovascular exercise challenges both your cardiovascular and respiratory systems to increase the heart’s ability to pump blood and the lungs and heart’s ability to move oxygen throughout the body.
