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The body is an amazing tool, but like anything else if it is not kept fine-tuned it will begin to lose its luster. So what you have to do is every day for at least thirty minutes get some cardio exercise.
About one out of every two billion or so people are going to live to be over the age of 110 years old, and you can bet these people are going to be the ones that are getting some sort of cardio exercise. It is likely you won't live that long at all, maybe if you have above average luck and you take good care of yourself you can hit a hundred, maybe.
A great way to work out your cardio is by activating large muscle groups in your body. This is easily achieved by switching between multiple different workouts, or you can just walk and that will cause you to use 200 hundred different muscles, of which 50 of those will be used to actually lift your legs and create the locomotion.
Jogging, running, walking, all of these are extremely effective because the muscle groups are so massive. The largest muscles in your body are all in your legs, and working large muscles and large muscle groups is exactly what you want to do.
Some people are confused as to why exercise is interconnected with the respiratory system. Oxygen is one of the key components in a substance called ATP (adenosine triphosphate) which is responsible for making electricity in the cells.
ATP is the actual substance that is energy, so without oxygen being fed to your muscles you would not be able to use any of the muscles you have no matter how big they are. The heart is responsible for sending oxygen throughout the blood to those aforementioned muscles, when the muscles need more oxygen there is an electronic pulse shot to the brain at 375 miles per second which then passes the signal to the heart which causes an increased heart rate to pump oxygen faster and harder.
Often you will fill light headed after a particularly good workout, this is because you have taken all the oxygen from the brain and it has been used for the muscles. If you want to start extending your life by way of exercise, it is not going to be the muscle building that will help you, but rather the cardio exercise.
Go run around your block or up a mountain side, find ways to make your running entertaining. Good luck and enjoy your longevity. Destry Masterson is an author who has written hundreds of articles. She publishes articles for http://www.nordictrack.com and recommends them for treadmills.
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