It is a good thing to participate in this week 1 cardiovascular exercise and thanks to the steemit team for organizing this steemit learning challenge. Exercise as a whole makes us strong, healthy and keeps fit, though focusing on cardiovascular this week according to our our instructor.

What is cardiovascular exercises

Cardiovascular exercise are those activities that helps our heart to pump and beat faster there by increase the heart and pulse rate, it also improve the cardiovascular system and the body as a whole by breathing fast and sweating resulting in good health.

Why is it important

• It is important because the cardiovascular system is the engine room of the body because of the heart that is there and has to pump blood and circulate it to other systems of the body, so if the cardiovascular system does not function well or sick other systems of the body will not function or work well.

• Unlike some organs of the body that are two if one is not functioning well the other will compensate to reduce the work load until it begins to function again, the heart is only one do when it is not working the whole system will cease from working and this will results in death.

Programs that target the cardio

These are the exercise that helps in cardio
aerobic dancing, ridding bicycle, jumping, skipping rope, climbing stairs, rowing, mountain climbing, jumping jacks, burpees, squat jumps, swimming, jocking, walking, running etc.

How does it affect your overall wellbeing

• It helps to maintain both upper and lower body core and makes it tight

• It helps the heart to pump well

• It improves the heart and lungs muscles

• It improves body fitness

• It improves endurance and patience

• It cardiovascular fitness and normalize blood pressure.

• It burns calories

• It improves muscle tone

• It boost immunity, keeps one strong and healthy

• It makes the skin fresh

• Makes one younker than the actual age

• It helps in reducing weight

• It helps on reducing the incidence of obesity

• It reduces stress

• It helps one to sleep well

• It reduce the incidence of stroke

• It reduces boredom and monotony

Tasks

5 minutes video of the both running in place and aerobic dance programs

Programs	duration	rest period	repetition
Running in place	1 min	10 seconds	1 min
Aerobic dance	2 min, 50 sec	non stop	no rep