01.06 Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Chase is easily winded during tennis practice and wants to focus on his cardiorespiratory fitness. Which activity should he eliminate from his exercise plan?

Lifting weights

Which activity is an example of a low-intensity cardio exercise?

Walking through the park

Strengthening the cardiovascular system is important to lifetime fitness because the heart

delivers important nutrients throughout your body

Alberto wants to improve his cardiorespiratory fitness levels, so he increases his eight-minute, one-mile run to a 1.10-mile run in the same amount of time. This principle is known as

intensity

The benefits of cardiovascular exercise include

reduced anxiety

Amy gained cardiovascular health benefits from running consistently over the past year. Now she runs inconsistently and has lost some of those health benefits. This principle is known as

reversibility