BENEFITS OF CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING

Cardiovascular exercise causes your lungs to breathe less often.

False

The muscles around your lungs are made stronger as you do regular cardiovascular exercise.

True

Match the phrase with the term. How hard the blood pushes on the inside of the blood vessels is called . The total amount of blood the heart pumps in one minute is called . When blood vessels open wider during exercise, they are said to . How many times your heart beats in one minute is called . The force that can put unhealthy tension on the heart as it is pumping is called . The amount of blood the heart pumps out in one beat is called

blood pressure cardiac output dilate heart rate blood pressure stroke volume

The body system that most influences your blood pressure is the

blood vessels

Choose all the answers that apply. It's important to do cardiovascular exercise on a regular basis because it _____.

improves your heart's stroke volume helps you lose weight lowers your blood pressure

stroke volume

the amount of blood that the heart can pump in a single beat

blood pressure

the force exerted on the walls of the blood vessels by the blood that moves through them

heart rate

the number of times your heart beats in a minute

cardiac output

the total amount of blood the heart pumps in one minute

dilate

to widen or get larger in size