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Aerobic conditioning increases the amount of physical activity that the body can endure . It benefits sports performance as well. [4] This type of conditioning can help with heart disease, diabetes, or anxiety. Aerobic conditioning also has many general benefits, such as improving mood, alleviating fatigue and stabilizing sleeping patterns. [22]
The premiere governing body is the American College of Sports Medicine. An exercise physiologist's area of study may include but is not limited to biochemistry , bioenergetics , cardiopulmonary function, hematology , biomechanics , skeletal muscle physiology, neuroendocrine function, and central and peripheral nervous system function.
Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, is physical exercise [1] of low to high intensity that depends primarily on the aerobic energy-generating process. [2] " Aerobic" is defined as "relating to, involving, or requiring oxygen", [ 3 ] and refers to the use of oxygen to meet energy demands during exercise via aerobic metabolism adequately. [ 4 ]
The findings were published December 10 in The British Journal of Sports Medicine. “We found that cardiorespiratory fitness — a measure of aerobic ... was associated with better performance ...
In a 2009 study published in the journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Wright and her colleagues measured the bone density of 560 senior athletes with an average age of 65.9.
Neuroplasticity is the process by which neurons adapt to a disturbance over time, and most often occurs in response to repeated exposure to stimuli. [27] Aerobic exercise increases the production of neurotrophic factors [note 1] (e.g., BDNF, IGF-1, VEGF) which mediate improvements in cognitive functions and various forms of memory by promoting blood vessel formation in the brain, adult ...
For instance aerobic endurance is necessary, in varying extents, in racket sports, football, rugby, martial arts, basketball and cricket. Endurance exercise tends to be popular with non-athletes for the purpose of increasing general fitness or burning more calories to increase weight loss potential.
Submaximal performance testing is a way of estimating either VO 2 max or "aerobic fitness" in sports medicine.The test protocols do not reach the maximum of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems.