Want to use aerobic exercise to keep healthy? So did I, and so do I! But when I first came upon the idea of aerobic exercise the only option was jogging, although I think ‘aerobics’ or really aerobic dancing was just coming in. Not for me. So I joined the band of people who went around jogging up and down the road.

I learned that you needed to exercise every other day from the original exponents of the idea of aerobic exercise, and so that’s what I did. I used to be quite good at doing it every couple of days, except when travelling on business or on holiday.

Jogging for aerobics for a while –

Then I stopped doing it for a while, and took it up when I realised I was getting out of shape. Eventually, I got fed up with jogging. It is not much fun. Now if you are a really long distance runner, you get a kick from running – it’s a natural high. But I can’t say I got that.

Then, I heard that you can damage your joints, especially the knees, with too much jogging on concrete, so I gave it up – except at times of stress when I found the exercise helped calm me down! Of course, if you can jog on grass or heathland that will be OK, especially if you don’t do it too much.

Then I started swimming regularly

Later I tried swimming. Swimming is one of the best forms of exercise you can take, as it exercises nearly every muscle in the body – and is definitely aerobic. I found I soon got bored with pounding up and down the pool, probably because I am not a good swimmer and use too much energy doing it.

So I gave that up, too! Next came cycling, and when I started I was living in a very hilly area, so you could not go more that a mile without coming to a steep hill and getting your heart beat up suitably. Despite those hills I enjoyed cycling – always have I suppose, ever since my first proper bike gave me some real freedom at thirteen years old.

So now I cycle every two days. Although it is fairly flat where I live there just enough hills for this to qualify as aerobic exercise. I enjoy it, and it keeps me fit. Of course you need some other exercise as well – and this can be walking occasional swimming or whatever.

So, to keep fit do some aerobic exercise. Try one you think you will enjoy, and if that doesn’t work, try another. Cycling, power walking – preferably in a hilly area – jogging, swimming, roller blading, many sports and lots of other forms of exercise qualify as aerobic. The minimum according to the experts is that you exercise for eight minutes with your heart beat up about 40%. You can achieve the same result with a lower increase for a longer period, so choose something that you enjoy as your form of aerobic exercise.

About The Author

John Hartley is a business writer who has always enjoyed sports and exercise. He cycles regularly wherever his business takes him, and runs the web site, http://www.best-aerobic-exercise.com, where you can find plenty of information about aerobic exercise.

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Elevated heart rate during aerobic exercise?

my heart rate for the last couple of years has been 120 on the bike at the gym. the most i was ever to elevate it to was 130 by putting on tension. running my heart rate is around 150 to 165. now all of a sudden my heart rate is 150 on the bike when i hardly exert any effort. what is going on? I recently had vertigo from sinus and inner ear. my ekg and blood tests for heart are all normal range.

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Fat burning exercises almost always fall under the aerobic category, meaning that you’re going to be doing an exercise that involves lots of movement for a prolonged period of time and, as such, you’d better find something you really like doing if your goal is to burn fat.

I know lots of women (and some men) who like to do straight step-directed aerobic exercises, but those kind have never been for me. I think it’s the whole judgment factor involved in aerobics rooms that turn me off, or maybe that I don’t now own, nor never do I plan on owning, a tacky bright nylon jumpsuit, and simultaneously feel uncomfortable and under-dressed when I show up to them in boring gray sweatpants and a tee-shirt.

For the last four years, I’ve spent quite a bit of time on a bike. I’m talking about realy biking, though, not your stroll-through-the-park, leisure variety of riding. When I ride, it’s fast, and for long hours, and usually involves dodging cars during rush hour. If that’s not for you, I understand.

More and more cities are becoming more bike-friendly, with bike lanes in most major metropolitan areas that, if the citizens of a particular area aren’t yet used to maneuvering, will be by the beginning of the next decade as the use of cars for day-to-day travel becomes more expensive.

Bike riding’s only downside, of course, is that some areas of the country are simply not built for easy bike -riding and, as such, those of you who want to get your aerobic, fat burning exercises on a bike will have to do so on a machine. Until that time that every city in the US has caught up with the Europeans’ good sense when it comes to biking, then, plug your ipod in when you go, making sure to avoid eye contact as you pass the body builders who will invariably be comparing the definition of your legs to theirs as you pass.

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