America has an obesity problem. The National Institutes of Health estimates that two in five adults are overweight and one out of every three adults are obese. Though a healthy diet has the biggest ...

Aerobic exercise can include different activities like power walking, running, dancing, and jumping rope. These activities increase your heart rate and challenge your muscles, helping to improve ...

Over the years, people have invented all sorts of methods and ways to test aerobic fitness, from seeing who can perform the ...

A new study from Dartmouth College sheds light on how easy to moderate aerobic exercise affects the human mind differently than high-intensity workouts over a full calendar year. This ...

HERSHEY, Pa. — The 150 minutes of moderate to intense aerobic activity per week that is recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services can significantly reduce liver fat, according to ...

For people who don’t already exercise, short bursts of deliberate activity significantly improved cardiorespiratory fitness.

Adolescent athletes' cardiovascular system may adapt to increased cardiorespiratory fitness by increasing blood pressure, arterial stiffness and heart growth, a new study shows. The study was ...

Aerobic exercise, also known as cardio, "involves activities that use large muscle groups rhythmically and continuously, raising the heart and breathing rates," explains Gontang. He says that the word ...