Improve your cardio as you age into your 40's, 50's, 60's and beyond

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Cardiovascular fitness is the ability of the heart, blood cells and lungs to supply oxygen to our working muscles. Whether we are walking up the stairs or in the gym working to build even more muscle, we need a certain level of cardiovascular fitness.

having good cardio also helps to reduce high blood pressure, the odds of developing coronary heart disease, the risk of heart attack and stroke, as well as the incidence of diabetes. All things we have a greater risk of suffering from as we get olderr. Not to mention it helps to lower body fat and resting heart rate while increasing our energy levels and providing us with greater resistance to illness. So tell me again why you don't like cardio?

One of the challenges we have when it comes to cardio as we age is or maximum heart rate goes down as we age and along with it our VO2 max. The only way we can compensate for this is by increasing our heart stroke volume.

But first we need to start by increasing the level of activity in our lives. Then on top of this we need to add in some progressive cardiovascular training into the mix. You can start with as little as 10 minutes a day and slowly work your way up to 30 mins. With the goal of being able to do 30 minutes steady of at a heart rate between 65 and 75 percent of your max heart rate. After that you can switch your focus to HIIT training.