Whoy Choose Aerobic Activity to Increase Oxygen Levels

One of the most important forms of movement is aerobic activity. Aerobic does not mean leaping or dancing in tights. The word aerobic means “motion that requires the use of air/oxygen”.

The aerobic cycle kicks in approximately 15 minutes into a sustained movement that is increasing your heart rate. These movements include such activities as going for a brisk walk, running, skating, and swimming or taking dance classes.

Aerobic Activity Aerobic exercise is also called cardiovascular or cardio exercise, because it conditions two of the most important muscles in the body: the heart and the lungs. If you regularly perform aerobic (cardio) activities, every function needed for your body to acquire oxygen operates more efficiently.


When you are performing aerobic-level activities, all of the organs, vessels and glands of the cardiovascular system adapt in a healthy way. They are stronger, more flexible, larger, smaller, or whatever is necessary to increase their efficiency.

The body?s most important nutrient is oxygen. Remember, you can go weeks without food (or can at least survive for weeks) and days without water, but you can only go a few minutes without oxygen. Exercise with air causes the body to take in and handle oxygen more efficiently.


You stay alive by taking oxygen in through the lungs. Real wellness, as always, embraces the body’s natural need for survival. Once the lungs have the oxygen, the heart and blood vessels pump it out to the rest of the organs. During aerobic activity, the body needs more oxygen than during inactivity, and it needs it faster than usual. That’s why, when you do cardio-type movements, you cause your body to adapt by increasing the efficiency of the lungs, heart, and blood vessels to take in, deliver, absorb, and store oxygen. In essence, you become a highly efficient oxygen-acquiring machine.


Health care professionals working from a health and wellness perspective always seek to put people on a safe, personalized, regular cardiovascular exercise program for the vital benefits of fat reduction and weight loss, improved oxygen levels, and enhanced cardiovascular performance. Regrettably, many well-meaning physicians will actually recommend avoiding exercise if people have cardiovascular challenges rather than create a beginning program that will work to create more aliveness.