Cardiovascular Health
Cardiovascular health is a result of the strength of your heart, not it’s endurance ability. If you wanted to strengthen your leg muscles you would need to work them near your maximum whilst keeping fatigue as low as possible. The heart is no different, it is a muscle too. Endurance work can and does indeed provide work for your heart but after the initial weeks it no longer strengthens your heart, it merely wears it out.
A stronger heart is capable of pumping more blood in one stroke and thus has to beat less to circulate the same amount of blood. A stronger heart can also handle higher blood pressure experienced during exertion in the gym or on the toilet (where many people die each year of heart attacks due to increased blood pressure through straining - grim I know but true).
How does this translate to exercise; work up to near you maximum heart rate for a few minutes (3-10) and then let your heart rate return to normal, cool off and go home. How often, debatable but I would recommend 2-4 times per week. I have a healthy heart as shown by annual scans and I never workout that hard more than 3 times per week.
So if you don’t want to die on the toilet because all you ever did was endurance work then get working harder, not longer. Stay at high levels of intensity and get a strong heart.
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