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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness
- Subject: Re: What's an aerobic exercise? What isn't?
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:15:07 GMT
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- In article <jamesp.722051687@bison> jamesp@cs.uwa.oz.au (James Pinakis) writes:
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- >What about people in stressful situations whose heart-rates are continuously
- >elevated (racing car drivers come to mind). Are they doing aerobic exercise?
- >If not, why?
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- Cecil Adams handled this one rather nicely in his "Straight Dope"
- book. Stress isn't aerobic exercise any more than drinking coffee is.
- Pulse rate is used during exercise because it is a simple, easily
- accessible gauge of how hard you are working and what percentage of
- your oxygen-processing capacity is being used. I think lung inflation
- and blood oxygen levels are also ways to measure this, but they are
- harder to check while jogging :-) Stress and coffee also raise your
- pulse but for different reasons (like altering blood chemistry)
- It's not the pulse that's important it's the exercise.
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