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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nnms" data-source="post: 7649875" data-attributes="member: 83293">If doing something winds you it's not because you have fitness shortcomings in the cardiovascular area, it's because the activity is beyond the muscles you are using and your body increases blood flow and then breathing in response.  For example, if you start running every day you'll find 90 days later that you have far more "endurance" for running that when you started, but the reason for this will be because of gains in your muscles on the outside of your skeleton more-so than any actual improvement in heart or lung performance.  There will be heart and lung performance improvements, but they'll be making a minor contribution to your overall ability to run.  At this point if you want the same exercise for your heart, you'll need to increase the intensity or the length of the exercise.  Or better yet, increase the intensity and then find another type of exercise for muscle groups you don't yet have developed whose use will get your heart racing again just like day 1 of the running.  I'd recommend adding body weight calisthenics.Basically separating fitness into categories is old science that's been outmoded.  The average person absent of medical conditions is already, for most definitions of the word, cardiovascularly fit.  Their heart and lungs are capable of supplying their body with oxygen well, well beyond what they use.  The thing that prevents them from meeting targets in a fitness test related to running, rowing or other "endurance" exercises is not a shortfall in the fitness of their cardiovascular system, but in the muscles actually used to perform the exercises.Instead of creating separate categories, people have found it's better to take a goal oriented approach that's a bit more holistic.  There are many health benefits related to increasing your heart rate on a regular basis.  If you can lift weights like a demon, but jogging winds you, then that might be a sign that you're not taking a whole body approach to fitness.  Same thing goes if you can run for miles but picking up a milk jug sends your pulse racing.</blockquote>

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