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4. Endurance

5. Skill

Let’s take a look at each type.

Aerobic Fitness
One type of fitness is aerobic fitness. Aerobic

fitness produces what is known as the training

effect. Aerobic exercises are those that cause you to
breathe faster and your heart beat faster and last

longer than ten minutes. They cause a dramatic
increase in your heart rate. And those things go to

produce the training effect. That training effect

changes your body over time so that oxygen is
quickly brought to your muscles preventing fatigue

and enabling you to perform for hours. Aerobic

means with air. And oxygen is essential for our
muscles to work or even live. Aerobic exercises

would include these: running, walking (at a brisk
pace), basketball, soccer, swimming (at a brisk pace),

bicycling, vigorous dance classes, or aerobics

classes. Aerobic exercises would also include using
machines at gyms such as treadmills or stair

masters or exercise cycles. All these can cause you

to work at a high level and in excess of ten minutes,
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