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described in his book include these. The size of the

lungs will increase through use to supply the oxygen

your body demands. And the increased lung size
helps accomplish that. The blood vessels grow in

size and number. This enables your body to deliver

oxygen to the muscles, which prevents them and
you from fatiguing. Those same blood vessels also

remove metabolic waste products, preventing

fatigue. In addition to preventing fatigue, this helps
lower your blood pressure and helps prevent serious

problems such as strokes and heart attacks.

When you do aerobic exercise, you burn fuel,
which helps reduce your weight, and that too helps

prevent cardiovascular diseases such as heart

attacks and strokes. Keeping your weight within
normal range also helps prevent type 2 Diabetes.

There are many benefits.

Another training effect is that your resting
pulse rate will slow. A highly trained athlete can

have a resting pulse in the order of forty beats per

minute. And when I was training for marathon races
(26.2 miles) and running up to eighty miles per week,

my resting pulse was about forty beats per minute.

Because I still love exercise and work out every day,
my resting pulse is still close to that today (I’m age
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