Does aerobic or anaerobic exercise provide the most effective means of promoting cardiovascular health?
This review aims to elaborate on the differences between aerobic and anaerobic exercise and their respective effectiveness in promoting cardiovascular health.
Physical exercise is one of the most effective methods to help prevent cardiovascular (CV) disease and to promote CV health. Aerobic and anaerobic exercises are two types of exercise that differ based on the intensity, interval and types of muscle fibers incorporated. In this article, we aim to further elaborate on these two categories of physical exercise and to help decipher which provides the most effective means of promoting CV health.
Patel et al. (Sun,) studied this question.