Terms
The ability of the body to do a physical activity over a period.
What is Cardiovascular endurance?
Heart
What organ is responsible for pumping blood around the body?
oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What are the two types of gasses that are involved with the cardiovascular system?
The circulatory and respiratory systems
What systems of the body are involved with cardiovascular training?
Arteries (away from the heart) and Veins ( to the heart).
What two essential kinds of blood vessels are involved with cardiovascular endurance?
Oxygen is used to help release energy from the nutrients you eat everyday.
How is oxygen used by the muscles of the body?
a range that defines the upper and lower limits of training intensities based on your heart rate.
What is a training zone?
Oxygenated blood for organs and muscles to use.
What is carried in the arteries?
It is a waste and poisonous substance that the body produces as it uses oxygen to release energy for the muscles and organs to work.
How is carbon dioxide produced?
Haemaglobin.
What is the name of the substance that allows oxygen to attach to a red blood cell?
deoxygenated blood from the organs and muscles
What is transported in the veins?
Alvioli air sac.
Where in the lungs are oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged?
VO2 max, 12 min cooper test, beep test, yo-yo test.
What types of test can you do to measure your cardiovascular endurance levels?
Capillaries
What is the name of the tiny and thin blood vessels that allow for an exchange of materials?
Diffusion.
What is the scientific term used to describe the movement of particles from an area of high concentration to its lowest?