Running 5 miles to build your cardio endurance and lung capacity? You may be barking up the wrong tree.

Which is better for developing your Heart muscle and Lung capacity as you age?

Cardio-vascular Endurance type Exercises or Short burst Intensive type Exercises? 

The former includes aerobics, jogging for miles or running on the treadmill for a long period of time.  Short intensive bursts, like the name suggests - is of much shorter duration - more intense followed by rests (work intensity up gradually through time with training). Dr Al Sears in the video below expounds his PACE training.

We advocate Bio Chi exercises which comprise of long, slow and deep abdominal & thoracic breathing, but at the intermediate levels - we have faster and more intense type movements that Dr Sears talk about. We will cover Bio Chi qigong exercise benefits in a later article.

Now, let's hear from Dr Al Sears. 

https://youtu.be/6eT57VReSc0