Aerobic exercises

Sound of labored breathing...
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Ricardo: Why is it?

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Juan: Why is what?

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Ricardo: That the more exercise I do, the weaker I seem to get. I’ve just finished five hundred presses and now, released of weights, my arms feel like pieces of string flapping in the wind.

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Juan: Five hundred press-ups?

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Ricardo: Not press-ups. Presses. Lying on my back.

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Juan: No! You’re joking! Lying on your back? That’s hardly aerobic!

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Ricardo: Hear my breathing? That’s aerobic!

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Voice-over

wikiHow press-up

Aerobic exercises may be short bursts of activity but more sustained aerobic exercises, like long distance running, and requiring a lot of heavy breathing are said to be good for heart health. Those who can do forty press-ups have a lower risk of sudden cardiac failure. Maybe Ricardo should stow the weights, turn over, and switch from presses to press-ups.

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Counting while exercising

Exercising in the park...

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Herbert: You’re in good shape.

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Warren: Well, I try. Out here every day.

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Herbert: What exercises do you do?

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Warren: My routine is 100 situps, 100 pressups and jogging for 30 minutes.

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Herbert: You ever lose count?

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Losing it?

Warren: Here’s the thing. I do count, but sometimes find myself skipping ten or twenty.

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Herbert: Hmm. Do you think that's losing the ability to count or is it just loss of attention?

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Voice-over

Some research suggests that the inability to do two things at once, like walking while counting backwards from 50, can reveal cognitive impairment like dementia.

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Dumb-bells

Phone rings at the gym...

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Hercule: Can’t talk now. I’m using weights.

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Sol: Ha! Curls or presses?

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Hercule: Bench presses.

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Sol: How many you done? Ten? Ha!

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Hercule: 650 every morning.

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Sol: You have a personal trainer?

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Hercule: Sure. She’s here now. Raisa Shyne. Telling me to get off the phone.

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Voice-over

Hercule is improving his upper body muscles to understand the strength needs of wheelchair athletes. He was impressed by a gymnast who was paralyzed waist down after a fall and became a Paralympian tennis sports champion.

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