Cardiovascular training is an essential part of any fitness training process. Cardiovascular training, or CV training as it is also known, ensures that your heart, lungs and associated blood vessels are properly exercised and kept healthy and fit.

Your cardiovascular system, your heart, lungs, circulatory system, is like any other muscle and is essentially your body’s engine and it needs to be kept in good shape and it needs to be healthy in order for you to run and function properly.

An aspect of cardiovascular training is your resting heart rate, also known as HRH. The HRH is the number of times your heart beats within 60 seconds. Each beat is a single contraction of your heart as blood pumps around your body. The lower your resting heart rate is, the quicker your heart can pump blood, allowing you to know how strong your heart is.

The average HRH is around 72 beats every 60 seconds for an adult, but with proper cardiovascular training your HRH will decrease as your heart grows stronger.

There are numerous cardiovascular training methods that Millie builds into her classes or your very own personal training programme. The best types of training methods and exercises are those that use the largest muscle groups in your body and that require you to support your own bodyweight during your exercising sessions.