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Improving aerobic fitness
Improving aerobic fitness

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Improving aerobic fitness

Improving aerobic fitness

Introduction

Aerobic fitness is important for sports performance and health, but what sort of exercise should you be doing to develop your aerobic fitness? This course will help you to answer this question by introducing you to principles of aerobic exercise prescription.

This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Sport [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] . You might be particularly interested in the Open University course E117 Introduction to sport and fitness.

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