Is mountain climbing an aerobic exercise?

In our daily lives, we face great pressure from competitive work in today's society. The working hours are usually long, and many people even have to work overtime for a long time after returning home at night. This poses a threat to everyone’s health. It also makes people gain weight and have excess fat. Doing some aerobic exercise is especially good for your body, so how about going hiking on the weekend? Is mountain climbing an aerobic exercise?

An endurance exercise in which the body's metabolism is mainly aerobic metabolism. Aerobic exercise can increase the body's oxygen uptake, enhance cardiopulmonary function, and is the best way to achieve health effects. Aerobic exercise includes walking (strolling, brisk walking), jogging, playing ball, swimming, climbing, cycling, aerobics, Tai Chi, etc. Aerobic exercise is characterized by low intensity, rhythm, uninterrupted and long duration. Compared with explosive non-aerobic exercises such as weightlifting, running, high jump, long jump, and throwing, aerobic exercise is a constant exercise that can last for more than 5 minutes with spare energy.

Mountain climbing is an aerobic exercise that can allow muscles to obtain 10 times more oxygen than usual, thereby increasing the protein in the blood, increasing the number of immune cells, enhancing immunity, and helping to excrete carcinogens, harmful substances, toxins, etc. from the body in a timely manner. While promoting metabolism, it also speeds up fat consumption, so mountain climbing also has a body shaping effect.

Persisting in mountain climbing, an exercise that enhances the endurance of the lower limbs, helps improve joint function and maintain coordination between muscles and motor organs. In addition, it can increase the mineral content in bones and reduce the occurrence of osteoporotic fractures. Improving local bone metabolism is beneficial to stimulating the growth of bone cells.

If you want to have a healthy body, you must keep moving. Exercise can show your vitality. We must not be in poor health at a young age. You should participate appropriately in sports such as hiking, playing ball, running, etc. Otherwise, if you don't exercise, your body's functions will gradually deteriorate. It is better to stick to aerobic exercise. Brisk walking, jogging, yoga, mountain climbing, etc. are all good.