Is mountain climbing an aerobic exercise?

Mountaineering is a sport, and it is also an outdoor sport that is particularly beneficial to the body. It is good for our body and will when exercising. Now many friends like mountaineering very much, especially the feeling of blending into nature, which is a physical and mental feeling. However, when exercising, we must do it according to our own physical condition. So, is mountaineering an aerobic exercise? Let’s take a look at it together.

Aerobic exercise, as the name suggests, is exercise done in an aerobic metabolic state, which consumes excess body fat and achieves the goal of losing weight. Refers to 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.

Mountaineering has great benefits to the human body. From a medical point of view, it has direct benefits on five aspects: vision, cardiopulmonary function, limb coordination, consumption of excess body fat, and delaying human aging.

1. The simplest way to treat myopia is to look into the distance as hard as possible and relax the eye muscles. However, due to factors such as industrial pollution and urban heat island effect in cities, there are more suspended particles in the air and visibility is poor. In the mountains, especially on top of a mountain, you can look into the distance and relieve fatigue of your eye muscles.

2. The area of ​​virgin forests and grasslands in the mountains is far beyond the reach of green spaces and flowers in the city. Therefore, walking in the mountains is very beneficial for improving lung ventilation, increasing lung capacity, and improving lung function, while also enhancing the heart's contraction ability.

3. Mountain roads are bumpy and uneven. Walking through them is beneficial to improving the body's balance function and enhancing the coordination of the limbs, especially walking on non-step sections that have not been artificially modified. It can thicken the body's muscle fibers, develop muscles, and enhance limb flexibility.

4. People's daily sugar metabolism belongs to aerobic metabolism. Mountaineering activities, especially mountain climbing, due to the thin air, most of the body's metabolism is converted to anaerobic metabolism. In addition, mountaineering and camping activities involve a lot of exercise, and picnics in the mountains are often difficult to meet the body's calorie needs. Therefore, it can consume a large amount of accumulated fat tissue in the human body, especially the fat tissue in the waist and abdomen.

5. The normal metabolism of the human body produces a harmful substance called free radicals, which can damage human cell membranes, dissolve normal human cells, cause aging and even mutation of human tissues. Oxygen negative ions can effectively combine with free radicals and expel them from the body. According to relevant data, the unit content of negative oxygen ions on city streets is only 100 to 300, while it can reach tens of thousands in mountain forests. Therefore, walking and camping in the mountains can effectively eliminate harmful free radicals and help delay aging.

Through the above exercises, we know that mountaineering is an aerobic exercise, and it is an aerobic exercise that is particularly good for the body. However, what we need to pay attention to when doing mountaineering is safety, and we need to prepare our personal belongings when doing mountaineering. In addition, the shoes and clothes we wear should also be selected according to the characteristics of mountaineering.