Chapter 7 Cardiovascular Fitness

3. Caused by pressure of the blood on the artery wall, it corresponds to your heartbeat.
5. blood vessels located throughout your body that collect oxygen-poor blood and return it to your heart.
7. your heart rate should be 120 bpm within 5 minutes after the workout and be less than 100 bpm after 10 minutes.
11. muscular chamber that pumps blood out of the heart and into the circulatory system.
14. your heart rate should not exceed this.
15. with oxygen, involves activities that can be performed for at least 15 minutes without gasping to catch your breath.
16. your pulse just after you wake-up in the morning before getting out of the bed.

1. the measure of blood force against the walls of the arteries.
2. pair of spongy, pinkish-gray organs in your chest that you use to breathe in oxygen.
4. without oxygen, involves activities performed at a pace which uses oxygen faster than the body can replenish.
6. the main organ of your cardiovascular system.
8. the arterial passageway becomes smaller with this condition.
9. blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from your heart to all of your body's cells.
10. desired level of intensity for most people.
12. the largest blood vessel in the body
13. delicate blood vessels that exist throughout your body.