What's the difference between Aerobic and Anaerobic excercises?

[erikiksaz]

Our track coach keeps talking about working on Aerobic excercises on some days, and Anaerobic on others. What type of workouts is he talking about? And what's the difference between the two?

 

[glen]

With oxygen / without oxygen

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Aerobic exercise makes you breath hard while you are doing it, anaerobic makes you breath hard after you finish. Think running vs. bench press.

 

[Spendthrift]

an anaerobic exercise doesnt use oxygen. approximately the first 70ish meters of a 100 meter race is anaerobic. therefore aerobic trainging is only useful for the last 30m or so. on the other hand long distance running is almost entirely aerobic, so they train aerobically. training aerobically is basically using your muscles for extended periods of time which forces the body to circulate more oxygen through the bloodstream to keep them firing at the same rate.

or at least somthing along those lines. kinetics and human physiology people feel free to correct me or clear it up.

 

[Eli]

Doesen't it have something to do with your heart rate? lol.. Like, being above xxx beats per minute for at least 20 minutes?

 

[erikiksaz]

Ahh, so that's why we're doing anaerobic 40 meter sprints tomorrow.... I see i see.

 

[glen]

It has to do weather your source of energy is from the Krebs cycle or the alcohol cycle..heck I forgot.