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Aside from the warm-up and cool-down periods at the beginning and end of a typical Taekwondo class session of about one hour in length, part ofthe training is dedicated to exercises thatimprove your cardiovascular strength and endurance, and learning to mentally control your breathing rate - even while performing strenuous activities such as defending yourself.

Many segments of the daily training in Taekwondo involve aerobic movements that causes the heart to pump faster, and requires an increase in oxygen intake. When done ideally, these exercises produce a systemic effect (involving all the muscle groups), and is maintained at a moderately intense pace forat least 15 to 30 minutes. More intense burst of activity can also be used to rapidly increase the heart and breathing rates to a higher level for shorter periods of time (30 seconds to 1 minute). This will help to simulate a self defense scenario that might require maximum physical effort for a very short time to end a fight quickly.

For Taekwondo, the use of the legs in kicking, which involves the largest muscle groups in the human body, will be more demanding aerobically, and will raise the heart rate and increase the rate of breathing much sooner.

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