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How To Lower Your Cholesterol with Exercise

Regular exercise can improve your cholesterol levels, lowering your LDL cholesterol and increasing your HDL cholesterol for improved heart health. Cholesterol is a lipid that circulates within our blood. While HDL cholesterol helps in the transport of lipids to the liver for disposal, LDL cholesterol can build up in the wall of our arteries and negatively affect our heart health. Research has shown that moderate-intensity aerobic exercise can increase good HDL cholesterol, high-intensity aerobic exercise can lower LDL and triglyceride levels, and moderate-intensity resistance workouts are effective in lowering cholesterol.

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