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exercise that makes your lungs write checks your legs have to cash.
means any process, biological or physical, that requires oxygen to produce energy, especially sustained exercise that keeps your heart rate up.
from from greek aer (air) plus bios (life) — coined in the 1880s by louis pasteur to describe bacteria that need oxygen to survive, long before jazzercise stole the word.
pasteur firstterm predates fitness culture by nearly a century
opposite existsanaerobic bacteria thrive without oxygen entirely
cellular levelmitochondria run aerobic respiration inside every cell
1968 rebranddr kenneth cooper popularized it as exercise term