good explinations all the way around fellas.

I was surprised that you mentioned basketball as an example of long duration cardio andrew. I suppose your referring to how basketball players train? I am not really familiar with their training techniques, but I've always found a few pick up games to be awesome for cardio, say a few games to 21 or something. your constantly sprinting back and forth, and its more fun then running around a track IMO.

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