 Hi, guys. This is Matt Posaka, personal training director at Meridian Fitness and Wellness in Brick. I wanted to talk today about some heart health, some different cardiovascular activities you can do to strengthen your heart, improve your cardiovascular endurance, and improve your overall fitness level to be a healthier person. Cardio equipment that's out on your floor at your local gym is going to be a great place to go. There's a lot of options there, but you can get creative with your workouts as well. Things like steps or plyo boxes hold a lot of options for cardiovascular training, and again, are going to work the body a little differently than your cardio machines will. Alicia's doing a step up here, but we're doing one leg at a time, a single leg movement, all right? She's got a good pace right now. If you want to just make sure we get a step up or even throw a little hop in there, there's a lot of different ways in this one movement to cardiovascularly work yourself. In this movement here, Alicia's going to be moving laterally, engaging some of the glutes a little bit more, again the quads, and getting her heart rate up by going back and forth over the step. Overall health is what we're going to look for as well as cardiovascular health, and this exercise is a great one to help you with that. Very popular step exercise that we see in group classes and on the floor when people are doing their training is taps on a step. A little quicker of a movement can be, you can slow it down based on your ability level, and it's one that can be performed pretty repetitively, so again, doing that movement over time to improve your cardiovascular health and get that heart rate up and maintain it at a higher level so you're burning a lot of calories. Before you start an exercise program, make sure you consult your physician to see if there's any contraindications that you should be aware of.