24/10/2017
Some of the Best Cardio Workouts Are:
Walking – This is the easiest and safest way to start getting in your cardio.
Elliptical – Minimal impact on the knees and hips but calorie burning is still high. When you increase the incline you will activate more muscles.
Running – This one is easy to understand. Just remember if you train like a distance runner you will look like a distance runner. If you train like a sprinter you will develop a sprinters body. Steading running burns calories but sprints take it to the next level.
High Intensity Interval Training – Short intervals at maximum intensity followed by short periods of rest. Best all around workout that burns fat and calories.
Bike Riding or Cycling – Cycling uses large muscle groups in the legs and helps elevate your heart rate. This one is great you can do it inside or outside, with your kids, or even over the internet in your own home.
Stair Climber – Uses more muscles than walking.
Jumping Rope – Cheap, easy and burns tons of calories. If you remember doing this for hours as a kid you will be surprised at how exhausted you will get now.
Swimming – This is a total body workout as long as you are not just floating – even treading water burns calories. Swimming laps would be best and change up the strokes you use so that you work all different kinds of muscles and the continuous pace works your heart and lungs.
Rowing – Works both the upper and lower body and is low stress on joints and ligaments.
Circuit Training – When you work out at a high intensity the blood starts to pump a lot harder and that challenges the elasticity of the arterial wall.
If you want to not only work your heart but want to build muscle continue with your exercise routine and add in some weights.
