Saturday, February 4, 2012

What Is Cardio And How Do You Do It Right For Maximum Weight Loss?

Cardiovascular exercising or "cardio," is exercising in an attempt to increase your heart rate and stay healthy. Cardio is just basic exercising in order to stay active, fit and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Many individuals have different goals for performing cardio workouts, but the main overall goal for many is to lose weight.

The reason being that cardio is the main way to lose fat as you are burning calories, which in turn burns fat off your body through sweat. Yes, cardio is huge for anyone seeking to lose weight fast, but the problem is that many individuals don't know how to do it right or what to even do.

Therefore I decided to give you an idea of what your cardio workouts should look like if you're goal is to lose a large amount of fat as fast as you can. Before we get into how to do it, let's look at some exercises you should be doing, so you have a clear vision of what cardio is.

 

What Is Cardiovascular Exercising

Cardio is the attempt to increase your heart rate and maintain a healthy lifestyle through high-interval aerobic workouts.

 

The list of Cardio Exercises goes on and on but here are a few examples of what Cardio exercises are:

-Basic jogging on a treadmill or going on long, steady runs

-Kickboxing at high intervals

-Jump roping constantly without stopping for breaks

-Trampolining and continuously jumping for increased heart rate

-Bicycling for long distances and steep hills for harder work

Now these are just a few examples off the top of my head, but like I said the list goes on, and you can develop your personal cardio workout however you'd like to because there's no set way to perform cardio. The basic concept is that no matter what you do, you have to be sure you do it right and go as long as you can without stopping. By doing this, you'll have a constant increased heart rate, maximized results, and faster weight loss through calorie burning.

 

High Intensity Intervals Are Required For Optimal Results

You may have heard of high interval training before, but if you haven't, let me explain. High interval training is when you give your complete effort during cardio workouts and cut down your exercise time because you really pushed yourself to your absolute limit. The basic concept of high intensity training is that you're switching up complete and total effort for maintained recovery time.

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