Intermediate Cardio
Exercise
Boost Your Cardio Intensity To Achieve Greater Success!
Are you tired of your old and plain cardio routine and feel
the need to spice up your aerobic exercises but do not know
where to start? If you have been doing cardio exercises for
quite some time now, it is time for you to move on to cardio
exercises with higher intensity.
No doubt, circuit training is a great way to help you to
shed the unwanted pounds but it is also very challenging.
Together with cardio, it can be the spice in the workout program
that will surely fire up your interest and make working out
a lot more fun again.
Circuit training involves a lot of high intensity movements
which will skyrocket your metabolism hence resulting in bigger
caloric loss. Expect your heart to be pulsing more than before
because circuit training and cardio will work to increase
your heart rate up to 90% its maximum rate. Apart from that,
you will find increased upper and lower body coordination
and improved overall strength.
However, take not that circuit training is not suitable for
sedentary people and high blood pressure patients.
Another great high-intensity workout that can be combined
with normal pace cardio exercise is the HOC or high octane
cardio.
It has been proven that high octane cardio is a very effective
way to build up cardio and muscular endurance. It also works
magically to combat fat due to its unique combination of weight
training with aerobic exercise. Jogging or jump roping combined
with dumbbell swings and dumbbell snatches has been proven
to be a whole lot better than just doing one type of exercise.
Not only will you get a trimmer and leaner body but you will
also be rewarded with increased strength and resistance.
HOC beginners can make use of his regular jogging routine
as a jumpstart and adding ballistic dumbbell exercises to
add the weights to his cardio. Remember, HOC is cardio plus
weights. It would probably be a better idea to jog on a track
unless you can get your girlfriend or boyfriend to assist
you since you really cannot leave dumbbells lying around the
sidewalks. So the idea for a beginner HOC workout is to use
two dumbbells and leave them at opposite ends of the track,
once you get to the dumbbells, stop jogging and start doing
ballistic exercise for about 10 counts for each arm. You are
to repeat the HOC for about 3-4 laps or the equivalent of
one mile.
For a beginner, four to six weeks of the HOC program should
be enough to prepare you for the advanced HOC workout. Generally,
it is the same idea, but adding to more dumbbells adds intensity
to the exercise. Like what have you done in the first phase,
do four laps or the equivalent of one mile & stop at every
dumbbell to do dumbbell exercises before jogging again.
A good combination of cardio and weight lifting will tone
your body and give you the desired body you have always wanted.
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