You don’t have to have fancy equipment to do cardio workouts!
Here are some you can try.
STEP-UP and SKIP
You need:
- a box (shower stool or anything stable that is around 10inches/25cm high.
- a skipping rope
Cardio Workouts You Can Do At Home
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Interval Training- What Is It?
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You may have tried Interval Training or it may be completely new to you. What exactly IS it?
Imagine sprinting at your top speed for 1 minute. It’s pretty difficult! Imagine if you could give your body the benefit of that level of workout intensity.
Interval helps you do just that. Try sprinting for 10 seconds, 20 seconds rest, then do it all over again. You’ve just sprinted 20 seconds at top speed.
What if you repeated the ’sprint-rest interval’ 4 times ? That would give you the benefit of 40 seconds of full on intensity.
Fat-Burning Zone?
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Most cardio equipment at the gym has a program for ‘fat burning’ or ‘cardio’. Have you ever tried it? The ‘Fat-burning’ zone is NOT the best way to burn fat! How come?
The theory is that when your heart-rate is in ‘the zone’ the body burns fat as its fuel. True to a point. But you’d have to work ‘in the zone’ for so long it isn’t funny ! Nor is it efficient at really burning fat. You are better to go as hard out as you can and burn more calories per workout. As a result the amount of actual fat burned is greater.
Imagine this: …
