subject: How To Get The Most Out Of Your Cardiovascular Training [print this page] Cardiovascular training has many benefits, including enhanced fat loss. Even better, it does a great job at increasing the health of your heart.
The bad news is that many weight loss hopefuls are not doing cardio the right way.
So here is how to get the most out of your cardiovascular training:
1. Avoid super long sessions: Whenever you go past the one hour mark, your body starts to break down excessively. Thus, it's in your best interest to keep your sessions short even if they are low intensity sessions. You don't want your body breaking down too much.
2. Don't do cardio with an empty stomach: This is absolutely horrible for your health in general and horrible for your weight loss efforts. Not only will you burn through precious calorie burning muscle, but you will also decrease the amount of fat you burn.
3. Do something you enjoy: Cardio counts as anything that gets your heart rate up. Thus, you don't have to spend your life in a gym running on a treadmill all week. You can do cardio outdoors or in any other situation where your heart rate remains elevated.
4. Implement progressions: The last thing you want is to do the same thing over and over again. You see, if you don't progress the difficulty of your cardio sessions, you will not be able to keep on getting results because you body will adapt.
5. Avoid the high intensity trap: You don't have to do high intensity cardio all the time. If you do this, you will not be able to recovery properly. Even worse, if you are concurrently doing resistance training, your body could become overwhelmed.
6. Never do cardio before weights: Not only is this dangerous, but it will also reduce the amount of fat you burn. You see, to maximize fat loss you have to lift weights with the highest levels of intensity. So avoid doing cardio before your resistance training.
The bad news is that cardio can set you back big time if done incorrectly. The good news is that if you take action here this is unlikely to happen!
