Cardio Training for Beginners

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Starting cardio exercise is essential for weight loss, burning fat, as well as healthy heart, but is never easy or in most cases scary. You don’t need to be scared, just take your workout slowly and steadily – sure you will win the race. For a successful cardio workout, start with easy ones and as you progresses, challenge yourself the more with every workout. If you feel dizzy or tired during the exercise, stop immediately and then call your doctor.

Here are some of the best cardio workouts for beginners you can try with or without equipment. All these workout are great, just rock the one you love most.

1. Outdoor workout

All that you need during outdoor workout is basic activities such as, walking, jumping, running or cycling. These are calorie burning exercises are very effective and helps heart rate soars which leads to more burning of calories. For achieving weight loss, do ensure to add some tough strength moves and enough intensity to your normal routine.

2. Low Impact Cardio

Low-impact cardio is a circuit-style and high-intensity workout is for the intermedia exerciser. This kind of exercise does require the participant to jump like an insane person or be on treadmill. No equipment is required for the workout though it’s effective on the heart and gentle on the joints. Low-impart cardio is performed for about one minute with no rest between the exercises.

3. High Intensity Aerobic Intervals

This is known as the best method to burn calories by incorporating interval training.  Aerobic intervals is effective as other workout, while it allows the participant stay in a comfortable place and still pushes you harder  out from your comfort zone. Any machine can be used to perform aerobic intervals, moderate-high intensity 4 to 5 minutes speed and then recovery level of 2 minutes.

4. 40-20 HIIT Workout

It’s absolutely recommended HIIT workouts for burning large quantity of calories. These involved different types of high impact workout including, sit and stands, burpees, and long jumps. It can be done for 40 seconds and 20 seconds rest in between.

5. Create Your Own Workout

In most cases, the best workout can be the ones you create for yourself at home. You can do any crazy style of cardio workout that best suite you and still see excellent results. Try all the methods for 2 minutes each before you proceed to the next.

Tips to help you perform better cardio workout

1. Choose the exercise that do not require any special skill, such as water aerobics, swimming, stair stepper and so on.
2. Provide quality shoes fit for the purpose.
3. Exercising excessively can cause injuries, so start slowly and intensify gradually.
4. Break up the workout in 10 minute segment until you can be able to perform 30 minutes moderate intensity at once.
5. When you feel tired, sore or dizzy, do not continue, stop immediately until you recover.
6. Three 10 to 20 minute cardio sessions the first few weeks is perfect, but increase after the following weeks.
7. Have fun, try new techniques, because doing the same thing often can be boring and make you lose focus.