Often I have been accused of being anti-cardio, so I want to take some time to discuss cardio training.Hopefully, you’ll will think differently and try some new things after reading this article. These are some ways how to lose weight fast without traditional cardio.
We need to discuss whether cardio training is really necessary to be lean and in good shape.You come to see that I am not against cardio as long as it’s done properly and has its proper place.
It’s not surprising that many people believe that the necessity of cardio exercise for weight loss and fitness is a fact. In fact, most people won’t even question it. Here, I will not only question it, but I will refute it.
The people I have known that are in the best shape don’t do any traditional cardio. While there might be some room for some low-level cardio for people who are really out of shape and overweight, there are even better approaches for them. One thing is that they should also get healthy foods to eat.
Many people think that cardio as endless bouts with the exercise bike or treadmill. This is what I call the traditional form of cardio that really does not produce results.
Looking at it a different way, cardio is really anything that boosts your cardiovascular health.
If it gets your heart rate up and you’re out of breath, then it’s cardio, even if it involves weight training.Consider an exercise where you lift the barbell to your shoulders then push it up over your head. Incidentally, women need to realize that this is not just a man’s exercise: this can help you too.
Anyway most people think of this barbell exercise as something for strength or weight training. In reality, after you do about 10 or 15 of these with a decent amount of weight your heart rate will be up close to your maximum as if you had just sprinted. Then try to do the same thing with one arm swings or snatches with a dumbbell, then tell me your heart is not racing and you’re not out of breath.
So it’s easy to see that the exercises people call weight training are actually good for cardio too. This not only saves you workout time, but it strengthens your entire body if you do them with intensity.In reality you’re not going to get results from exercises that you can do while you’re reading or watching TV. My challenge for you is to give up the traditional cardio for a couple months and start exercising your entire body with weights.
Before long you be losing belly fat in your six pack will be showing through.
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Very interesting read. I do believe Cardio to be the best form of exercize though!