Cardio
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Starting a Cardio Workout Program
A cardio workout is good for your heart. Your heart is a muscle, and like all muscles, benefits and improves through exercise and training. Cardio workouts benefit your whole cardiovascular system. Plus, cardio workouts burn calories. In a cardio workout, your activity level increases your heart rate. A cardio workout is aerobic when it also increases your breathing and oxygen intake. If you're new to cardio workouts, let your body be your guide Read More... -
Cardio Workouts: Get In The Zone
You always need to be aware of your intensity level during a cardio workout. Getting into the aerobic zone is the key to both cardiovascular benefits and calorie burning. You will often hear about the "target zone" or "target heart rate"-this is a percentage increase over your normal pulse rate. To get a real cardio workout, you want to keep your pulse in the target zone for 20 minutes. A heart rate monitor you wear is the easiest way to keep tra Read More... -
Cardio Befoe Bed?
“I seem to be finding myself doing cardio before bed due to a hectic schedule and time constraints as of late. Are there any problems with this? Well there are a few good reasons not to cardio right before bed. My experience is that cardio near bedtime lowers the quality of my sleep significantly. It takes me forever to get to sleep if I do cardio within 1 to 2 hours of bedtime, and I'm more likely to wake up at night. Furthermore it seems a Read More...
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