Cardio Tips

Making Your Cardio Count!

How much time do you have?  People often put off doing cardio because they think about how long it is going to take for them to complete a cardio workout!   The best way to plan to do cardio is to determine how much time you have to devote to the activity.  Make the decision that opting out of exercise is not an option, and then determine how much time you have to devote to the activity. Often times, if I know that I only have twenty or thirty min of time for cardio, then I determine what is the hardest, most calorie burning activity I can do in that short amount of time.  Maybe I only have twenty minutes so I will do intervals around the track.  Find something appropriate for your body, and make it difficult!  Our bodies change based on pushing thresholds, not on getting on the trainer with our magazine in hand hoping that the time passes by quickly.

It is not how much you do that is going to make the biggest difference, but what you are doing in the time you have that will show the greatest gains.