It is very important for a healthy heart, weight loss or even weight management. When you exercise regularly, you can increase your cardiovascular fitness as your heart becomes more efficient at pumping blood and oxygen to the body. It is easy to begin doing cardio. Here are some steps to follow below:
- It is very important to choose an activity that you enjoy. If you do not enjoy doing it, chances are you will never do it. Walking is a great place to start because its part of your everyday routine. To intensify it - try pumping your arms while speed walking indoors or outdoors. Once you are comfortable with walking at a higher pace, you might want to switch it up by swimming, elliptical, spinning or step aerobics.
- Try starting off with 2 or 3 days a week and see how you do. Make sure to have rest days in between. It is very important not to overdue it especially in the beginning.
- Start with a warm-up, 5 minutes is usually good enough.
- Your heart rate will gradually increase as you pick up the pace. Make sure to breathe!! This will not be comfortable for you and you will want to stop or slow down, but in order to successfully do cardio..you must push through the pain!
- At the beginning, you may only be able to exercise for a few minutes at a time and that is okay because it will change quickly.
- You must always end your workout with a Cool Down. It usually is about 5 minutes long , make sure to decrease your speed and incline and take deep breathes.
Some tips are below:
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