Warning: You want to AVOID the typical mistake that most exercise enthusiasts make, and that's doing 1 - 2 hours or more of
slow cardio exercise per day (and for the running or biking enthusiasts, this includes jogging or distance biking for more than 30 - 60 minutes a day)... these types of excessively long cardio routines increase the rate of aging in your body, and detrimentally affect your hormones, making fat loss harder.
I also notice that most women (and a lot of guys too) spend way too much time with
slow cardio exercise.
Not exact matches
Knowing that I had Max Recovery last night for Insanity — which is a lot of
slow moving muscle building
exercises, no
cardio, I decided to run a 5k at lunch.
We need it for long and
slow exercise, such as walking, biking, or gardening, we definitely need it for intense workouts like weight lifting, and high intensity
cardio classes, and it's a must for long endurance sports, such as long distance running.
The long,
slow and boring
cardio group
exercised TWICE as long (40 minutes per workout).
Now
slow cardio does have its place in a well structure fat loss plan and can be great to do as an extra workout per day but If you want to see results from your home workouts, you need to utilize a full body workout, adding as many compound
exercises as possible (The kind of workouts you will find here).
In part 1, we showed you that folks are giving up on long,
slow cardio workouts and switching to short, burst
exercise sessions that include group training, challenge - type workouts you do on a weekly basis, and fat burning athlete workouts.
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The
slow cardio group
exercised for 40 minutes and the interval group
exercised for only 20 minutes.
The calorie burn from any type of long,
slow,
cardio exercise program is not that impressive.
While
slow and steady cardiovascular
exercises such as treadmill and jogging are great for improving health, short and high intensity
cardio such as jump rope, burpee and stairmaster are proven effective for losing weight and burning calories and fat.
This is why people are able to get results with
slow, steady - state
cardio — because the majority of the calories are burned during
exercise.
The most common type of
exercise is long,
slow cardio, and it is shown to increase cortisol production by the adrenal glands.
Based on my experience I found that for me the best type of
exercise was time Under tension workout (TUT) and
slow cardio like walking and light jogging.
Yes
cardio is the best form of
exercise to burn fat but if you only do
cardio you will not just be losing fat but lean muscle as well (lean muscle will be used as fuel if you do prolonged periods of
cardio) and this will
slow your metabolism down.
If you are looking for the simplest, most effective way to reach the right body composition for you, follow a healthy diet, do some weight lifting and choose which type of cardiovascular
exercise you prefer — short, intense intervals or long,
slow cardio — because either will help produce changes in body composition
No matter how
slow your metabolism is you can make a huge difference to the speed by eating correctly and doing weight training &
cardio exercise.