Exercise for weight loss doesn't have to be complicated. A number of simple types of cardio exercise will contribute to a fast-paced calorie burn and lead to a number of overall health benefits. nike running shoes Walking is a suitable activity for people new to working out; even the most amateur fitness buff should know how to take a walk. Other simple cardio exercises include increasing your walking pace to a light jog, riding a bicycle or dancing around your home.

Keep Your Strength Training Simple

For a beginner, visiting a gym and seeing a weight machine's handles and pulleys can be daunting. Instead of getting overwhelmed, strength train by lifting weights or performing simple body-weight exercises. Pushups, for example, can strengthen your pecs, while crunches and squats will build your abs and quads, respectively. cheap nike air max 95 Curl a dumbbell to strengthen your biceps, shrug a barbell to target your traps or hold a medicine ball against your chest to elevate the challenge of a set of situps. Always train your major muscle groups evenly to avoid building an off-balance body.

Get Together with Friends

One of the best ways to get exercise without feeling as though you're working out is by enjoying the activity. Exercising with friends is a social experience that can quickly make you forget that you're improving your health. Find some other fitness novices and play team sports such as basketball, soccer, softball, volleyball and flag football. Each sport provides a cardiovascular workout and strengthens your body. Individual activities to consider include hiking, inline skating and yoga; many yoga studios offer classes for those who are completely new to the practice.

Know Your Fitness Targets

Taking a short walk once per week might be drastically increasing your typical amount of exercise, but it's not enough for ideal fitness. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults should strength train at least twice a week and devote around 150 minutes to cardio exercise every week. Together, nike air max thea uk both types of workout create a well-rounded fitness routine. If your previously inactive lifestyle has become a habit, find time for exercise by getting up 30 minutes earlier each morning or involving your family and friends in your new workouts.

Plié squat biceps curl and high knees: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and a dumbbell in each hand. Keeping your body weight in your heels, adidas football boots lower your glutes until your thighs are parallel with the ground, simultaneously curling the weight toward your shoulder. Repeat for 60 seconds. Rest for 30 seconds before doing 60 seconds of high knees as fast as you can. Repeat sequence for four sets.

Minutes 11 to 20

Single leg deadlift and jumping jacks: Stand on your right leg with a dumbbell in each hand. Hinge forward on your hips, extending your left leg back until your body and leg are parallel with the floor and your arms are straight in front of your shoulders. Hinge upward on your hips so that you are standing again, bringing your leg down and the weight to your sides. Repeat for 60 seconds. cheap adidas football boots Rest for 30 seconds before doing 60 seconds of jumping jacks. Repeat sequence for two sets on each leg.

Minutes 21 to 30

Bent-over row and mountain climbers: Start with your feet shoulder-width apart, slightly bending your knees. Bend forward, holding a dumbbell in each hand with your palms facing. Pull the weight toward your body, stopping when the dumbbells are beside your stomach. Lower the weight and repeat for 60 seconds. Rest 30 seconds before doing mountain climbers for 60 seconds. For mountain climbers, start at the top of a pushup with your hands below your shoulders and your right knee below your chest. Keep your hands on the floor, and jump with your lower body to switch legs, bringing your left knee forward and extending your right leg. Repeat as fast as you can for 60 seconds and repeat entire sequence for four sets.

Tips and Safety

Don’t lock your joints at any time during the routine, adidas adizero boots and keep you core tight and your back straight. Have a bottle of water handy and drink a few sips during the 30 second rest period. Warm up and stretch before you start the routine and stretch when you’re finished. If you can’t complete all four sets with your starting form, lower the weight.

Dips target the triceps, and biceps curls work the biceps, but that’s not all of the affected muscle groups. Both exercises work secondary muscle groups using standard form, nike flyknit and with variations, you can expand the scope of targeted muscle groups. In addition to the triceps, standard dips work the lower and outer pectorals, the obliques, the posterior deltoids and the forearms. Standing barbell biceps curls work the biceps, the anterior deltoids, the traps, the lats and the upper support muscles around your core.

Sets and Reps

Biceps curls allow you a wide latitude for structuring your sets and reps, since the concentric free-weight exercise allows you to easily increase or decrease weight for the targeted muscles. nike flyknit uk Dips are an isometric exercise that limits you to your own body weight for every rep. To achieve gains doing standard dips, you’ll have to simply increase the number of reps you do, and the number of sets in which you do them. For biceps curls, you can use a pyramid rep structure to build mass, you can use standard flat sets for a balanced strength/endurance approach, or you can combine a set of 12 curls with a set of 12 dips in quick succession for a muscle-confusing super-set workout.

Variations

The biggest challenge to long-term weight training is that your body adjusts to even the toughest workout. Adjust the standard forms of dips and biceps curls every few weeks to continue achieving performance gains, and to expand the secondary muscles worked in each exercise. For example, leaning forward while performing dips will place greater stress on the lower chest and upper abs, while still giving the triceps a good workout. You can also attach a free-weight plate to a rope tied around your waist and do weighted dips for increased difficulty. For biceps curls, use a wider grip to work more of your traps and lats, or narrow the grip to concentrate on the middle portion of the biceps. Use an EZ-Grip barbell to reduce wrist fatigue, or use dumbbells instead of a barbell to work more stabilizer muscles.

Considerations

If you’re engaged in a split routine schedule for weight training, you'll usually perform dips and biceps curls on different days, as each exercise can be grouped seamlessly into routines targeting different muscles. Triceps dips are best when grouped with shoulder and chest workouts, while biceps curls are best when paired with back and core workouts. However, the two exercises can be effective together when you do supersets, nike free 3.0 flyknit which work opposing muscle groups, or when you do full-body training sessions. For a full-body training session, work your muscles from large to small. Do your triceps work first, then your biceps.

How to Work Out on an Arc Trainer
The arc trainer's resistance levels change how fast you pedal the machine. nike football boots The resistance controls the amount of force that you push against as you exercise. Most arc trainers have resistance levels between zero and 60. Select a resistance level that allows you to exercise at a steady state between 30 and 60 minutes. At the end of your workout, you should feel fatigued, so avoid selecting a resistance level that is too easy. You can vary the resistance level as you exercise to create an interval workout. For example, exercise for two minutes at a light resistance of 15 and then exercise for one minute at a heavy resistance between 50 and 60 before returning to a level 15 resistance.



The resistance isn't the only variable on an arc trainer. The incline level of the arc trainer also changes the intensity of your workout. Most trainers have 21 incline levels. The crescent-shaped movement of your legs in the pedals gets more intense the higher you place the incline. nike mercurial uk Leave the incline at one level throughout your 30- to 60-minute session or increase and decrease the inclines to create intervals. For example, exercise for two minutes at an incline between zero and three and then exercise for one minute at an incline of seven to 10 before returning the incline between zero and three.

Pre-Set Modes

If you do not want to think about changing the resistance or incline, which is known as manual mode, and just want to get on the machine and go, select one of the pre-set workouts on the arc trainer. Different models of the arc trainer offer varying workout modes, but most include pre-set workout options such as weight-loss, strength-training, cardio and power. You input the maximum pace, resistance and incline and the machine create an interval workout based on your weight-loss, strength, cardio and power goals. Some of the arc trainers have movable handrails. When possible, if it doesn't feel too taxing, use the movable handrails to burn more calories and increase the workout's intensity.

Cardio Workouts

When 30 to 60 minutes at a time is too much exercise, begin with 10 minutes and aim to use the arc trainer three times a day. Gradually increase your duration until you are able to maintain your workout for at least 30 minutes. Once you are able to perform a workout at a steady state, with no change in the resistance or incline, add intervals to increase your endurance. Start with small changes in the resistance and/or incline and for short durations such as 30 seconds, and then return to a comfortable pace to recover. When this becomes easy, use high-intensity intervals to boost your power. For example, increase the resistance and incline to a level that feels the most difficult and remain there for 30 seconds. Then, return to a comfortable resistance and incline for one to two minutes for recovery before you pick up the pace again.

Workout Reminders

Begin your arc trainer workout session on a light resistance and low incline. nike mercurialx sale Pedal at a slow pace for three to five minutes to warm your legs and arms, if using the handrails. After your cardiovascular workout, return to a light resistance, low incline and slow pace for three to five minutes to cool down and lower your heart rate.

Rather than set goals that you may have trouble sticking to, start low and aim high. You may have an ultimate goal of walking for an hour a day; asics gel kayano start with a 15-minute daily walk and add five minutes each day for the next six days. At the end of the week you're walking for 45 minutes. If you feel you can do more than 45 minutes comfortably, add time to your walk during the following week. Walking Site suggests that walking on five days of the week is a good goal. You can also join one of the nationwide American Heart Association's "Start Walking" clubs and find new friends while getting fit.

Clock Up the Miles

Use distance as a guide to ensure that your walking is providing you with sufficient exercise. The National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that everyone perform some moderate exercise for 30 minutes a day, most days of the week. ACE Fit suggests that one way to achieve this is by walking two miles a day at a brisk pace, equivalent to about 4 miles per hour. asics trainers Consider using a pedometer to measure distance and make sure you're clocking up enough miles. If you can't fit a two-mile walk into your schedule, ACE Fit says break it down into three shorter walks per day.

Put Your Heart Into It

To improve your heart health, you also need to reach your target heart rate during at least 20 to 30 minutes of your walk. The target heart rate for beginners is 50 to 60 percent of your maximum heart rate. Find your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220 for men and 226 for women, then multiply by 0.5 and 0.6 to find your target zone. Advanced walkers may use this heart training zone as a warm-up before progressing during a walk to 70 to 80 percent of the maximum rate. The Walking Site says you should be breathing hard but not feel out of breath. If your aim is to lose weight, walk at this faster pace for at least 45 to 60 minutes, five days a week.

Watch Your Limit

Walking at 80 to 90 percent of your maximum heart rate improves your ability to use oxygen efficiently during exercise and your ability to tolerate lactic acid, which causes fatigue. Routinely walking at this high rate improves your overall cardiorespiratory system and burns more calories, 15 percent of which will come from your fat stores. If you can't sustain this pace throughout a walk, you can still benefit from it by using the interval training technique of building short bursts of high-intensity into your normal walking pace. However, walking at 90 to 100 percent of your maximum heart rate, which the Walking Site calls the Red Zone, is so intense that most people can do it only for short periods of time. asics gel lyte 3 It is also recommended that you have a medical check-up before attempting to walk at this pace.

When you walk the treadmill or take the stairs, you force muscles to perform work. Oxygen serves as a source of fuel for muscles, so as you walk faster and longer, the body's need for oxygen rises. basketball shoes store According to the Montana State University, oxygen consumption is proportional to heart rate. In other words, the more oxygen you need, the faster your heart will pump. Eventually, you reach your maximum heart rate, which is the fastest rate at which your heart can pump properly.

At Rest

Moderate-intensity activity, like walking, increases the heart rate during the activity but lowers the heart rate at rest. As you walk more, the heart becomes stronger, pumping more blood through the body with less effort. Other changes in the arteries and nervous system also improve the efficiency of blood transportation. These exercise-induced changes result in a lower resting heart rate because your heart doesn't have to pump as quickly to supply oxygen to the muscles in the body.

Stairs vs. Treadmill

Walking the treadmill and climbing stairs both serve as healthy activities that increase heart rate, but the two have differences. james harden shoes Climbing the stairs is more difficult because you're pushing up your weight against gravity. According to MayoClinic, a 160-pound man who walks briskly for one hour burns about 314 calories; that same man would burn about 657 calories climbing up a stair treadmill. Clearly, climbing the stairs is more taxing on the body and would elevate the heart rate faster than walking on a level treadmill. Climbing stairs has disadvantages, though. For example, walking down the stairs has an impact six or seven times greater than that of your own body weight.

Significance

Walking on the treadmill and climbing stairs are beneficial exercises that promote overall health. Raising your heart rate for at least 30 minutes can lower cholesterol, improve blood pressure, prevent heart disease and stabilize blood sugar. basketball shoes sale It can also prevent certain cancers like breast cancer and colon cancer. Regular activity can even help improve your mood when you're down in the dumps.

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