Category: Cardio

  • 5 Benefits of High Intensity Sprinting

    5 Benefits of High Intensity Sprinting

    As you go about your workout program, one of the main things that you should be focusing on is adding some sprinting into the mix.  Whether you are looking to lose body fat, improve your physical conditioning level, or simply improve your health, sprinting offers numerous benefits that you need to be aware of.

  • Tracking the Calories You Burn Per Mile From Walking

    Tracking the Calories You Burn Per Mile From Walking

    In these days of high-tech gadgets, there are various ways of tracking the number of calories you burn per mile while you are walking.

  • Cardio Kickboxing Conditioning

    Cardio Kickboxing Conditioning

    Cardio Kickboxing is a combination of martial arts such as karate, Muay Thai, boxing and aerobics performed rhythmically with music. It is also referred to as aerobic kickboxing.

  • Jumping Rope for Your Heart

    Jumping Rope for Your Heart

    Jumping rope is mostly associated with fighters and kids on a playground. However, it offers a multitude of benefits – like contributing to a healthy heart – to any person interested in their overall fitness and athletic prowess.

  • The Importance of a Fitness Stress-Test

    The Importance of a Fitness Stress-Test

    A fitness stress test is an important medical technique for revealing heart problems. Stress tests are sometimes called exercise stress tests, exercise electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG), or treadmill tests, among other names.

  • Circuit Training. Can you do it After 40?

    Circuit Training. Can you do it After 40?

    Circuit training is one of the most effective and efficient ways to burn fat, tone muscle and improve cardiovascular fitness. If there is one style of workout that everyone can find beneficial, no matter what his or her goal, it’s circuit training. But can you do it after the age of 40?

  • The Most Essential Swimming and Weight Loss Guide

    The Most Essential Swimming and Weight Loss Guide

    Swimming and weight loss have long been associated with each other like weight lifting and muscle building. There are several reasons why it’s about time to include swimming in your current workout routine.

  • Jumping Jacks Workout

    Jumping Jacks Workout

    Jumping jacks probably don’t get their due respect. The jumping jack as a plyometric movement is, nonetheless, quite effective at working the whole body. While most often relegated to warm-up duty, they can be used as a stand-alone workout developing coordination, quickness, power, and cardiovascular and respiratory endurance.

  • Develop Superman Stamina by Following This Cardio Regimen

    Develop Superman Stamina by Following This Cardio Regimen

    The strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation. That’s the definition of stamina. Many athletes and fitness enthusiasts go to great lengths to improve their stamina. Some find great success while others fall short. Building your stamina is imperative to improve your performance in sports and fitness activities. So what makes up…

  • Muay Thai – The Quickest Way to Bump Up That Cardio

    Muay Thai – The Quickest Way to Bump Up That Cardio

    Cardio, some love it, some hate it. Miles and miles logged on the treadmill. Hours spent on the elliptical. This can get pretty boring. Staring at the wall, mirror, gym floor or if your lucky a television.

  • Burpees: The Ultimate Conditioning Exercise

    Burpees: The Ultimate Conditioning Exercise

    High intensity workouts are the all the crazy these days. CrossFit, AOS and Beach body programs are more popular than ever.  There’s nothing special about any of these programs, besides the high intensity factor.

  • Cardiovascular Routines for the Winter Months

    Cardiovascular Routines for the Winter Months

    The obvious challenge to cardiovascular routines in the winter months is colder temperatures; it gives us new considerations. The resulting outdoor conditions, depending on geography, may be prohibitive of some activity.

  • Is Running a Marathon Too Much for Your Heart?

    Is Running a Marathon Too Much for Your Heart?

    Running a marathon is quite an arduous task. After running 26.2 miles, runners may complain of sore feet, ankles, knees, calves, quads, and hamstrings. But what impact, if any, does completing a marathon have on your heart?

  • Is Running Good for Your Brain Too?

    Is Running Good for Your Brain Too?

    Anyone who has spent any time around an older friend or family member that is suffering with memory loss and/or dementia knows how devastating diseases of the mind can be, not only for those suffering but on the family and caretakers as well.

  • Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    Older people, like younger, are excellent candidates for interval training. Interval training has been shown, via studies, to be not only safe for older individuals, but quite beneficial in multiple ways.

  • Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    When you think of interval training, what comes to mind? If you’re like me, the first thought is high intensity exercise sessions like many fitness bootcamps or CrossFit workouts.

  • 5 Exercises to Improve Your Running Performance

    If you’re someone who wants to improve their running performance, it will be a wise move to look at the various running exercises that can be performed. Running is a sport that is mostly going to require good muscular and cardiovascular endurance capabilities, but beyond that, it’s going to be imperative that you have muscular…

  • 3 Benefits of a Rowing Machine

      There are many ways to improve your strength and fitness and one of the best is with a rowing machine. Using a rowing machine has many benefits – not only will you increase your fitness but you will strengthen your core, legs, arms and upper back. It is the perfect all-in-one workout machine. #1…

  • The Great Impacts of Low Impact Aerobic Exercises

    Today, more and more people are suffering from various conditions that root from lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, peripheral arterial diseases and many other cardiovascular and metabolic-related diseases. Considering this growing situation, it is important to keep in mind the benefits of low impact aerobic exercises, proper diet and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.…

  • A Scientific Look at the CrossFit Craze

    You don’t have to look very far these days to come across somebody who is into the CrossFIt exercise craze, they’re literally everywhere! I know a lot of people that are all about CrossFit, and I even know a few guys that own CrossFit gyms. While I’ve never taken part in a CrossFit workout, I’ve…