Cardiovascular fitness love it or hate it, it does absolute wonders for your body! What is your favorite type of cardio? Do you have a hard time sticking to cardio? Here is an idea...pick something you absolutely love to do, makes you feel amazing when you are done doing it. If you don't enjoy doing it you will stop completely. Walking, jogging, running are probably what you think of when you hear cardio but it includes so much more. You can run bleachers or stairs, kick boxing (I love!), aerobic group classes, running around with your children, anything to get your heart going. You can also do interval training. Interval training includes slow and fast intervals. For example, walk for 2 minutes and then jog for a minute up to 30 minutes total. Once you get your heart and lungs use to cardio you can increase your intervals to jogging and sprints. If you have knee problems, try the elliptical or biking as they are low impact but a great form of cardio. You should include at least 30 minutes of physical activity in your life each day....this does not have to be 30 continuous minutes. Cardio can improve your heart health, lungs, mental health, decrease body fat, and help prevent many diseases. If you don't already do some form of cardio, give it a try! Get active and feel the difference!
Be Fit, Stay Well!
-Sara
Hello Sara very interesting blog I enjoyed reading it a lot we have so much in common I love doing cardiovascular exercises anything from Boxing, to running on the beach, or anything else that I feel will help me to be more well rounded. I also like to work in some P90X workouts if you are familiar with them they quite challenging and really make you sweat anyway enough of my rambling excellent blog CK aka Health nut.
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