| Aerobic
Cross Training for Weight Loss
Do you sometimes get bored with your aerobic
exercise? Do You sometimes feel like you're not
getting the results you should from your aerobic
exercise? If so, then aerobic cross-training is
for you.
Aerobic cross-training refers to
using two to three different types of aerobic
exercise during an exercise session. For example,
if you plan to exercise for 60 minutes, you might
start with 20 minutes of walking or jogging, followed
by 20 minutes of biking, and finish with 20 minutes
of rowing.
Now, please don't get the impression
that you have to be in great shape to do this
or that it has to be 60 minutes long. You can
start with something as simple as a ten minute
walk followed by ten minutes with an exercise
video. This is cross-training too. You can gradually
build up from there.
Here are some of the exercises you
can use in your cross-training program; walking,
jogging, biking, rowing, stair climbing, swimming,
exercise videos, etc. Any combination of aerobic
exercises will do. You simply go from one to the
next with very little time between them.
Aerobic cross-training is beneficial
to you in several ways:
1. It provides variety which eliminates
the monotony often associated with doing the same
exercise for a long period of time.
2. If your exercise sessions are
less monotonous and more enjoyable, you are much
more likely to exercise more often and for longer
periods of time.
3. You are less prone to over-use
injuries that sometimes occur from doing the same
exercise movements over and over again.
4. You tone more muscles because
you are using more muscles. For example, walking
tones mostly the lower body muscles and rowing
tones upper body muscles also. Even exercises
like walking and biking that both tone lower body
muscles, tone them at different angles and each
tones some small muscles that the other doesn't.
5. Aerobic conditioning is very
specific to the muscles being worked. For example,
you can walk ten miles a day and still be somewhat
breathless after climbing stairs because you haven't
trained the muscles for that specific movement.
Aerobic cross-training allows you to develop more
comprehensive aerobic training.
6. Aerobic cross-training is effective
for weight loss because your are toning and training
the fat-burning systems of more of your muscles.
It turns more of your muscles into 24-hour fat-burning
machines! You are also more likely to exercise
on a regular basis and for longer periods of time.
this also promotes weight loss and fitness.
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