running out cardio ideas!
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MisterMetoo
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Try plyometrics, SAQ drills are fun such as cone drills and ladder drills, get a
reaction/agility ball. Circuit training with timed intervals & high repitions is also great. Circuit training is shown to be as beneficial if not more beneficial than traditional cardio eg. Treadmill.
reaction/agility ball. Circuit training with timed intervals & high repitions is also great. Circuit training is shown to be as beneficial if not more beneficial than traditional cardio eg. Treadmill.GOING TRAINING
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For something different and if you have access to a pool swimming sure burns a lot of calories
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Mrs P
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I like HITT, do it twice a week on my off days, love circuit training (I replace cardio & burn fat & sculpt my body)
My circuit training routine is usually: Push ups/ Burpees, sit-ups, leg raises, planks, crunches, then squats using body weight, dips, & push-ups again... sometimes I sprint... it's pretty intense, I love it !
I also do kickboxing, treadmill at a 14.9 incline, jumprope, .. For me changing things up keeps me interested..
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essays
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These are the cardio routines I do, and i usually combine 1-2 per workout day (pre and post weight training).
1: Tabata Sprints: (Set treadmill to 5% grade and 11.5mph, sprint for 20 seconds, stand on rails for 10 seconds, repeat 8 times for 4 minutes total).
2: Short high pace run: Walk 2 mins to warm up, run at 8.8mph for 10 minutes, 2 mins high pace walk cooldown, another min lower pace.
3: Row 20 minutes as hard as I can manage
4: Stair mill: 15-20 minutes @ 100 steps per minute, using the handrails as little as possible.
5: Spinning bike. Hard as I can manage seated. Every few minutes crank the resistance and do a standing sprint for 1-2 mins, then follow it with 1 min of cooldown and resume previous pace. (20-25 mins total)
6: Treadmill incline. Set to 12.5% 3.8mph. Walk for 10-15 minutes, cooldown for 5 minutes while decreasing incline slightly each minute.
7: Eliptical. Interval sprints. 1 min hard 1 min easy for 20 mins.
I really rotate these through my weekly workouts. The Tabata sprints I listed at the top are insane.
JOMO718
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Good info right here. I would try jump roping also! People really underestimate it. I cannot do cardio without atleast 25-30min of jump roping. I enjoy it the most.
I run to the gym everyday I work out, or 5 to 6 days a week. It's 3 miles from my house, so 6 miles total. I just listen to my ipod and run like hell. Running back home after a leg day in the gym is the worst! Another thing I do, which is the worst for me is go to the high school track/football field and do sprint training which the whole idea is to keep my heart rate as high as possible, then do an exercise that isn't super intense so it forces my body to slow my heart rate down while I am still working.
My sprint training looks like this, no breaks in between;
1) 500 yard sprint, as fast as possible, get that heart rate up super high right away
2) Up downs, like the football training deals, 1 minute of them
3) High knees, as fast and high as possible, out 10 yards and back 10 times
4) 1 lap around the entire field, decent pace, this is where you train your body to lower your heart rate while you are still working
5) Stop the lap at the field goal post and jump up and do as many pull ups as possible
6) Drop down and do as many push ups as possible
7) Roll over and do as many sit ups as possible
8) 100 yard sprint to the other side of the field
9) Balanced catch and throws, stand on one foot and throw a tennis ball back and forth, only catching and throwing the ball with one hand, this is pretty tough while your heart rate is spiked
10) Bear crawls, I do mine up hill as there is a pretty good sized hill on one side of the field, go as fast as possible up, then jog down the hill, repeat 10 times
11) 100 yard sprint back across
12) Another lap around at a decent pace
13) Tire flip, it's a big ass tire ha, so I flip that as many times as I can
14) Tire jumps, I jump up on the tire as fast as I can and as many times as I can
I try to do this once a week at least, it works awesome!
Here is a link to a picture of me flipping the tire
i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r608/lifter121/104_0775.jpg
I guess just copy and past it into your address bar! I can't figure this thing out haha
My sprint training looks like this, no breaks in between;
1) 500 yard sprint, as fast as possible, get that heart rate up super high right away
2) Up downs, like the football training deals, 1 minute of them
3) High knees, as fast and high as possible, out 10 yards and back 10 times
4) 1 lap around the entire field, decent pace, this is where you train your body to lower your heart rate while you are still working
5) Stop the lap at the field goal post and jump up and do as many pull ups as possible
6) Drop down and do as many push ups as possible
7) Roll over and do as many sit ups as possible
8) 100 yard sprint to the other side of the field
9) Balanced catch and throws, stand on one foot and throw a tennis ball back and forth, only catching and throwing the ball with one hand, this is pretty tough while your heart rate is spiked
10) Bear crawls, I do mine up hill as there is a pretty good sized hill on one side of the field, go as fast as possible up, then jog down the hill, repeat 10 times
11) 100 yard sprint back across
12) Another lap around at a decent pace
13) Tire flip, it's a big ass tire ha, so I flip that as many times as I can
14) Tire jumps, I jump up on the tire as fast as I can and as many times as I can
I try to do this once a week at least, it works awesome!
Here is a link to a picture of me flipping the tire
i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r608/lifter121/104_0775.jpg
I guess just copy and past it into your address bar! I can't figure this thing out haha
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I've been getting more interested in this HIIT training. Sounds great for dropping weight. But in this weight drop will a high amount of it be muscle mass?
currently i mostly do 20-30min routines of either incline walking or eliptical. Also lately i've been adding in rope jumping too.
Thinking of maybe adding in some HIIT on the eliptical and hill walking. But only if its not gonna have too much effect on muscle mass.
Any info or experience is welcomed
