Cardiovascular Exercises: Low impact cardiovascular exercises

Friday, August 30, 2013

Low impact cardiovascular exercises

What do you know about low impact cardiovascular exercises? Cardio exercise or often called aerobic exercise is the kind of exercise which is the most easy and cheap and provides many health benefits for our bodies, especially for cardiovascular health and fitness. There are many types of cardio exercise that we all know such as running, jogging, gymnastics, cycling and swimming. The major benefit of cardiovascular exercise in addition to improve fitness is to increase fat burning in the weight loss process. Cardiovascular exercise is a fun exercise to lose weight. If you are confused to find a good exercise for you, perhaps this kind of exercise may be the right choice. To be more powerful, aerobic / cardio workout can be accompanied with the music that you are excited.

Actually there are two types of cardiovascular exercise. They are high impact and low impact cardiovascular exercises. High Impact cardio exercise is performed with a faster tempo and intensive for instance running, jogging, cycling, aerobics, and so on. Low Impact aerobics, aerobic exercise is conducted in a moderate intensity. This kind of exercise is good for those who are recuperating from an injury, pregnant women or the elderly. Examples of this training for pregnant women are walking and aerobic exercise in the water. Maybe we already know or heard that a good cardiovascular workout to burn fat is cardio exercise with low or moderate impact in a long time for approximately 45 minutes. That is true, but there are other techniques that are more effective and efficient, and it does not require a long time but it gives satisfactory results.

The technique is called HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). It is a cardio workout that uses a combination of high-intensity exercise of moderate intensity or low in a certain time interval. An example is this way is sprint approximately 20-30 seconds and followed with a walk or jog for 60-90 seconds depending on the fitness of each condition. But if you don’t like this workout, you can only do low impact cardiovascular exercise too and you will be impressed with the result. Keep in mind that to obtain maximum results, of course, it is supported by certain factors other than the exercise itself, such as your diet and rest periods. Adjust your diet by eating a good balance between carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and minerals and vitamins. Reduce consumption of carbohydrates and fatty foods.

Some of the low impact exercises