Exercises and Workouts - Improve Your Fat Loss With Cardio Bursts

If you're going through your workout sessions and seeing relatively good results but still feel you could be seeing more, it would be worth your while to kick things up a notch.

How can you do that? Cardio bursts! Cardio bursts are a technique bringing cardio training to your strength training workouts, giving you the best of both worlds while also increasing your metabolic rate more significantly than it otherwise would be. Increasing your metabolic rate translates to you burning more calories both during as well as after the session is over.

But how do you do these "bursts?" Let's go over the details on what this technique is all about.

What Is A Cardio Burst? First let's talk about what these are. They are additions to your strength training workout... 30 to 60-second intervals of cardio training carried out between the strength training moves you're doing.

So for instance, you might perform a set of push-ups and then move into skipping for 30 to 60 seconds. Once you've finished skipping, you would then rest for 30 to 60 seconds before going back to the push-ups (or the next exercise in your workout routine).

You can either add a cardio burst to your routine after each and every strength training move you do. Or, if you prefer, you can add them after only so many depending on what your goal happens to be.

Options For Doing Cardio Bursts. What are the best options? You'll want to focus on exercises easy to start and stop so you can include them in your workout routine immediately. For instance, hopping on a stationary cycle would be less desirable as the transition takes some time.

Better options would include exercises such as jumping jacks, burpees, mountain climbers, running knee raises, or stair sprints (if working out in your home near a staircase).

All of these could be easily performed using your body weight. Then you will never run the risk of another gym goer being on a piece of equipment you need when exercising in a commercial gym.

Smart Tips To Remember. Finally, when adding cardio to your workout routine, do remember a few points. First, never let fatigue build so high you cannot sustain proper form. Remember, proper form is an absolute must at all times. If you don't use the correct form, you'll just get injured and sidelined - and then you won't be seeing results.

Note you may think twice about doing cardio bursts after leg training exercises. Doing a set of heavy squats and then attempting some burpees won't go over so well. Don't let your strength training be compromised by cardio bursts. If this means doing cardio bursts after upper body exercises, so be it.

So give cardio bursts a try next time you're in the gym and looking to ramp up your total rate of fat burning.

Although managing Type 2 diabetes can be very challenging, it is not a condition you must just live with. Make simple changes to your daily routine - include exercise to help lower both your blood sugar levels and your weight.

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