Wednesday, April 1, 2009

How to Stay in Top Shape with the Best Cardio Exercises?

By Thong M. Dao

Have you ever wondered which cardio exercise is the best? Is it low or high intensity exercise routine? In fact, both programs help us burn off body fat. Now let's find out which one is better for fat loss?

Scientists found that high impact exercise enables the body to burn glycogen which is a kind of carbohydrates. The body stores glycogen in the liver and muscles and will use it for energy. It's also believed that under a low impact exercise, the body burns a lot of fat.

Unfortunately, researchers were not completely correct. To this day, there are more overweight people than ever though they exercise with low intensity. Why is it?

The scientists were right when they said the human body burns more body fat during low intensity cardio training like walking or swimming. But during a high intensity exercise such as running, the body will burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burnt are from glycogen, there are still many fat calories burned as well.

To put the icing on the cake, when our store of glycogen gets low, the carbohydrates from the food we eat will later be converted into glycogen to fill up the store instead of body fat when they are left unused.

High impact cardio exercise increases your metabolism. Even after you're done with your training session, your metabolism will continue to stay active. And you'll still burn fat for many hours later.

This effect is nearly non-existent in low intensity cardio workout. Cumulatively, the body will burn up more and more calories during and after we have finished a high intensity cardio exercise that it will with low intensity.

We can add high intensity exercises into our cardio workout by introducing some interval training " one of the best cardio exercises. We can walk for 5 minutes or so, then break into some jogging for another 5 minutes.

Continue to rotate each set until you are done. We can do cardio exercises at the gym or at home. At the gym you can use cardio machines. The most important thing about cardio program is the amount of time and continuous routine.

What's best about cardio is the more we do it, the more energy we'll have. Cardio will help us burn calories, although it's more useful for keeping our energy levels high.

If you've never tried cardio before, give it a shot. If you like exercising, you'll find cardio one of the best ways to boost energy and stay in top shape. For those who are just starting out, go slow and keep your cardio exercises on track - as it is very tempting to overexert yourself. - 16887

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