Cardio conditioning

Cardio training has been very popular over the years and, with the help of high tech cardio equipment, it’s still booming.
And what’s going on with all these people doing their 45 minutes of cardio, watching in the same time CNN or reading the latest news of the stock market?
After $500 of membership spent (sometimes a lot more) and about 156 hours breathing out on the machines (3 hours a week for 1 year), nothing spectacular; they still look the same and their conditioning is still poor.

What happened?
- Long cardio sessions at a steady state is ineffective: it’s ok for burning some calories but for a real cardio conditioning, forget it. After a few sessions, your body do not react anymore because he knows already, he becomes “lazy” and burns less calories for the same workout.
- Never do something else while exercising: you have to focus on your effort, on your body, on your breathing.

The solution: interval training, you have to push yourself to a state you are breathing more, you heart rate goes higher. Be progressive and do not go in a state you are completely out of breath, be smart.
Alternate with slow pace to recover.
The workout is more intense but can be shorter: you can get a good cardio workout in 15 minutes. And results, I mean real results, will come in a few weeks…More to come…