Cardio Workout Tip

I am Steve Terrano, welcome to this episode of body performance. Here is another aerobics tip for you, on the day of the right just do not feel like running, my legs are sore or I am nursing an injury or my body just does not feel like taking the pounding here is what I do, I get on my treadmill and I warm up for about five minutes then once I am warmed up I again climb the treadmill as high as it will go.

Might be ten, 10.5 or 11 or whatever it is and I lower the speed to about three miles an hour and what this will do is this will replicate walking up the stairs or walking up a hill and basically it utilizes the legs completely. You are using your hamstrings, your quads, your gluts and you are really contracting the muscles with out having to go in a break-neck pace. And this will really burn calories and as you get more used to the angle you can increase the speed to 3.1, 3.2 or whatever suits your body.

I do this for as long as possible, then when I lower the incline to let us say four of five, it feels like nothing and then one side sort of re-group I kick it back up to ten or 11. This makes a big difference and this is what typically what I am talking about when I am talking about increasing the intensity of your aerobic workout. I do not want to do it for 35, 40, 50 minutes every day so during that 20 or 25 or 35 minutes that I do it, I want the best bank for my buck. So I make it tough, I make it hard and in that way I do not have to do it everyday. Love your body, see you next time.


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