cardiovascular exercise
If you’re trying to get flat abs, what’s the best type of cardio to do? This article looks at moderate-intensity cardiovascular exercise versus high-intensity interval training and which is better for losing abdominal fat and getting firm abdominal muscles. Find out more.
Is doing cardiovascular exercise really a reliable strategy for weight loss? We’d like to think so – but what does science show? Let’s look at the evidence so far.
Cardio – it’s good for your heart – but can it lead to muscle loss or interfere with strength gains? Is the interference effect real? Find out what research shows.
Circuit training workouts offer variety and they help to reduce exercise boredom and burnout – but do they improve cardiovascular fitness? Find out what research shows and the pros and cons of circuit training workouts.
If your ultimate goal is to build lean body mass, does cardiovascular exercise make it harder to reach your goal? This article looks at the issue of “concurrent training,” whether aerobic exercise interferes with muscle development. Find out what research shows and tips you can use this information to enhance your own training.
Cardiovascular exercise helps to build endurance and improve heart health but taken to an extreme, it can send your body into a catabolic state that makes it harder to build muscle strength and lean body mass. This article gives four tips for maintaining an anabolic state for muscle and strength development while still getting an adequate cardiovascular workout.
Very short workouts are the rage these days. Some people are doing workouts as short as ten minutes before calling it a day. Does this type of brief exercise have benefits? Find out the pros and cons of ultra-brief workouts and how they can best give you benefits.
Ventilatory threshold can be used to monitor how hard you’re exercising. Find out what ventilatory threshold is, how it relates to lactate threshold and how you can use it to monitor your intensity during high-intensity interval training.
A HiiT shorter workout holds the potential to improve your cardiovascular fitness, lower insulin resistance, and even help you build muscle mass.
I’ve been making high intensity cardio videos for decades, so you can bet that I’m excited to see this type of workout featured as one of the hottest new trends in the fitness industry. My two newest workouts, Cross Fire and To the Max mix high intensity cardio along with metabolic training to give you the ultimate fat burning and conditioning workout. But how can this type of training benefit you?
Cardiovascular exercise boosts endurance and heart health while burning calories and fat. Does cardiovascular exercise cause loss of muscle mass? Some fitness gurus think so.
You want to get the most benefits from the time you spend weight training at the gym. Most people wrestle with the question of whether to do weights before cardio or cardio before weights to maximize calorie burn and get more defined.
