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The Art of Aerobic Exercise: From Novice to Cardio Queen!
Whether you’re a couch potato seeking an active lifestyle or an athlete aiming to edge out competitors through consistent improvisation, the art of aerobic exercise can tip the scales in your favour. It not only benefits your overall physical and mental health, but also provides you with a surplus of energy to take on regular routine tasks with zeal.
Here, we break down some valuable insights you’ll need to become a Cardio Queen and master the art of aerobic exercise without fussing over it.
Find Your Own Rhythm:
The first step to mastering aerobic exercises is to discover your optimum pace. Working out at a medium pace rather than at maximal efforts creates a sustainable process in the long run, offering optimal efficiency as compared to the latter. We’re all amazed by upbeat melodies luring us to increase our speed, but maintaining a consistent pace encourages us to improve our stamina gradually.
Types of Aerobic Activities:
Variety is the lid that re-ignites enthusiasm, especially while carrying out routine exercises. Therefore, to avoid monotony many aerobic activities can be incorporated to keep cardio enjoyable. Some can involve;
- Running, jogging or walking
- Cycling, skiing or swimmong
- Rowing and dancing
- Home-based aerobics routine or joining aerobics classes
Remember that in addition to cardiovascular endurance and health, also take into account your preferences and physical limitations (if any). Why stick with what’s mundane when the possibilities are endless!
Mind Your Posture:
Sometimes mindlessly entangled in a workout routine or music’s distractions, we tend to neglect our posture when exercising or resting. However, correct and accurate posture provides valuable support to our bodies while giving our heart and lungs the ability to function better, keeping stamina flowing to desired heights.
The Anticipated Challenge:
Challenging oneself is often underrated when weight lifting; gains and losses are pretty self-explanatory. In any cardio routine, however, spotting improvements can take weeks, making it easy to hit a plateau. That way, the solution is pushing yourself gently beyond your comfortable limits, increasing the workout intervals and pace progressively to a challenging degree. Whether it’s cardio kickboxing or hillside trail runs, try different types, learn what works best and make the challenge a habit.
Breathing ‘Wisely’:
Each motion that our body exhibits needs its zestful doses of oxygen, which is primarily where reaching far on our lungs comes to play. Therefore, coaches advocating aerobic training underline conscious and regular breathing practice that plays an influential during the exercises. Ensure either belly-breathing or chest breathing is practised, with rhythmic exhales accompanying countable or mental reminder remains much more beneficial than cessation of breathing, unnecessary forceful mouth breathing or short cycles of breath. On your days off, meditative breathwork also yields systematic harnessed gains a step further!
The Aseptic Rule:
Let’s face it, the eagerness to get active can sometimes come with the unmatched grandeur of skipping essential requirements. Do warm up, cool down stretching or perhaps wearing well-fitted and clean shoes to prevent injuries while reducing the probability of trips, falls or even bacterial infestation. Show some TLC, and your condition would reciprocate with rewards.
So with that said, mastering art isn’t a formula with magical solutions and conjuring routines, neither does the Cadio Queen phenomenon occur overnight. But with these insightful observations trickling down into your psyche to embark on your cardio journey today, there’d be infinite marvels unleashed!
Here’s to a healthy, fun and dynamic aerobic journey greeting us by becoming the cardio queens of our futures.
