The Best Home Cardio Workouts For Fast Results
Working out at home is a great way to increase your fitness levels and develop the body you have always wanted. Cardio training is vital for increasing and maintaining fitness levels, burning body fat and generally stay healthy.
Research has proven that just 20minutes of exercise a day can help promote longer life, reduce stress, increase health benefits and help burn body fat.
Cardio workouts are defined as exercise that increases your bodies heart rate about its normal level. This can be as simple as walking to running a marathon.
You do not need any fancy equipment or machinery to do a cardio workout and below you will find a great selection of home cardio workouts to choose from.
Try These Great Home Workouts
- 10 Minute Interval Workouts
- 20 Home Circuit Training Routine
- Home Jump Rope Workout
- Home Spinning Workouts
If you are new to exercise and consider yourself to be unfit then you will want to start off slowly and gradually build on the intensity of your workouts. This can be as simple and going for a half hour walk a few times a week. You can gradually build on this by increasing the lengths of your walks, upping your walking pace or both.
Steady progression is the key to getting in shape. Not only is this statement true for home cardio workouts but for all other workouts and all areas of life. Its the same as saying you have to crawl before you can walk and then walk before you can run.
Here are some examples of what home cardio workouts you could do:
- Walking, jogging or running
- Go for a bike ride
- Skipping
- Bodyweight exercise circuits
- Home Fitness Workout DVD
- Kick boxing
The above are just some basic examples of things you can do without the use of a gym. Anyone can stick on a pair of trainers and go for a walk so there is really no excuse for not exercising. If you are able to up the pace from walking to jogging or running then that's great, a simple 30minute session 2-4 times a week will gradually improve your fitness levels.
If you prefer to do your home cardio workouts without leaving the confines of your own home then don't worry there are still plenty of home workouts for you to choose from.
As i mentioned above skipping is a great way to increase 
cardiovascular fitness. A standard speed skipping rope will probability set you back about $5-$10 and is a great investment. Try and keep your jumps as small as possible and go for speed. You can start of with 30second rounds and try and skip no stop for 30seconds. Do this 2-4 times to begin with with about 30seconds rest in between. You will soon start to get out of breath and feel your heart worker harder and faster with this home fitness workout.
Again you can increase the intensity as your fitness levels increase by increasing the length of each round, increasing the number of reps or shortening the rest period. You don't need alot of space to do skipping however you need a fair amount of ceiling space. It is possible to do skipping indoors but to prevent accidental damages from the rope you may be better off doing it in your back garden or spare room if you have one.
Bodyweight exercises are ones that you can do without any equipment and you use the weight of your body to complete each exercise. Basic examples of these include push ups, sit ups, burpees, star jumps etc. When you combine a group of exercises together with little or no rest in between each one you get what is known as a circuit. Circuit training is a great way to increase cardio fitness as a great demand is placed on your body causing you to breathe heavily, your heart to pump more and you to burn fat, build muscle and get fitter.
A popular way for people to do their home cardio workouts is by following a fitness DVD. There are plenty of aerobic DVD's to choose from some are better then others but all essentially involve you following the workout which is demonstrated on your telly. This can be a great way to motivate yourself during the workout as you are following someone else's footsteps and you often don't need a lot of room to perform your workout. You do however need access to a DVD player which has a clear floor space in front of it. This may mean moving bits of furniture etc. The exact space you need would be determined by the home fitness workout and what exercises it has you doing.
Carrying on from the home cardio workouts DVD's one of my favorite workouts for doing in my living room are Tae Bo workouts. Tae bo came out years ago and was crafted by Billy Blanks who produced a set of workout DVD's which are really easy to follow for people of all fitness abilities. The beauty of Tae bo is that you don't have to be some sort of Mr Miaggi martial arts expert, these workouts are designed to be followed by ordinary people who want to see results.
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Some Important Pointers For Your Home Cardio Workouts
Here are some great tips i have for you in order to get the most out of your home cardio workouts.
- Do something you enjoy doing
There is no good in going out for a run every week when you really hate it. Find a form of exercise which you enjoy or will start to enjoy when you get better at it.
- Mix it up
Every know and then change the format of your home cardio workouts. Maybe do running one day and skipping on another. You don't have to stick to the same workouts day in day out this will just lead to boredom and you are more likely to give up.
- Wear comfortable clothing
Just because your at home dost mean you can workout in your suit or a pair of jeans. You should still wear clothing that you find supportive and comfortable like you would wear to the gym.
- Set yourself targets
You should set yourself targets to reach each and every workout. This could be as simple as completing the workout in a given time or adding an extra 5minutes to your workout. There are plenty of goals you can set yourself and making and achieving goals is a great way to stay motivated.
- Consistency is the key to success
I say this alot throughout the pages on this site and its true. Consistency is not only the key to success in your home cardio workouts, but in other forms of training and your life also. You can workout every now and then and expect good results. If you want to be good at something you need to keep doing it other and other again. If you want to be fit and healthy you need to workout on a regular basis.
- Free form distraction
How can you workout when you have a screaming child running about the house pretending to be a power ranger? Try and find a time to workout when you can do so alone. i understand that this may not always be the case and i have spent numerous home workouts with my daughter trying to join in. You need to learn to block out distractions or at least minimalise them.
- Plan in advance
This is a very important point as you should plan every workout before doing it. Plan a time and date to do it and what you want to achieve from it. You are more likely to stick to your plan and achieve your goals this way.
- Consider training with a friend
Having a training partner can be a great benefit in helping you with the motivation to train. There is nothing wrong with training on your own however i find that if i train with someone i always seem to push myself that little bit more.
- Progression
Progression is something i touched on earlier. Each workout you should aim to do a little bit more that way you are challenging your body and making it work a little harder each time. This will help you to make consist ant fitness gains.
When is the best time to do cardio training?
Personally the most important part is doing the workout it self and not worrying about the time to train. If you want to burn fat faster then you can do an interval session of cardio first thing in the morning before you eat breakfast. This way your body will be dipping into its fat stores for its energy.
If you cant make an early morning workout then that's fine and its better do actually do a workout then worry about what time to do one.
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