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or Aerobic Training: Aimed at improving your heart muscle and cardiovascular
system. Cardiovascular training or aerobic training may be accomplished
in several ways and you don’t need to spend any money. Walking,
jogging, skipping rope, boxing, dancing, riding a bike - any of
these qualify as aerobic exercise. Cardiovascular training should
be an essential element of your fitness routine.
Benefits of cardiovascular training:
- strengthens your heart
- helps you lose weight and reduce fat
- increases your endurance
Interval Training or Anaerobic Training: Aimed at improving
aerobic endurance for athletes. Interval training is characterized
by repetitions of heavy exercise with a recovery period following
each repetition. For instance, you might sprint for 10 seconds
and then follow that sprint with a two minute recovery jog. Then
you repeat the sprint/jog routine for about 20 minutes. During
the sprinting you are producing a state of oxygen debt. This can
also be called anaerobic training because you are out of oxygen.
Circuit training is also a form of interval training.
Benefits of Interval Training:
- improves athletic endurance
- strengthens the heart muscle
- improves the lungs or the ability to take in oxygen
Cross Training: Aimed at improving aerobic endurance, strength
and flexibility in athletes. Can also help fight boredom for anyone
who exercises. Type of training that requires you to do two or
more types of exercise either within the same routine or in successive
routines. For example, you may stretch every day for flexibility,
lift weights two days a week for strength training, and ride a
bike once a week for aerobic endurance.
Circuit Training: Type of interval training aimed at losing weight
and inches. Circuit training has been made popular by places like
Curves and Ladies Workout Express. In circuit training you have
several pieces of strength training equipment interspersed with
aerobic equipment like steps or jogging pads. It has all the benefits
of both cardiovascular and strength training workouts
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