GET IN THE ZONE To help you make the most of your cardio exercise workout, help your heart, increase muscle, and lose fat, heres some tips: To reap all the benefits of a cardio workout, you should sustain your workout for 20 minutes or more about three to four times per week. Not only that, but you need to get in the ZONE, which calculates into burning calories and fat. The best way to find out if you are burning fat is to take your pulse halfway into your cardio workout for six seconds, then add a zero to that number. This number is your heart rate per minute. Next, calculate your ZONE. Take the number 220, then minus your age, then calculate 70% of that number for your target beats per minute and thats your ZONE. If your heart rate halfway through your workout is over that 70% mark take it down a level, and if under, pick up the pace. Not a maths wiz? There are easier ways to figure it out - get a pulse monitor, which takes the maths out of it. Alternatively take the talk test: while you are doing aerobics, talk a sentence. If you are too winded to finish the sentence, you are overdoing it, or if its too easy to say, kick it up a notch! Source: WebMD
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:05:03 +0000