Doing aerobics is a great way to lose weight and stay healthy. Not only does it strengthen your heart and lungs, it also helps you to burn fat. However, many people don’t know or understand how intense an aerobics workout should be in order to achieve the best results.
Intensity is a very important aspect of any aerobics workout, so if you want to get the most out of your aerobics, make sure that you’re following these three rules.
1) Begin Your Aerobic Workouts At A Low Intensity
Begin your aerobics workout by warming up. This should be done at low intensity with gentle stretching and low-impact exercises. If you start out too intensely, you may injure yourself or not see results.
2) Build Up The Intensity After The First Ten Minutes
Once you have warmed up, increase the intensity gradually till your heart rate increases. You should be panting a little, to give your heart and lungs a good workout. You can use hand weights or ankle weights to incorporate some resistance training into your aerobics workout.
Your muscles may feel tired and a little sore, but you should not be feeling any pain especially in the joints. Stop immediately if you experience any pain to avoid injury. If you feel fatigued, rest for a minute before continuing.
3) Vary The Intensity Of Your Aerobics Workout
Vary the intensity throughout your workout. Try different exercises and routines at varying intensities. When you exercise to the point of panting, slow the pace a little to even out your breathing.
This is because if you are exercising to the point of panting too much for too long, the fat burning actually slows down. Instead, you are only burning off your blood sugar. What you hope to achieve when you do aerobics is to burn fat.
You can spend the first ten minutes warming up at low intensity, gradually building up the intensity from moderate to high. You can then revert your pace back to moderate before switching back to high intensity for a final blast.
Every workout should end with cooling down and gently stretching, to minimize any muscle soreness. If you exercise till you are so sore that you can’t exercise for the next four days, you’ll be missing out on the health and weight loss benefits of consistent aerobic activity.
Lastly, change your aerobics workout routine and increase its intensity every two weeks or so, as your tolerance and endurance increases, to continue challenging your body. The fat burning and weight loss benefits of your aerobics workout decreases over time if you stay with the same routine. Your body will learn to do the same exercises more efficiently and eventually burn less fat and calories.
By building up your aerobics routine slowly as outlined above, you’ll be able to find success more readily.
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