Cardiovascular training
Cardiovascular training is an essential part of the personal fitness training process. Cardiovascular training, or CV training as it is also known, ensures that your heart, lungs and associated blood vessels are properly exercised and kept healthy and fit.
Your cardiovascular system, your heart, lungs, circulatory system, is like any other muscle and is essentially your body’s engine and it needs to be kept in good shape and it needs to be healthy in order for you to run and function properly.
An aspect of cardiovascular training is your resting heart rate, also known as HRH. The HRH is the number of times your heart beats within 60 seconds. Each beat is a single contraction of your heart as blood pumps around your body. The lower your resting heart rate is, the quicker your heart can pump blood, allowing you to know how strong your heart is.
The average HRH is around 72 beats every 60 seconds for an adult, but with proper cardiovascular training your HRH will decrease as your heart grows stronger.
There are numerous cardiovascular training methods that Scott can build into your personal training programme. The best types of training methods and exercises are those that use the largest muscle groups in your body and that require you to support your own bodyweight during your exercising sessions.
Below is a list of such training exercises and methods Scott uses when working on cardiovascular training:
Jogging
Jogging is known as the classic cardio exercise and all we would need to do is have a gentle run around a park. The jogging exercise is very effective for cardiovascular exercise and it limits the special equipment that is needed.
Cycling
Once we have a few training sessions with cycling you will begin to feel comfortable taking your bike to work instead of driving. This helps push your metabolism rate, allowing you to lose weight faster. As well as working on cycling exercises at the training sessions, you can easily integrate it into your lifestyle.
Sprints
While running is an excellent method for weight loss and muscle building, it is only effective for speeding up the rate of your metabolism when you’re running. Sprinting can burn off a large amount of calories and it also keeps the high rate of your metabolism for days afterwards.
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Skipping
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