Choose Your Cardio Exercises for Weight Training

Choose your cardio training method

Choosing the right type of cardio training is essential in achieving the results that you would have set out in your goals. To do so, one must choose the right type of cardio training. There are 3 types.

- Low intensity
- Moderate intensity
- High intensity

Low intensity cardio training

This would consist of activities such as walking or slow cycling. Regardless of which body type you are, doing these activities on a daily basis won’t have much of an impact on your weight gaining efforts, as your body can recover quite quickly and shortly after doing them. You also get to burn a few calories in the process.

Moderate intensity training

This would consist of activities such as swimming and jogging. These activities require more energy to perform them and require a longer time for your muscles to recover from.
Those aiming for weight loss should do 4-6 sessions a week, while those aiming for weight gain should do 2-3 sessions a week.

High intensity training

This type of cardio training is the toughest of them all and requires a good level of fitness to perform. This type of training involves activities such as sprinting and interval training. If you’ve ever been a part of a winning team or had an award winning coach as an athlete, then they would have pushed you to your limits and that is what would be classed as high intensity training. This type of training is quite simply,
Hard and fast!
The great thing about high intensity training is that in addition burning a lot of calories, you will also be boosting your metabolism, which is essential for keeping the weight off when trying to lose weight. If you are trying to lose weight then you may want to try doing this type of training at least once or twice a week. It will give you a really good kick-start towards your weight loss goals. I wouldn’t suggest doing this more than once or twice a week because it really does take it’s toll on the body, and you will take much longer to recover.

conclusion:

When trying to find a balance for optimum fitness these are the 3 factors that you need to identify first. Everyone’s goals will be different and for the most part it will depend on how much time you have available to you. These rules are not the be all and end all by any means, but use it as a guideline and feel free to experiment. Once you do, you will eventually find what works for you in order to find a good balance for cardio and resistance training.