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4 Top Tips For Great Cardio Workouts

Here are 4 top tips for having great cardio workouts. Doing them will boost your workouts and allow you to be more productive and efficient while losing weight.

The 4 Top Tips for Great Cardio Workouts

1. Drink enough water

Your body is 70% water, your muscles are 75% water, your blood is 90% water. You need water... and lots of it. For optimum performance and results, water is essential. Why cheat your body out of what it basically is... water. All you need to do is sip it every few minutes.

2. Increase your intensity, but stay fresh

Intensity in the gym is what gets results. You shouldn't expect results if you're spending a lot of time talking to other people, talking on your cell phone... basically, if you can hold a conversation while you're exercising, you're not exercising hard enough.

Now, increasing your intensity will take a lot out of you, so you need to manage your rest times so you stay fresh. Use active rest... that's where you continue doing the exercise, but at a slower pace. Although this is low intensity, it's actually intense since you're not giving your body a true rest after a high level of intensity.

3. Have short rest times, but rest often

Resting often keeps you fresh and allows you to maintain a higher level of performance which creates better results, but make sure the rest times are short. Anywhere from 30-90 seconds is ideal.

4. Avoid cardio machines whenever possible

Cardio machines can help with weight loss, but a lot of them give you mechanical advantages that are not natural to the human body. You don't want that. You want your cardio movements to be as natural as possible for the best results.

The more complex the equipment, the worse it is. A jump rope, hula hoop, and mini-trampoline will get you a lot further than a treadmill even would.

So try out these 4 tips for great cardio workouts and watch as your get better results within a few weeks.

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