This is how to fit cardio into your busy life.

Lets paint a picture, you have a long stressful job, you get 2 days off, the rest of the week, you work for 9-5 or longer. When you come home you are tired to even workout or do anything and you have responsibilities at home too. So even though you do understand some of the benefits of exercises, they feel they don't have enough time to do any exercise. Many people fall within this category.

But the truth is, cardio doesn't have to be dull and boring. Neither do you have to do endless cardio to stay healthy. Cardio can be fun and the forms of cardio available. So unless you are unable to do it due it to serious disability, you should be able to find some type of cardio that is suitable for you. Below are few things that can help you with finding the right cardio for you.

Walking

Speaking from experience, walking in an open area, such as a park, brings many benefits to a person's physical and mental health. Walking calms and relaxes me. It can allow fresh oxygen to you which only feels good. Walking can be done before going to work or afterwards your work. Pretty much when you want, a 20 minute walk may not be difficult for many to fit in 3 or 4 times a week

Walking helps me recover from fatigue and muscle soreness too, which can be what many people are looking for. To increase the intensity simple walk faster. It is not tiring for the majority of the population unless if you suddenly get into walking.

HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)

10 second interval sprints (going above 90% intensity) with about 50 second rest or longer can be easy to fit in. 2 times a week this can be applied with 10 rounds where each round consist of 10 second sprint. This can be fun for many.

Essentially you can use other forms of exercise. Depends what you find to be enjoyable you can. You can do cycling, swimming, skipping rope.

You can even do some circuit training where you can choose a wide variety of exercises and rotate each exercise and go for as many rounds as you want.

Push ups
Plank
Crunches
Bodyweight Lunges
Bodyweight Squats
Burpees
Glutes Bridges
Leg raise
Burpees
etc..........................................

I for example like to do 30 seconds all out shadow boxing, with some rest and go as many rounds as I enjoy.

In between HIIT and LISS (Low Intensity Steady state)

You don't have to go all out like a traditional HIIT. Often this can burn out people who have very stressful lives. You can take longer rest and not go all out, and use some of the exercises I mentioned above, or exercises of your choice and do some cardio. The key in this type of cardio is to do physical activity and getting the heart rate up .

No reason to overdo it. Unless you aspire to be one, you don't need to train like an athlete who dedicates their life to perform on an elite level.

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