Busy Mom’s make your workout more efficient
Quite often we hear from stay at home Mom???s who are trying to fit a lot into their busy schedules. Between taking kids to school, preparing meals and running errands, their lives are busy and they find it tough to fit their workout program into their daily lives.
We all know how important exercise is for our physical health as well as for our emotional health. Keeping your workout in your schedule is crucial for you especially when you are busy which tends to make you a little overstressed.
To help busy moms make your workout more efficient and ensure you achieve success in maintaining them we have two suggestions for you. One is to do with the way that you do your cardio workouts and the other is to do with the way you do your strength workouts.
For your cardio, we suggest doing interval training for your workouts. Interval training involves short bursts of high intensity exercise follow by a short period of rest or moderate intensity exercise. This form of cardio has been found to be much more efficient than longer duration aerobic cardio (ie, running for an hour). Your heart rate tends to stay higher for longer periods of time which burns more calories. Also, interval training challenges your heart more than steady state training which helps it to become more efficient and will eventually help lower your resting heart rate. This means a heart that will remain healthier for more years of your life.
To make your strength training more efficient we suggest you do what are called supersets. Normally when people strength train they pick a body part or two and focus on those for the day. They end up starting on one body part and do a set of an exercise and then take a rest. With this method of training there are a lot of rest periods and this can add significant time to the length of your workout. Supersets are where you take two opposite body parts and work them at the same time to make your workout more efficient. For instance, you could work on your biceps and triceps. You can perform a set on your biceps and then while they are resting you would perform a set on your triceps. Basically you are taking your rest period and filling it in with another exercise on another body part. Both body parts still get the rest they need while the other body part is being worked. Another benefit to this style of strength training is that it tends to increase the heart rate a little more; thereby burning more calories and creating somewhat of an aerobic workout for you.
If you???re a Mom looking to make sure you fit exercise into your busy schedule we highly recommend these two tips to increase the efficiency of your workouts. You can use these ideas effectively for your home workouts, at the park or at the gym.
About the Author: Alex K is an online Fitness Professional providing health and wellness to the world through his online workout program Cardio Blast. Members of www.Cardioblast.com receive new cardio workouts every week, full meal planning, fitness tracking and customized online workout programs.