How to avoid common cardio workouts on exercise machines

Cardio or aerobics exercise machine workouts are great for burning fat and building good cardiovascular health. Cardio exercises not only help to reduce your body fat, it will also strengthen your heart and lungs thus reducing your chances of getting high blood pressure, stroke, heart diseases and other obesity related diseases.

Regular cardio/aerobic exercises can also reduce bad cholesterol and raise the level of good cholesterol. However, are you getting the best out of your cardio machine workouts? Are you using the cardio/aerobics workout machines efficiently to gain maximum benefits of aerobic exercises?

Well, you are probably not if you are an average gym user without any personal trainers to guide you because you will probably commit common cardio machine and weight loss mistakes when exercising.

We shall now examine the more popular cardio workout machines and the common mistakes people commit when using these machines for their aerobic workouts.

Common mistakes when using cardio/aerobic workout machines are :-

Step up stair climber - This is perhaps the most common mistake for not getting the most out of the step up stair climber machine. Almost invariably, everyone when exercising with this machine will rest their arms on the railing. By doing so, the railing now becomes sort of like a crutch as it will now support some of your body weight making the exercise less aerobically intensive and thus reduces the calories burnt for fat loss.

Treadmill - The treadmill is perhaps the most popular cardio workout machine in the gym. A careful observation will show that many treadmill users run with too much ups and downs. This mistake will wear out the person's ankle and knee joints over time. The correct method is to take long, smooth and purposeful strides during the exercise.

Stationery Bike - When exercising on the stationery bike, do adjust the height of the seat to a comfortable level. I really don't understand why many stationery bike users adjust their seats to be either too high or too low. I mean, why be uncomfortable when exercising when you can be comfortable.

When the seat is too low, it adds strain to your knees and spine. When too high, your will butt will rock from side to side. So besides not getting the best from your cardio/areobic workout on the stationery bike because your body weight will be involved when you peddle, you will also look weird. It is such a silly aerobic workout mistake isn't it?

Another common cardio weight loss workout mistake is that I often see stationery bikers reading a book when exercising. That means that they exercise at a very low intensity level. Hey, how can low intensity cardio exercises work your heart and lungs effectively?

Elliptical Trainer - This is also another bewildering common cardio workout mistake. You use the elliptical trainer to tone your body and to exercise for your cardiovascular fitness and health right? Then why is it I often see people who use the elliptical trainer exercising at high speed? So what is the mistake?

The mistake is that they have set the resistant level too low. Since the ressistance setting from the elliptical trainer machine is low, this is why they can workout at high speed. So if ressistance to your muscles is low, how then do you tone your muscles or exert enough energy to work your cardiovascular system effectively?

You see, if you do not puff, pant and breakout in sweat, you are not getting the best out of your cardio exercises. Is it any wonder then that people are not losing weight and not improving on their cardiovascular health even when they are doing their cardio exercises regularly?

Now that you know how to avoid these common cardio machine exercise workout mistakes, you can now head for the gym and get the best out of these exercises and improve your aerobic health. In no time, you will see your body toning up nicely, improvement to your cardio health being felt and losing unwanted body fat more quickly.

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