workouts on cardio machines are the best form of exercise that will burn body fat, improve your stamina, lung capacity and achieve great heart health. These exercises not only help to burn body fat fast it will also strengthen your heart and lungs and thus reducing your chances of getting high blood pressure, stroke and heart diseases. You might know that regular cardio workout can have positive impact on raising good cholesterol levels while lowering the bad cholesterol.
But do you honestly think that you are getting all the benefits from your cardio machine workout routines? Are you using the cardio workouts machines for getting the best benefits of your exercises?
Well, you probably are not if you are an average gym user without any personal trainers to guide you because you will probably commit common cardio machine 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 workouts.
Thes eare some common mistakes when doing exercise on cardio machines:-
• 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. When you are doing this, your bodyweight will rest now on the railings and thus making your workout less intense.
• 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 up 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 doing the cardio workouts in an uncomfortable way when you can perform them very comfortably.
When the seats is too low, you will add too much strain on your knees and spine. If it would be too high, your butt will shake from side to side. So besides not getting the best from your cardio 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 workout mistake right?
Other mistake I see many people doing so much is reading a book while on stationery bike exercising. That means that they exercise at a very low intensity level. Hey, how can low intensity cardio exercises work your heart and lung 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 right? Then how com I see many people using eliptical trainer exercises at super high speeds? So what is that mistake? One of the mistake can be that they have set the resistant at very low levels.
You see, if you do not puff, pant and breakout in sweat, you are not getting the best out of your cardio exercises. You can see that there are no wonders why pwople are not losing weight, burning fat, improving hearth health even when they are exercising on regular basis?
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. In a very short time, you will see your body toning up nicely, improvement on your cardio health being felt and visibly losing excess body fat.