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Cardio Exercise Machines – Common Cardio Workout Mistakes
Cardio exercise machine workouts are great and fun for burning excess body
fat and building good cardiovascular 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.
Regular cardio exercises can also reduce bad cholesterol and raise the level of
good cholesterol.
However, are you getting the most out of your cardio machine workouts? Are
you using the cardio workout machines efficiently to gain maximum benefits of
the 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.
Common mistakes when using cardio 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 intensive.
• 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 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 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?
Another common 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 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 why is it I often see people who use the
elliptical trainer exercising at a high speed? So what is the mistake? The
mistake is that they have set the resistant level too low.
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.
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.
Chris Chew fitness personal trainer of actors, male pageant winners,
models and celebrities. See his websites Free Fitness Tips and Be A Certified
Personal Trainer
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