Aerobic Exercise

How to Make Your Body Burn More Calories

Cardiovascular aerobic fitness training is the most important area of physical fitness.

Heart disease can be greatly reduced by those who exercise their aerobic system on a regular basis.

Examples of Aerobic Training include:

Walking, Cycling, and Jogging, indeed any exercise which makes your heart and lungs work harder, even dancing.

The easy way to decide if you are not  working hard enough or,  in the wrong training zone, is the talk test.  If you can hold a conversation easily, then you are not working hard enough, however, if you can't say  more than a couple of words, you may be working too hard.

What factors affect aerobic training?

Frequency, duration and intensity.

Frequency :  refers to how often you perform aerobic activity;

Duration refers to the time length of  each session, whilst the

Intensity: is how hard you are finding the training session.

High Intensity Aerobic Exercise

As well as the actual amount of calories burned during exercise – studies have shown that sustained, high-intensity exercise makes you burn more calories for several hours afterwards. This does mean High intensity exercise and is only liable to happen after a number of weeks training but the effort is worthwhile, as this type of training has an " after burn effect" which may last for a number of hours.