Tips on How to Improve Your Cardio Workouts
By Dane C. Fletcher

Body builders usually have a problem in burning their body fats, mainly because the body builder’s diet incorporates more calories than is burnt in the weight exercises. This helps actually in facilitating growth and weight gain. It is therefore advisable to incorporate a cardio routine as part of the body building program to augment the fat loss objective. And it is not just some three minutes of cardio exercises we are talking about here, but a session of training, almost a whole workout by itself.

This is why. The body usually starts consuming the fat deposits in metabolic synthesis only after a period of consistent cardio exercise, optimally 20-25 minutes as dependent on the individual’s metabolic rate. As such, if you are intent on loosing body fat content, then it would be advisable to keep the cardio exercises going for 30-40 minutes at the very minimal. A cardio workout in a moderate to high intensity level, when maintained for 40 minutes can do wonders fore the body builder, towards a ripped physique.

Before you star on the cardio exercises, remember that your muscles are terse, tout, rigid and inflexible. So as a rule, always stretch the muscles before you start on the cardio exercises to help build up blood presence in the muscles and remove their rigidity. A good stretch done just before a cardio session should include calves stretches, the quads and hamstrings too, for these are major muscles targeted at during cardio exercises. If you fail to stretch, within five minutes into the cardio session, there will be pain in the muscles and injuries might result.

Again, it is important to amplify the training intensity during cardio sessions, building up as the session progresses. For instance, start the session with a gradual, short walk before braking into a speedy walk all the way to a jog. A jog is of moderate intensity and then you can climb to high intensity levels by running at full speed. When you reach the ultra intensity level, it is advisable that you don’t stop all over a sudden. Reduce the intensity level moderately up to the end of the cardio session, starting easy, building up and then stopping at an easy cyclical pace.

The cardio session should there be something like a graph that starts at 0 and takes time to rise to 100, take some time at 100 and then takes as much time to lower back to 0 as it did to rise to 100. At the very end, your cardio session should ideally have achieved moderate intensity for the 50% of the session, high intensity for 40% of the session and low intensity for 10% of the session.

Finally, for those body builders who really need to loose some body fat and get ripped to the max, cardio training should not be the exclusive strategy adopted towards that end. Cardio exercises can never lean out your physique in isolation. Actually, cardio training is only but 10% of the fat loss equation. 90% of the equation is in nutrition. Eat right, maintain the diet and then put in the cardio. Cardio exercises with poor dieting will not get you ripped.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit http://www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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