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.
