Guide To Summer Cardio

Optimising Summer Cardio: Everything You Need To Know

Cardiovascular exercise, also known as cardio, is any form of exercise that gets you sweating and your heartbeat raising. Providing a large range of different exercises to tale advantage of in the hotter seasons.

At FitFarms Hollywood we include a wide variety of exercise in our daily schedule. Including Zumba, dance, swimming, HIIT workouts, circuit training, hiking, stretching and more. We find the wide range of exercises we provide allows you to identify which exercises you really enjoy, and it has mirrored in customers sustainable results past the residential retreats.

Cardio is great from low to high intensity, helping to improve endurance and sets you up for a sustainable weight loss. Whether you’re starting or trying to enhance your exercise journey, highlighting the importance of progression from the start is key. Allowing you to mindfully have targets and goals in place to climb the ladder of improvement and resilience towards your goals.

Benefits of Cardio

Cardio improves metabolism, benefits mental health, enhances quality of sleep, boosts weight loss, increases energy, lowers blood pressure along with so many other health benefits and prevents various health issues. So, including cardio in your weekly schedule will be represented in lots of different areas of life.

What Kind of Cardio Can You Try Out?

Running or jogging is the most known form of cardio. Interval training is a fantastic way to gradually get into jogging, offering a perfect starting point for building your endurance and fitness levels. Running is a great sport to take advantage of in the summer, offering a outside exercise that you can alter and enjoy in the sun! Burning high calories, it’s a good go to exercise to have in your regime.

Swimming is also a great form of cardio, offering all levels of intensity and providing a full body workout. Classes like water aerobics offer a fun form of exercise and a terrific way to meet people and enjoy the exercise you do! Local gyms often have several different water exercise classes on offer, providing a great form of fitness along with the opportunity to indulge in fun, group classes. If your fortunate enough to live near wild swimming centres, the sea or anywhere you can swim outdoors it offers a refreshing full body burn during the hotter months.

The same with dancing. There are thousands of dance classes available across the country, in local gyms, parks and community halls. Providing a fun form of exercise, getting your blood pumping, and burning high amounts of calories. Also offering a sustainable approach through prompting a weekly, motivated exercise schedule.

Other cardio exercises include cycling, walking, aerobics and zumba, all effective and ranged forms of keeping fit.