If you want to workout to the highest level of efficiency, you need to learn how to understand and control your heart rate. It can make all the difference when it comes to your capacity to burn fat, and tone your body.
Heart rate training is a workout regimen in which you workout in such a way and at such a sustained level, that you reach your target heart rate for much of the time you spend exercising. It is intended to strengthen the muscle that is your heart, and in so doing, cause the body to use oxygenated blood more efficiently and get more of it to your cells.
This stimulates an increased metabolic rate, something desired by athletes in training as well as people seeking to lose weight in a healthy way. With this knowledge, you will need to know what your target area is for doing this type of training.
The easiest way to find this is take the number 220 if you are male, or the number 226 if you are female, and from this number subtract your age. The resulting number is your maximum heart rate, which is measured in beats per minute.
If you are indeed trying lose body fat, the lower your target zone the better. Next, take your maximum heart rate and multiply that number by either fifty or sixty percent.
The result is the number of beats per minute that you want to get up to in your workout. This zone is ideal for novice exercisers, and for people who have become out of shape, and are re-training.
It has a more decreased risk of injury. You should try to sustain this level for at least twelve minutes.
The next level up from where you are is called the training zone. This zone has similar goals, but you are now seeking to actually get more fit, not just lose or keep off weight, so there is some more intensity to the level of exercise.
In this zone, you want to reach about sixty to seventy percent of your maximum. You want to sustain this heart rate for at least twenty minutes.
If you are an already athletic person who wants to maximize your performance level in your sports, you need to bring yourself into a higher pacing zone. In the lower two, your goal is to sustain the target heart rate for thirty to sixty minutes.
The lowest of these three is the Aerobic Zone. In this area, the goal is to increase your endurance, meaning you can perform a physical task at a high level for a longer period of time. You will not become winded quite as easily, and you should not slow down or stop for rests.
If you do this, your heart will actually strengthen and enlarge-it will be able to pump more blood per minute in this way. The target place you want to be here is anywhere from seventy to eighty percent of your maximum.
Your body will begin burning less fat for its caloric fuel, and it will begin burning off protein, so that muscles get torn down. They will rebuild when you are recovering, and they will become stronger than they were before.
The next level up is the anaerobic area, or without oxygen. The goal here is to elevate your VO2 maximum, which is the most oxygen you are capable of taking in during the workout.
You will also increase your muscles' tolerance for lactic acid buildup, so that you will breathe better, have a higher endurance and strength level, and make faster recoveries from becoming winded. If you want to begin to train your heart to perform in this way, try running, biking, or even jumping on a trampoline.
Just because you are working out does not mean that you can't have fun in the process. Find an activity that you enjoy, and apply these principles into that process.
Then, while you are having fun, you will also be burning fat and building muscle at maximum capacity. Your exercise times will pass by much more quickly, and you will love the new body that begins to show through-today is the perfect day to start.
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