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Effective and healthy weight loss exercise is based on progressive resistance principle.  However, some people claim that progression in exercise will increase the risk of injury.  Some said that they are just best in maintaining same type of weight loss exercise with same intensity as they have benefited from them.

Once you understand the concept of healthy weight loss and right exercise, you will know that there are 3 common misconceptions people used to have about progression in weight loss exercise:

1) We have to Run to Burn Calories
In fact, you are no need to run to burn calories in any weight loss exercise.  Some people believe that only running can burn calories because of the intensity.  Yes, running is very intense and it places high demand on the heart to pump blood to the working muscles.

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It is no doubt that cardiovascular exercise brings a number of health benefits, including healthy weight loss when performed on a regular basis.  However, we need to make progression in cardiovascular exercise if you want to have good results in healthy weight loss.  Of course, we need to understand how oxygen transportation system works in our body before you agree with what I suggest and start the program in losing weight.

When you perform cardiovascular exercise, say jogging, your large muscles in the lower body require oxygen to perform the activity.  So, the heart will pump the blood which contains oxygen to the particular working muscles.  Your heart rate is elevated at that moment.  However, when time goes by, once the body is efficient at supplying oxygen to the working muscles, it does not have to work as hard as before and thus will burn fewer calories.  When you are in a program for weight loss, you want to burn more calories, right?  Therefore, you must also make progression in your cardiovascular exercise so that you can succeed in a healthy weight loss.

Below are few options to make progression in the cardiovascular exercise:
1) Increase the Speed
When you increase the speed, you will increase the intensity of the cardiovascular exercise.  It is better if you invest a heart rate monitor besides other exercise equipments so that you will know when it is the time to adjust your speed when you do any cardiovascular exercise, whether a walk outside or on a treadmill, or the revolutions per minute on a bike, or elliptical trainer.  If you do not have one, then you can take a manual heart rate.

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We know that an effective weight loss exercise in a healthy weight loss program is based on a principle called progressive resistance.  Besides 5 ways mentioned in last progressive resistance article, there are 5 more ways of doing progressive resistance purposely for SPRI Exercise Tubing.  It is important to know this as is a good choice when you are on your journey.  With SPRI exercise tubing, always go from yellow to green, red, blue and finally purple tube.

Normally, when we practice standing exercise using SPRI exercise tubing, we will perform in a stance referred as staggered stance. It means you place one foot forward, with another foot back about one to one and a half feet.  With this stance, you will use more of the gluteal muscles, which are the largest muscles of your body.  As such, you will recruit more muscle tissues and oxygen during the exercise.  During the workout, you place your right foot in front of left foot for the first 5 repetitions, and exchange your foot for the remaining 5 repetitions of workout.

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