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.