Fat Loss Techniques for Your Workouts: Cardio-Resistance

To continue your goal of losing fat and building muscle with your workouts you need to add in forms of exercise variety. Variety simply means to make a change that modifies your existing workout to keep it working for you.

This article will cover a form of variety called, cardio-resistance. Cardio-resistance means to incorporate short bouts of high intensity cardio exercise within your resistance exercise workouts.

By incorporating short bouts of high intensity cardio in your workout you’ll be throwing in some great calorie and fat burning strategies. One way you can do this is in the form of a mini-circuit. That is, you’ll do 3-4 resistance exercises one-after-another followed by a 30-90 second cardio burst exercise. Here is an example:

1) Push-ups for 12 repetitions

2) Pull-ups for 12 repetitions

3) Alternating leg lunges for 12 repetitions

4) Cardio-burst: boxing punches (either using a heavy bag or shadow boxing)

You can do this mini-circuit for 3-4 sets resting only 30-60 seconds between the circuits.

*For more of these workout tips and strategies check out our Xpress Workouts website!