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Introducing Circuit Training In Cardio Training Routines
Before derivative training strategies in weight lifting started using the circuit training strategy, circuit training was purely a form of aerobic weight training. It incorporates both aerobic and weight training methods to stimulate body fitness, muscle definition and fat loss. Rather than be complex as many body builders tend to believe it is, circuit training works very easily but effectively.
Let us see how a single workout of circuit training should go, so that you understand the component and requirements of a circuit training program better and more practically. You should begin by setting up a particular number of phases. Each phase should have different exercises such that the whole session has a variety of many exercises each targeting particular muscles but comprehensively working out the entire physique. Such exercises might include the bench, pull downs, both arm and leg curls and many others.
After that, ensure that use exclusively light training weights. These weights should be as light as to allow you perform lifting exercises for many reps (over 20) without reaching absolute muscle failure. This is not endurance training but cardio training and the objective is not to stimulate growth but to tone and lean the muscles.
Consequently, you should the exercise for an extended duration, each one lasting for a continuous period or pre-specified time. A good way to time the exercises would be a single minute for every exercise, giving up to four minutes to each phase of the training session. After you are done with the training phases, which ideally should be about four or five, you should repeat cycle again for at least 3 times. One cycle should last up to 16-20 minutes, repeated three times to get a range of 48-60 minutes for the entire training session.
Too achieve such a duration, it is important that you mix the weight exercises with treadmill work, do some skipping exercises, add on some minutes for cycling and such aerobic exercises. As we said in the beginning, it is about incorporating both aerobic and weight lifting exercises into the same training session, all simultaneously targeting cardiovascular attainment. Variety is therefore the key, making the training routine both exciting and refreshing, besides effective in achievement of the training goals such as fat loss or muscle definition.
Circuit training as part of body building training is a pretty reasonably strategy that incorporates both aerobic workouts in weight training routines simultaneously, and like any hybrid, the results are better that if each was exclusively harnessed. For instance, unlike weight training routines, it trains you cardiovascular system to perfection, achieves that lean toning for muscles and loses fat fast. Similarly, unlike exclusive cardio training, circuit training works out the entire body unlike popular cardio routines which only train the legs.
So as you progress through a weight training program, it is important that once in a while. For at least once in a week, you perform a circuit training session, to augment the gains achieved in weight training sessions.
About the Author Dane Fletcher is the world-wide authority on bodybuilding and steroids. He has coached countless athletes all over the world. To read more of his work, please visit either http://www.BodybuildingToday.com or http://www.SteroidsToday.com
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