One Workout, Two Fitness Goals: Circuit Training

One Workout, Two Fitness Goals: Circuit Training

Exercise is supposed to help us in achieving a fitness level to keep our bodies functioning properly for a longer period of time. However, the question is, “What’s the best way for doing that?” In today’s busy lifestyle, people are looking for a quick and effective workout system.

Circuit Training 101

Circuit training combines aerobics with strength training and provides you with a workout for your entire body in almost half the time compared to either type of conventional workouts. It doesn’t work harder but smarter.

Many people seem to feel skeptical when they hear something saying that it can take less time to do that what you’re habituated to doing. At some point of time, the professionals used to say that longer workout sessions could increase the fitness level. In case you haven’t attained a particular time limit, then it’s waste of time for you.

But according to fitness experts, this is not always the sole truth. It is possible to spend even less time working out, and still you can attain similar level of or sometimes even more effectiveness. This is what circuit training basically does.

You can think of it this way: suppose you have to run from the backdoor to the front door; it can be done quickly, right? Now suppose you have to run from the backdoor through the front door out across the field; then obviously to attain pace, you will have to slow down a bit. The main reason behind longer exercising is to bring the heart rate up and as per your age you keep it in the 70–80 percentile range while working out in the fat-burning zone.

Circuit training helps you work out fast within each interval. All throughout the program, the heart rate is maintained at an optimum level. If you are exercising for 30 minutes, then for the entire 30 minutes your body is in the target zone. If you are doing aerobics alone, out of the entire workout for 30 minutes, you might achieve that only for 15 minutes.

Circuit training facilitates to switch between strength training and cardio exercise. During the phase of strength training, you can repeat certain steps and comfortably time yourself. During aerobics, you can time yourself for one minute. When you become stronger, the aerobic phase may be lengthened.

With this exercising method, you can shift between different exercises without any rest. The strength training exercises rest the heart and the cardiac exercises rest your muscles. Within 20–30 minutes you can obtain a refreshing workout for your entire body.

In case you have scarcity of time, which is the case for most of us, you can concentrate on the upper part of the body one day with circuit training and the lower part on the following day. The only thing you should be careful about is to avoid weight-training on the same part of the body continuously for 2 days. It takes time for the muscle tissue to rebuild and repair for reaching its optimum health and thereby avoiding injury.

Combining weights with aerobics, circuit training provides a great way to attain a better and healthy body within a short time. It’s definitely a great workout scheme for busy people like you which not only suits your lifestyle but keeps you fit as well.

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4 thoughts on “One Workout, Two Fitness Goals: Circuit Training”

  1. It’s a first time when i hear about Circuit Training 101, but i’ll try it!
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  2. The ad on this site keeps showing a banana a food not to eat, is this true?

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  3. I’m not a fan of different training systems, now I’m having a course of b-flexy. Love it. And I see the effect.

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  4. A very different exercise, but feels good to me. I must try this.

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