Bodyweight Cardio Exercises - Improve Your Heart Health & Create Your Own HIIT Workouts

To provide you with some extra motivation to do more cardio:

• I’ve created a short bodyweight video to give your some options that you can do in the privacy of your own home.

• I’m also going to remind you of the health benefits of cardio exercise, which include:

  • reducing your risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes, lower cholesterol levels, better blood circulation and blood pressure, more energy, faster metabolism - which helps with weight loss, improved mental health, and longer life expectancy

The minimum recommendations for cardiovascular exercise is 150 minutes of moderate cardio or 75 minutes of vigorous cardio per week.

These recommendations are coming from the American Heart Association, The Dept of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control.

These agencies also recommend 2 days of strength training per week.

HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts can help you to get your cardio and strength done faster and allows you to burn more calories during and after your workout is completed

One way you can create your own HIIT workout is to add 30 - 60 seconds of cardio after each strength exercise.

You can do as much or as little cario as you want but the idea is to repeatedly bring your heart rate up with cardio and then let it come down while you “actively recover” with your strength-based exercise.

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