| A cardiovascular exercise program is needed when | | | | you are increasing results and performance. You will |
| you are planning to compete in a marathon, sporting | | | | look back in your notebook and visually see your |
| event or even if you just want to get yourself in better | | | | progress from when you started, it feels good to see. |
| condition than your current fitness level for personal | | | | Now that you know where you stand when it comes |
| and health reasons. | | | | to your personal cardiovascular fitness level, you have |
| When developing a cardiovascular exercise program, | | | | something to work with. Fitness and performance are |
| you first need to test your current cardiovascular | | | | based on mathematics and science. This means that |
| fitness levels, and then you need to devise a plan to | | | | mathematically it is possible for anyone to improve his |
| slowly increase the intensity and duration of your | | | | or her cardiovascular exercise fitness wheather you |
| cardio workouts to increase your fitness performance. | | | | are a beginner or an advanced professional athlete. |
| To create your our cardiovascular exercise program, | | | | You will always increase your results as you lower the |
| first you will need to test your current level of | | | | amount of rest you get or you increase the amount of |
| cardiovascular fitness, there are a few exercise tests | | | | reps, weight lifted or distance you ran in a specific |
| that you can perform to calculate this with. It helps if | | | | amount of time, or you do both, you will always keep |
| you have a treadmill to use, most gyms will have a | | | | progressing. But if you ignore your notebook and |
| treadmill. | | | | progress reports you will have trouble ever improving |
| If you don't have a treadmill, go to a track found | | | | and you will stop improving in your cardiovascular |
| around football or soccer fields, many schools will have | | | | exercise program. |
| a 1/4 mile track to run around on the weekend. Time | | | | You should plan to workout at least 3 times a week |
| how long it takes you to run one mile, take a notebook | | | | for 45 minutes to one hour for 4-6 weeks to see |
| so you can record your times and progress during | | | | good results in your cardiovascular exercise program. |
| your cardiovascular exercise program. | | | | Test your current level of fitness and keep track of |
| The purpose for keeping track of your times in a | | | | your progress in a notebook. |
| cardiovascular exercise program notebook is because | | | | Over time reduce the amount of rest you need and |
| as you become more fit you will get faster, and you | | | | increase the amount of work you do in a specific time |
| will be able to run longer distances with less effort. | | | | to increase your results. Mathematically you will always |
| As you keep track of your workouts you will be able | | | | be able to increase you fitness, so go for it. |
| to run a mile in less time and take less rest meaning | | | | |