Dance Your Way to an Aerobics Exercise Routine
An aerobics exercise routine should fit your fitness level. A sample of a beginning aerobics exercise routine follows. Day One Start your aerobics exercise routine with an easy walk, about 20 minutes. Walk in the park, on the beach, in a grassy area or in the country. Try to stay away from pollution. Walk at a pace where you can keep up a conversation. Cool down after your walk with fifteen minutes of stretching. As you become more active, your body will increase its metabolism. Day Two Stretch your muscles for fifteen minutes. Or go swimming for ten or fifteen minutes. Day Three Stretch. Increase your walking speed for twenty five minutes. Stretch for fifteen as a cool down. Day Four Repeat day two for at least twenty minutes. Stretch for 10 minutes. Day Five Walk for longer period or take a break and don't walk.. Day Six Continue your aerobics exercise routine by walking fast for thirty minutes. Stretch to loosen up if muscles begin to tighten. Continue walking, ending with a ten minute cool down stretch. Day Seven This is your day off if you didn't take a day during the week. You can take an easy walk, stretch or some form of light activity. Continue this aerobics exercise routine for as long as it takes you to not loose your breath while walking for thirty minutes. It will take from 2 to 4 weeks for you to become adjusted to this routine. Now you're ready for a more brisk walk. Walk briskly for thirty minutes to burn fat. Six to Eight Weeks Add a strength training program to your aerobics exercise routine. You add the intensity level depending on how your body feels and your ability. You can add running or jogging in place of walking in your aerobics exercise routine at this point. Aerobics exercise routines are low impact, high impact or a combination of both. Low impact aerobic exercise routine are gentler on the body and feet. You will always have one foot on the ground. A high impact aerobics exercise routine is the opposite. You do a vigorous routine with aggressive moves to increase your heart rate. Combining the two types of aerobics exercise routines you get the low impact benefits of long stretch warm up with the fat burning of a high impact routine. Stages Aerobics exercise routines are offered in three different stages. They include the low impact, high impact or the combination of the two. Low impact aerobic exercise routine is designed to put less stress on the lower body and feet. With this type, the steps are designed so that one foot remains on the ground at all times. Injuries like shin splints are minimized with a low impact routine. This aerobics exercise routine, though, doesn't offer a vigorous workout to increase heart level for an optimal rate. The exact opposite happens with a high impact aerobics exercise routine. Your feet are rarely required to be on the ground at the same time with the movements of the high impact routine. A high impact aerobics exercise routine calls for aggressive routines that increase the heart rate to allow for a maximum aerobic workout. Caution against injuries should be taken when doing a high-impact aerobics exercise routine. When feet hit the exercise surface area, injury may result from the sudden contact. By wearing good aerobic shoes and doing the exercising on specially designed shock absorbing floors the risk of injury can be lessened. The combination high impact and low impact aerobic exercise routine is probably the best to participate in. Combining the warm up period of the low impact routine and then increasing the heart rate through high impact routine makes this a popular choice.
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