YOGYAKARTA If you only allocate a little time for exercise, it is important to consider the type and intensity to remain effective. Many people exercise with their respective goals. Starting from simple desire to stay healthy, to forming muscles, fitness, and burning calories. For all these reasons, here are various sports that are effective and you can do with limited time.

Every sporting program must include cardiovascular exercise. The goal is to strengthen the heart and effectively burn calories. That's why walking is an effective kind of exercise. You can do it anywhere, anytime, and without needing any equipment except personal equipment that makes you comfortable walking.

"Doing a quick walk can burn up to 500 calories per hour," said Robert Gotlin, DO, director of orthopedic rehabilitation and exercise at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.

For beginners, it is necessary to start walking 5-10 minutes every time it lasts up to at least 30 minutes per session. Avoid adding more than 5 minutes each time you practice. It's better to add more time in advance than to increase speed or increase your incline on your treadmill.

interval exercise is also a cardio sport that can be done by beginners and who have been exercising for years. This is useful for increasing fitness and losing weight. Making speeds varied, helping stimulate the aerobic system to adapt. The greater the strength of the aerobic system, the greater the capacity you have for burning calories.

squats movement includes strength training. That means, effective for building muscles. Well, the greater the muscle capacity it has, the more effective the calories are.

Squat trains front thigh muscles, back thighs, and gluteal. This movement is good because it uses most muscle groups at once. To do so, open your legs as wide as your shoulders and back straight. Bend your knees and lower your back. As much as possible your knees should stay above the ankle. At the simplest, think about how you sit in the chair, it's just that the seat isn't there.

Like a squat, the lunge trains all the main muscles of the lower body, including gluteal, front thigh, and back thigh. Lungs not only helps shape muscles but also improve your balance. How to do so, take a big step forward, keep the spine in a neutral position. Bend your knees forward to about 90 degrees with a focus on maintaining the weight on your back leg and lowering your back knee to the floor.

If done properly, push-ups can strengthen the chest muscles, shoulders, triceptions, and even the stem core muscles, all at once. In addition to push-ups, the plank movement in a series of yoga poses, also helps form core strengths. Well, push-ups can be done at various levels. At beginners, you can start by pushing from the height of the kitchen table. The more gradually, look for lower focus to do push-ups on the floor.

Crunch is the best exercise for shaping the stomach muscle. For a standard crunch, start with the position of lying on your back and your knees are bent upwards, the soles of your feet facing the floor. This movement lifts the chest wrapped on the back of your head. But be careful, don't strain your neck when lifting your chest. Avoid holding your breath and keeping your elbows to your side so that your chest and shoulders remain open.

This exercise trains all the main muscles of the upper back as well as the bisep muscles. To do a good bent-over row movement, start with the standing position of the legs open as wide as the shoulder. Bend your knees and hips forward. It's like lowering the load by tilting your pelvis slightly forward. Involve the stomach muscles and span the upper spine to increase support. You can hold a dumb or shoulder-wide bell. An elbow clash, raise your hands to the side of the body.

Those are the seven kinds of sports that are effective in burning calories and fitness. Are there the types of training above that you have done regularly?


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