Best Home Cardio For Fast Fat Loss
By: Shannon Clark
More and more people are starting to prefer performing home workouts as a way to stay in shape rather than going to the gym each day before or after work. Home workouts are nice because they are convenient and can be done at any time – you’re not bound by the time that your local gym happens to be open.
That said, one aspect of home workouts that many people do struggle with is how to get their cardio in. If you own a treadmill, elliptical, or bike, it’s not difficult to get the cardio training in that you need, but if you don’t own these pieces of equipment and have to rely on creativity, you may struggle along a bit more.
Here are some of the best home cardio options that you can use for fast fat loss.
Best Home Cardio Option #1: Running Stairs
Running stairs is potentially one of the most intense calorie burners that will really allow you to get fast fat loss progress. Doing stairs will also work the glutes, hamstrings, calves, and abs, making it a fantastic way to strengthen the lower body muscles while working your cardiovascular system and torching calories at the same time.
If you happen to live in an apartment that has a longer stairway this option works perfect for you, but even if you just live in a house, running up and down your own staircase will prove to be effective as well.
If you tire out too quickly after one or two trips up and down, just keep moving – walk, step and down off the bottom stair -whatever you want to do, just don’t stop.
Best Home Cardio Option #2: Skipping
The second option for best home cardio is skipping. Skipping is also extremely intense and will burn almost as many – almost more calories than running does.
The only issue with skipping is few people are able to actually skip for longer than 10 minutes straight so you need to do it in bursts.
Over time you should be able to work your way up to doing ten straight minutes but don’t be too hard if at first you’re doing one minute one, one minute off, and so on. It’s an exercise you definitely do need to ease into. Just try and keep moving during the time you’re not skipping so you’re not at a complete standstill.
Also be sure you’re wearing very good running shoes and avoid jumping on cement to help protect your knees.
Best Home Cardio Option #3: Step-Ups
Step-ups are traditionally used as a strength training movement to help develop the lower body, however they can also be used for cardio as well.
The only adjust you’ll make with this is that rather than using a heavy weight and only doing step-ups so you’re performing 5-10 reps, you keep performing them using only your body weight.
You can do a series of 25 set-ups leading with one foot and then once you’re ready, switch over to the alternate foot after that’s finished.
As long as you keep yourself moving, you’ll get great results from this form of fat loss cardio as well and it is slightly easier to use if you have limited space (since all you really need is a firm chair to step up on).
Best Home Cardio Option #4: Walking
Finally, the fourth option for the best home cardio is simple walking. While you may not really be able to do this one in your home per say, everyone can walk outside (unless you live in an unsave environment – then you should go somewhere that you do feel safe).
Walking isn’t going to burn an extremely high number of calories but it will still burn some and that may be exactly what you need to start seeing fat loss results.
Remember that all forms of cardio will count (even 10 minute bursts throughout the day) so never underestimate the effects this small amount will have on your overall goals.
So don’t make your lack of exercise equipment become an excuse for you not doing cardio. As long as you’re making the effort and getting creative, there’s no reason why you can’t include proper home cardio to help you reach your goals.
Do you have any home cardio methods you’d like to share?
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