Treadmill is excellent helper to those who need to reduce a lot of weight. It offers cardio workout, which reduces the fat in the entire organism due to the fact that motions which can be performed on a treadmill, walking and running engage the entire body and most of the muscle groups. That will definitely consume a lot of energy, thus eliminating the excessive fat tissue. Cardio workout is using low strength level and therefore, a treadmill session can last for a long time. Treadmill has several properties that make it a good choice for obese people. Speed of the floor pad can be changed and better models have a possibility of changing the incline, which can require additional effort from the practitioner.
Exercising
When having in mind that the treadmill offers walking and jogging, the question that arises is if there any treadmill workout ideas that make fitness fun. Well, when it comes to workout itself, it might be a bit hard to make it so fun, but it can be interesting. It is true that only walking or running 45 minutes or an hour with the same pace can be a bit boring. Not only that, this is something that should be avoided because fat burning process might be slowed down or even stopped at one moment, which tends to happen when the body becomes used to the physical activity which is repeated day after day. To avoid this, pace and incline should be alternated periodically. Even the pauses between changes should not be the same. With this rhythm, the body will not be able to go into automatic motion, there will always be something to break the monotony and to put the body in front of a new physical challenge. This is so-called interval training, when the continuous motion or exercise is splashed with some different physical activity, or the same one but with a different intensity (for example, jogging and sprinting).
Fun
As for the fun part, music is the most obvious thing to choose to motivate a person while exercising. If a workout is done at home, then a person can choose his or her favorite music, which can only make the exercising easier. Also, when a person becomes used to a treadmill, after some time, a book can be read or a TV can be watched, whatever a practitioner prefers.
- www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/gym-free-exercises/
- www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/easy-low-impact-exercises/
- Photo courtesy of Sport-Tiedje GmbH by Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cardiostrong_treadmill_TX50.jpg
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