Cardio

"What type of cardio should I do and how fast should I go?"

The answer to the first question is very simple: you should do the type of cardio you like the most (or dislike the least). You may have heard that the best vegetable is the one you eat, the same goes for cardio training. If you don’t like running, you will never stick to it and will never train cardio. If you like rowing, then please go ahead and row.

Of course, individual limitations like knee pain or tendinitis must be taken into account. You may avoid running if you have known knee issues, and you should let your tendinitis heal before you can start rowing. You just need to find something you can and see yourself doing on the long term, and start moving.

How fast you should go will depend on your current condition. In our method, we are not concerned with running a marathon or breaking records, we just want to keep a healthy heart.

Generally, you can use the talking method: if you can talk comfortably without having to catch your breath, you are going too slow. If you cannot talk at all, you are going too fast. Try and find a pace where you can talk but still need to catch your breath after each sentence.

And please reassess yourself often. You will improve, your tolerance for cardio exercise will increase, and you will need to increase the pace accordingly over time to make sure you always challenge yourself.

If you still can’t find any type of cardio you like, then there is a lot of tricks you can use like watching series or listening to podcasts while you train.

Anyway please remember the hardest part is to start, after that it gets easy. You just have to trust us on this one!