Elliptic Training

Elliptic Training – Suggested Workouts

Now you are on the right track.  You have bought an elliptical trainer and you are ready to exercise rigorously after you come home from work.  Elliptic training is probably the best thing that you can do for your body, as elliptical machines will allow you to work different parts and muscles of your body without the impact of the garden on your knees and joints.  (If you don’t have an elliptical you can always run and exercise outdoors but the impact on your knees and joints can create problems especially if you are past the middle age.)

There are various types of elliptical training suggested workouts that you can perform.  First, you will need to analyze your needs and what type of training that your body might require.  You would need to distinguish between cardiovascular workouts that will allow you to work your heart and lung muscles for better cardiovascular health or cross country workouts that will allow you to increase your general endurance.  There are different types of suggested workouts that also allow you to burn lots of calories for general fitness.  And last but not least the fourth workout program allows you to just exercise your body muscles for proper body tone and fitness for aesthetic purposes.

 The first type of work out is cardiovascular workout.  In this type of elliptical training, you start training on the RPE scale (Rate of Perceived Exertion) of three.  Thus, this minimal start up training will allow you to start toning your cardiovascular system. 

You will start at RPE 3 in the beginning of the workout and then you will gradually increase the resistance level up to RPE level 6 with 5 minutes intervals in each level between 3 and 6.  Especially for beginners it is recommended that you use this program for 28 to 30 minutes. 

After your cardiovascular system adjusts to this level of workout with the elliptical, you can gradually increase the total time of the workout up to 64 minutes.  This type of training is absolutely the best for your cardiovascular system and your heart endurance levels will improve considerably after performing this exercise.  However, like all fitness programs you should be careful in rigorous workouts especially if you have a pre-existing heart condition.  In those instances, you should definitely consult your physician before commencing to workout on your elliptical.  Here is the RPE scale that you can use for your cardiovascular workout to analyze yourself.

  
The second type of suggested workout for elliptical training is cross-country training. This allows you to work all parts of your muscles so that you get a more natural workout.  This type of workout is quite simple as you just have to place your elliptical in front of a window or in front of your TV with a natural hike out vide6.  Then you just use one of the programs for natural hiking in the woods and you continue evenly for an hours worth of time.  These cross-country training exercises and workouts with your ellipticals will allow you to experience wide range of motions and thus you would be working out all of your body muscles for general fitness.  Also cross-country training workout with your elliptical is perfect for increasing the general endurance of your body.  However, like the cardio vascular workout above, you should be careful before committing yourself to a rigorous exercise program and you should consult your physician.

The last type of suggested workouts for the elliptical trainer is for those stay home moms and women to just shape up their bodies for general muscle toning and fitness for beauty purposes.  You choose the programs that allow you to use the handlebars more rigorously in tandem with the pedals.  These types of exercises and elliptical workouts are perfect for losing that belly fat.  Although these training exercises will not do very much for your general fitness they, will allow you to burn those unnecessary calories and these workouts will target your belly fat for better tummy fitness and toning.  You can lose as much as 800 calories per hour with this training program.  However, no matter which workout that you choose, all of the suggested elliptical trainers workouts above will promote your general health.