3 Steps to Increase Your Cardiovascular Capacity!

I want you to imagine being in the best shape of your life. Do you ever think about what steps you should take to ensure the achievement of this goal? If so then you are in the right place. Implement the following 3 steps to take your cardiovascular fitness to a whole new level.

Step 1: Train For Strength And Power: This, believe it or not, is a huge way to improve your cardio. If I have said it once I’ve said it a thousand times, strength is THE necessary characteristic for you to accomplish any physical task! So by that notion the stronger you are then the fitter you can be. This makes perfect sense. Train your body to be stronger from head to toe!

Step 2: Train With High Intensity: This is real cardio! I don’t care if you are training with weights, doing calisthenics, or executing plyometrics you have to train with a high level of intensity. Cardio, in my opinion, is not getting on the treadmill for 2 hours. You do all of that running and you get nowhere. However, executing a hundred burpees or swinging a kettlebell for a couple of hundred reps will take your fitness level to all new heights!

Step 3: Be Mobile: In your strength and fitness training program you should be creative and incorporate whole-body movements in nearly everything you do. For optimal cardiovascular fitness, weight-loss, and fat-loss you must have a program that is creative and dynamic in nature. Even if you are looking to modify your weight-training or strength training program you must incorporate lifts that integrate many muscles at once and yield a high level of exertion. Lifts such as deadlifts, squats, cleans. sandbags, and kettlebells all fall within the context of being mobile.