- What's up guys, it's Chris Heria, welcome to another vlog.
Today I'm gonna be showing you the eight best
cardio exercises that you can do absolutely anywhere.
Now a lot of people think that they can just lift
and they don't need cardio
or that they don't have to do it
because they're already skinny enough
or they don't want to do it
because they're afraid of losing muscle.
Well let me start off by saying every professional athlete
utilizes cardio from a professional fighter
to a professional football player.
Of course it can be good for losing weight,
but cardio has a lot more benefits than just that.
First off, cardio increases the strength in your heart
and your lungs.
That's gonna build your cardiovascular endurance
and that's actually gonna help you gain muscle in the gym.
With more cardiovascular endurance,
you'll be able to push past the point where you used
to fatigue, causing you to tear way more muscle fibers
than you used to
and because you've increased your endurance,
you can have more energy in your workouts,
increasing the intensity on how you train.
Now cardio isn't running, cycling, swimming,
or even spending hours on the treadmill.
You can do cardio in one place
just by choosing body weight exercises
that will bring your heart rate up
and low impact enough that will allow you
to maintain a steady pace for time.
Now the cardio style exercises I'm about to show you
work not only to burn fat and increase endurance,
but also engage many muscles
in your body including the smaller muscles
which are often neglected.
They'll help assist you to perform harder exercises
and make you look way more shredded.
So now you guys know why you need to be doing cardio,
let's get right into the eight exercises.
All right, now this is only gonna take a couple minutes
so I want you guys to follow along with me.
Now for any of these exercises
that you don't feel comfortable with doing,
just do one of the other exercises
for a longer period of time, but I did select exercises
that you can just jump right into.
They don't take or need any prior training experience.
So with that being said,
every exercise is gonna be for 30 seconds.
We're gonna start off light,
the first one being jumping jacks.
Let's go for it.
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Whew!
Nice little warm-up.
Next, moving on to one of my favorite exercises, burpees.
For this move, you can choose to go at your own pace,
choosing not to do a push-up if you don't feel comfortable
at the bottom or not jumping as high
if you're just a beginner,
but remember you should always try to push yourself,
of course without sacrificing your form.
Let's go for it.
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Whew, all right, there you have burpees,
let's drop to the ground.
Moving on to the next exercise,
we're gonna be going for bicycles.
Remember, keep a steady pace, but maintain the form.
Regulate your breathing.
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If you're having trouble breathing through these,
this is a very good indicator that you need
to be doing more, a lot more of cardio, a lot more of this.
All right, moving on to the next exercise.
Switching up the plane and the angle
and engaging your muscles from a different position.
We're gonna jump in and out, with these in and outs,
open and close.
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Remember to regulate your breathing,
in through your nose,
out through your mouth.
Whew, you guys should be feeling it now.
Almost there.
All right, right about now, starting to break a sweat.
Next exercise, side to side jump squats.
We're gonna choose a line on the ground and hop right over.
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Whew, all right, let's bring it back down to the ground.
We're gonna be going shoulder to shoulder.
So we're gonna touch one side, other side,
shoulders, sides, hips, knees,
and finally, your feet.
That's gonna be one rep.
30 seconds, let's go for it.
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Knee, knee, foot, foot.
Here we go, shoulder, shoulder,
side, side, hip, hip,
knee, knee, foot, foot.
All right, let's bring it back up.
We're almost done,
we're gonna be going into switching lunges.
Now we have two more exercises left,
if you feel at this point you're feeling a bit fatigued,
take a second to catch your breath,
slow down your pace, but don't stop.
Let's go for it.
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Whew, all right, we have made it to the end.
Last exercise, we're gonna be going for high knee runs.
This is gonna be the last exercise,
I want you guys to give it everything you got.
Bring your knees up as high as you can,
I want your knees to your elbows.
Let's go for it.
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Whew, that's gonna complete round one.
If you're able to complete that, that's a great start,
but eventually you wanna build your endurance
to be able to do two rounds, three rounds,
eventually four rounds of this.
And you're gonna start seeing some incredible results
and remember, every pro athlete utilizes cardio.
So if you wanna be like the pros,
you gotta train like the pros.
And of course to get this workout
and full access to my personal workouts
and workout programs,
make sure you've downloaded my Heria Pro app
in the App Store or Google Play Store.
You're gonna get full access to my workouts
and workout programs that are just like these
that I create on a daily and weekly basis
with specific goals in mind, like burning fat
and building solid, lean muscle.
So if you're trying to get in the best shape of your life,
download the Heria Pro app in the App Store
or Google Play Store if you haven't already
and get me as a personal trainer in your pocket
and start seeing some real results,
not just looking strong, but actually being strong.
And that's gonna cut it for today's video, guys,
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Listen to it while you train on all platforms,
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and with that said, I'll see you guys next Thursday,
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Mad love.
Peace out.
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