If you have been working on basic aerobic exercises for quite sometime now, it’s best that you move on to the next set of exercises. Cardio exercises are more intense compared to the aerobic exercises. These set of workouts are near the limit of the heartbeat rate. The aerobic exercises on the other hand are simple exercises and doesn’t require a higher heartbeat rate. Aerobic doesn’t really have a targeted area, since you are targeting what’s inside and those are the calories. On the other hand cardio targets specific areas. Your heart, cardiovascular system and your lungs are harnessed through sets of exercises.

The first benefit of the cardio exercises in your body is that it will increase your stamina that still continues after the said work out. The lungs will contract and will easily expand. To accommodate more air and use them in a better level is the quiet effect of this type of exercise. The bigger and the better effect of cardio exercise is the ability of the heart to create more oxygenated air. Since the blood will be pumped faster, with better air, you’ll be having a healthier feeling as the nutrients in our body are transported faster.

Since you’ll be working out a little bit harder, the body will now burn calories faster. This is good and bad at the same time. Good in the sense that we are burning calories faster compared to walking or jogging. With a more strenuous exercise, you’ll feel stronger as your work outs are now on the next level. But be sure that you have to control the heartbeat rate in your body because if you go overboard to the rate in your body, instead of burning calories you are now burning carbohydrates. The burned carbs are not for weight loss but for the development of the muscles on the parts that we are working on. Because of this you are not burning the things that makes you fat. But it could also be at your own advantage. Since you are now growing bigger and better muscles, the muscles will require calories in order for them to be maintained. Without calories it will still burn carbohydrates but you really don’t need them to burn those essential nutrients.

So upgrade your workout. Try swimming, or through rowing. With an adrenaline rush that will last for more than 15 minutes, you’ll have more than what you have asked as you grow healthier, leaner but better.