People always ask me how to turn simple exercises more complex so I thought I would write a quick little article on it too.
Before you begin, it is important to note that with a doctor before any exercise routine of any kind, regardless of your age, and see no matter what your health history.
Ok, now law. This is a little trick I use when the weather is too bad to go jogging outside (yes, like me, as my main jogTraining method of choice for most of the time). The exercise bike. The exercise bike old faithful. Solid, useful, boring.
But not anymore. The next time you step up to the old bike to try this out. Instead of clinging to the handlebars while riding, but keep your arms as if you were jogging.
You can swing your arms like jogging, but do not overdo it. It can also be small dumbbells in each hand, if you really want to increase this training. ButThat does not really have to do either. As, in order to keep your arms as if you were jogging. Have yet to swing it and keep it constant. Natural rhythm is not doing its thing.
What is the meaning of this (absolutely ridiculous next to us)? Simply putting your arms up and not the driver has to blow off the whole exercise into a super-charged body.
Do not you believe that something as simple as holding the arms and not with the handlebars would increase the workout by so much, but it really does! First off, it's a great workout for your lower back and abdomen area. Keeping your balance as you sit on the bike without holding the handle bars is a lot harder than you might think. That strain works wonders on the lower back.
It also does a nice job toning your upper chest area (think pecs) and upper back. The act of holding your arms up like you were jogging for the entire workout might not seem like much, but it really does a nice job working those muscles.
Finally, your legs get a greater workout as well because it's harder to peddle when the bike itself is not supporting most of your weight. Normally you sort of drape yourself over the handle bars and those handle bars take a bunch of your weight. When you hold your arms up and not use the handle bars, a bunch of that weight gets transferred to your legs and the peddles.
Hence it's harder to peddle and hence you get a better workout.
The only downside to this is that you really do look silly. If you work out in your basement that doesn't really matter, but if you work out in a gym with others, you might get a few stray looks.
But it's worth it to turn that old stodgy exercise bike into a massive workout machine that really boosts your cardio workout all around.
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