Circuit Training and Heart Health
When someone mentions the words ‘heart health’ as related to exercise, most people assume that walking on the treadmill, elliptical, bike or step mill for twenty or forty minutes three to four times per week is the only way to help improve the condition of the heart. Well what if I told you that 
improving overall heart health doesn’t necessarily have to be as monotonous an activity as spinning your wheels on a piece of cardio equipment? You can get the same cardiovascular benefits and also improve your heart’s muscular strength and endurance while not being bored to tears by incorporating circuit training into your routine!
Circuit training is a form of resistance training using your bodyweight, weights, machines, bands or any other form of equipment that causes a strain on the musculoskeletal system, and then performing these exercises in succession with limited rest periods between exercises and/or sets. For example, a sample bodyweight routine could look something like this:
- (20) pushups followed by;
- (40) bodyweight squats followed by;
- (40) crunches followed by;
- (100) jumping jacks
Perform each exercise with no rest in between. Take a short one-minute rest after the jumping jacks, and then repeat the above three more times.
Circuit training is another viable option that will help improve heart health, while also helping to increase muscular strength and endurance. It’ll also help take the usual boredom out of traditional cardiovascular programs.
Nick Cerone
Fitness Director
THE GYM ARMONK
99 Business Park Drive
Armonk, NY 10504
(P) 914-219-1601
ncerone@gettothegym.com
www.GetToTheGym.com/
Adam has worked in the local news industry for the past two decades in Westchester County and the broader Hudson Valley. Read more from Adam’s author bio here.