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5 Tips to Achieve an Efficient Cardio Workout
How to get an efficient cardio workout
The KOMPAN Fitness Bike allows you to exercise with a wide range of workloads.
The bike makes it easy to do very quick changes to the workload – either by changing pedaling speed or by changing the effort level. This makes the bike perfectly suited for scientifically-proven efficient training methods leading to ways of training that require less time and are more fun.
Remember to Warm Up
Always warm up for about 5 minutes. Choose a workload that is not too hard, but is still challenging enough to increase your heart rate and body temperature.
5 exercises for an efficient cardio workout
#1 - 10-second intervals
Sprint for 10 seconds as fast as you can.
Then pedal for 50 seconds at a very easy pace.
Repeat 10 times.
Note that the 10 second sprint must be an all-out effort.
Total duration: 15 minutes.
#2 - 30-second intervals
Bike at a very high workload for 30 seconds. The workload must be at your maximum for the full 30 seconds.
Then pedal at an easy pace for 1.5 minutes.
Repeat 8 times.
Total duration: 21 minutes.
#3 - 1-minute intervals
Bike at a relatively hard pace for 1 minute. The pace must be hard enough for your breathing to be markedly increased by the end of the minute.
Then go slow for another minute.
Repeat this 8 times.
Total duration: 21 minutes.
#4 - 3-minute intervals
Bike at a moderately hard pace for 3 minutes. You should be just above “the talk threshold”, which means that longer sentences will be noticeably disrupted by breathing.
Then go 2 minutes at an easy pace.
Repeat this four times.
Total duration: 25 minutes.
#5 - continuous exercise
Find the highest workload you can maintain for the entire exercise period.
Do a total of 20 minutes after the warm-up.
Total duration: 25 minutes.
