How to increase cardio endurance?

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  • natalie412
    natalie412 Posts: 1,039 Member
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    Sorry people aren't actually reading your post! 30 Day Shred will help with cardio and strengthening, and since it is a pretty old DVD, you can pick it up super cheap - like under $10 on Amazon or elsewhere. You can take quick breaks if the asthma becomes a problem, perhaps.
  • dortress
    dortress Posts: 28 Member
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    I don't think the question is about WHAT to do (e.g., run, etc.) as much as HOW to do, to build endurance at ANY sort of cardio. And the answer is: intervallic training. On-Off- Hard-Easy, for a series of time. Since you're not at the stamina and endurance that you'd like right now, they simplest way to do intervallic work is a simple walk / jog. 1 minute walking, 30 secs jogging (or whatever limit you can do right now - even if that's just 5 seconds). Continue to work that cycle for a set period of time - 20 minutes total, for example. Then follow that intervallic work with another 15-20 of steady state - walking at a brisk pace. Every week, try to increase the amount of 'hard' time in the cycle.

    Over time, the intervallic work will dramatically increase your heart and body's ability to to endure longer and harder work in more conventional types of cardio (bicyle rides, jogging longer distances, etc.)

    This type of work will also help you get strong enough to do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), which is really about the same concept, only hard is HARD - you're trying to cycle your heart rate into the 90% range and then, during the rest portion of cycle, bring it back down. HIIT will help with stamina and endurance as well, in addition to amping up weight loss.

    This approach works with all types of cardio - THE HOW of what you want to do to build stamina.

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