My take is - the exercise or activity you love and have interest to do, would be your best .....
Why?
Because you would look forward to doing it and won't likely miss (or "play truant") a session and would likely stayput in the program long, to achieve your goal- either to lose weight or to maintain good health.
Since you achieve your (exercise) goal, wouldn't you say it's the best cardio workout for you?
Hence, if you love to run, run then.
If you like biking, bike by all means.
Or if you prefer swimming, then swim all you want.
Perhaps you like to walk? Go for it.
As long as you love the exercise and enjoy doing it, it makes all the diffrence. You've a higher chance of sticking to the cardio program and succeed.
To make it even better, mix your cardios up, to provide varieties so you aren't bored easily.
OK. You got the best cardio in tow.
Now, you would like to know how many calories it burns, right?
Check it out below if your best cardio burns the most calories, in a 30-minute session:
1. Biking (stationary or outdoor) - depending on resistance and speed, you can burn 250 to 500 calories
2. Step aerobics - you can burn off about 400 calories
3. Swimming - if you do the breast stroke, you can burn up to 400 calories
4. Running - you can burn up to 300 calories
5. Walking - if you brisk walk, you can burn up to 200 calories. If you add sprints, hills or an incline, you burn even more calories
6. Rowing - you can burn about 300 calories
7. Rock climbing - you can burn up to 380 calories
If you're well-trained in cardio and want to go for real high intensity one that burns the most calories, I recommend these 2 exercises:
a. Rope jumping - a very intense cardio workout as in a 15-minute session, you can burn up to 200 calories
b. Sprinting - you burn serious amount of calories like up to 300 in a 30-minute session. It also elevates your metabolism for days after. For burning even more calories, combine sprinting with running or jogging
Cecelia Yap is an avid exerciser and author of the popular exercise website: perfect-body-toning.com - a web site born out of her passion which she successfully turns into a profitable business. Perhaps you have a passion or hobby you'd like to write about. Find out how you too can turn it into a profitable business like Cecelia does, here: www.perfect-body-toning.com/my-passion.html
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