You have probably seen a lot of courses endorsing cardiovascular training. Are they fooling us? Or is it beneficial?

Right off the bat some of the things you can get through cardio fitness are decrease of bad cholesterol and higher levels of good cholesterol. Cardio fitness will fortify your lungs and heart and it will help you lower the chances of getting a stroke or some other cardiac problems.

Cardiovascular fitness is quite common in gym facilities these days. Some people rather do their workouts utilizing their bodyweight, and some other people prefer to use exercise machines. Both approaches will make you build cardio endurance as well as give you washboard abs.

So, which approach is better?

Is not the approach that really matters, is the intensity. And since machine workouts are more practiced than bodyweight workouts, is easier to get complacent and make a few things wrong. By doing a few tweaks in the way you exercise with machines we can increase our cardiovascular levels.

If you are working hard on the Stair Climber, don't rest your arms on the railings. This common mistake will indeed support some of your bodyweight making this particular exercise less efficient and less intense. The solution, keep your arms off the railings and make sure that your legs support most of your bodyweight.

The Elliptical Trainer is other training device that we see almost in any gym, but yet some trainees lower the level of resistance and start to move faster, thinking that speeding up will make them burn the most fat. Basically, what is going to make them melt the fat away is the intensity, by cranking up the resistance of the training device, they will move slower, but the intensity of the exercise is going to be huge. That's what will help us lose the most weight.

A very common device is the Stationary Bike. The Stationary Bike is going to help you or harm you because the range of motion is so small, plus trainees adjust the resistance level too low and then they start to chat with whoever is beside them or start talking on their cellphone. The bottom line is this, if you can talk on your phone or you can chat with the person that is beside you while working out at the same time, your workout session will not be very intense.

And the most common one, the Treadmill. If you are jogging on this equipment, the best piece of advice I can give you on this exercise device is to focus your view in one spot on the wall, if you see that spot too blurry, you are jumping too much. Maintain the same sight level while you are running or walking and as you might know the way to increase the intensity on this exercise device is to raise the speed.

Make all your cardiovascular training more intense. Make sure that when you finish your workout sessions, you are covered in sweat. That is the best indication that you worked out hard and that's the way that you can have an athletic look, a healthier life and better cardio fitness.

It doesn't matter if you utilize your bodyweight or machines, never forget, is the intensity of the exercise that is going to make the fat melt away.