Exercises: Fitness Circuit Training

Fitness circuit training is a series of exercises stations that you train through ,

with very little rest time between exercises . The number of exercises or stations may range from four to ten.

Traditionally , workouts involving circuit training were developed to increase muscular endurance and included exercises to help improve muscular endurance such as pushups, situps, leg press and the bench press.

Essential Exercises

A circuit would consist of four to ten exercises with a low impact aerobic warmup and cool-down station (you might use a stationary bike ). The exercise stations could be set-up using free weights and/or weight machines that train a single muscle group at a time .

A good example of circuit training exercises using your environment would be through par course exercise training. This style intersperses walking or jogging with numerous strength, flexibility and muscular endurance exercises.

Exercises

Aerobic circuit training is especially very popular with the betterment in the overall health for women.  4 to 10 aerobic exercise stations are used with 1 to 5 minutes per station with a fifteen to thirty second rest between exercises , this is considered one circuit. The different stations will be set up with stationary cycling, elliptical rider, treadmill, stair climbing on a stair master at a moderate pace and the use of a rowing machine.

It will depend on the number of stations that are set-up but the number of circuits completed usually adds up to 20 to 60 minutes of aerobic exercise.

One affair to remember that will help you to be successful is to not train to failure at each station. What I mean by this is when the appointed time is coming to an end for that station, you should be able to complete the designated time with out having exhausted yourself.

You should be training some where between 50% and 70% of your operable capabilities

When participating in circuit training you will notice an increase in strength, improved muscular and aerobic endurance and last but not least healthy weight loss.

Exercises in the Fitness Circuit Training