It’s difficult to have a good workout session if you have weak joints or a recent injury. To maintain your fitness, maintain a healthy lifestyle by sticking with exercises that aren’t too taxing on your body. Try the following:
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Swimming
Water is nearly 800 times denser than air, so while swimming is the ultimate low-impact workout, it’s anything but easy to propel your body from one side of the pool to the other and back. In one head-to-head comparison of the health and fitness benefits of swimming versus walking in 116 sedentary women, researchers found that those who swam three times a week for 6 months lost more weight, improved their body composition, slimmed their hips and waist and improved their cholesterol levels better than those who performed a similar walking program for the same time. Source: Health
Rowing
Here’s a super-easy way to get in some cardio while also pretending that you’re soaking up some sun on a boat. Of course, the florescent lights in the gym eventually snap you back to reality. But at least you’ll be working out your arms, back, legs, and core. Source: Greatist
Walking upstairs
Walking up stairs, whether they’re real stairs or the revolving staircase at the gym, can be an incredibly intense workout and a great way to get your heart rate up. If you’re a beginner, try adding a few minutes of stairclimbing to your usual workout or hop on the stepmill at the gym for a quick five minutes towards the end of your workout. You’ll find you don’t have to go very fast to get your heart rate up. Source: VeryWellFit
Barre
You may not think of them as cardio, but in addition to toning your muscles, many barre-inspired workouts can also torch plenty of calories and boost your metabolism! Ballet-inspired workouts that combine the use of light weights with sculpting moves done at a cardio pace can have you burning up to 650 calories per class, says Laurie Alfano, director of education for Xtend Barre, a barre program that incorporates cardio sequences before each sculpting circuit to increase calorie burn by as much as 20 percent. Source: Shape
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