Do you want the best out of your cardio workouts?
Get the Polar FT7 Heart Rate Monitor!
If your goal is to push yourself as much as possible with your cardio workouts, then you need a heart rate monitor!
Why? Because you need to know exactly what’s happening inside your body and that is exactly what the Polar FT7 Heart Rate Monitor will do for you!
There are many benefits of using a heart rate monitor. The most important being that you can control and keep track of your heart rate during your workouts.
A heart rate monitor will allow you to stay within the zone that you desire, according to your goals or program. Below is a list and description of the training zones.
- Healthy Heart Zone – 50-60% of maximum heart rate. This zone is for people who are just beginning to work out, and is close to a slow jog or fast walk. 85% of calories burned are fat calories.
- Fitness Zone – 60-70% of maximum heart rate. This is a little more intense than the Healthy Heart Zone, and about 85% of calories burned are fat calories again.
- Aerobic Zone – 70-80% of maximum heart rate. Improves your cardiovascular endurance and increases the strength and size of the heart. Most marathon runners and endurance competitors train in this zone. You will burn more calories in this zone, and 50% of those calories burned will be fat calories.
- Anerobic Zone – 80-90% of maximum heart rate. Improves cardiorespiratory system and increases endurance. This is the high-intensity training zone that includes workouts like Kenpo Cardio plus, Interval X Plus, and Cardio Intervals. This zone burns a greater number of calories, and 15% of those calories burned are fat calories.
- Red Line – 90-100% of maximum heart rate. You will burn the highest number of calories in this zone and is very intense!
Fitness guru Tony Horton, who developed the P90X workout system, told ESPN.com he had helped several celebrities get in shape with it, including Usher. The P90X workout program is a form of cross training, made by Beachbody. CEO Carl Daikeler told “Nightline” P90X was originally designed for people already in shape: “P90X started as ‘we’re gonna sell fitness to the fit, basically,'” he said. (Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)
Ashton Kutcher’s six-pack may be the result of a P90X workout routine. During a press conference last year, the “Two and a Half Men” star said he bought workout DVDs from an infomercial but didn’t outright name P90X. But Kutcher, 33, has tweeted about using the P90X program before. One 2009 tweet said, “I can’t get my p90x dvd to play on my mac pro.” His wife Demi Moore also spilled the beans. (Ray Tamarra/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
Actress Demi Moore, 48, set Twitter on fire in 2009 when she spilled that she had used P90X to keep up with her husband, Ashton Kutcher. “I have only done the yoga DVD of the P90X so far and that kicked my a–! The husband is banging it out every day though! I need to motivate!!” Rumors have circulated that the couple has separated but reps for both have yet to comment. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Who wouldn’t “raise your glass” to Pink for her hot bod? When the 32-year-old singer appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” last year, Oprah asked her what her secret was to her lean and toned body. Pink revealed that while she is at home she uses P90X to stay fit. “It’s crazy,” Pink said of the workout program, “It’s full on.” (James Devaney/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
A change in Sheryl Crow’s exercise routine did her good. In a 2009 red carpet interview, the 49-year-old singer told E! that she used P90X to help get back into shape after the birth of her son. “I used to run all the time. But since Wyatt came, I’ve gotten kind of lax about it… a friend of mine turned me on to this P90X … it’s Pilates and yoga and weight lifting, to it’s just everything.” (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)
“Without a Trace” star Poppy Montgomery also used P90X to shed her baby weight. The 36-year-old actress told People magazine in 2008 that she gained a whopping 70 pounds while she was pregnant with her son Jackson. She said she used P90X six days a week to get back down to her pre-baby, size 27 jeans. “It was hard, but it was worth it,” she told the magazine. (Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
Baltimore Ravens’ Ray Lewis, who has been hailed as one of the best linebackers in the history of football, said in a 2009 interview with NFL.com that he has never physically felt better, and credited his using P90X as part of the reason. “I just incorporated it in a lot of different places in my workouts and it’s given me the challenge that I needed,” Lewis said at the time. (Larry French/Getty Images)
P90X is designed for athletes of all ages, including retired football players. When former Dallas Cowboy running back Emmitt Smith was drafted into the Hall of Fame last year, he was asked by a reporter what his current workout routine was. “I just started to get into P90X,” Smith said. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin, known for her roles in “Children of a Lesser God” and “The West Wing,” uses P90X. The only actress with a hearing impairment to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won for the 1986 film, has made YouTube videos promoting the workout DVDs and tweeted about them last year: “Did you know that @p90x videos are closed captioned?” (David Becker/Getty Images)