About Aerobic Movements

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is what is aerobic movements. Now most people when they hear the word aerobic, they're immediately reminded of those easy classes from the 70's and 80's where the aerobic instructor was up in the front of the class, playing really great disco music and you've got the instructor wearing a tightly leotard and call up a leg warmers. And that's great because that was actually aerobic activity, but, you don't really need all that to have a good aerobic workout. An aerobic movement is quite simply any repetitive rhythmical motion that is involving, most of, if not all of the major muscle groups, that can be performed at a very extended period of time. So any movement, just about, as long as it's involving most of your body can become aerobic in nature. The benefits of aerobic activity are very well-documented; of course in order to experience the maximum benefits, you really need to do it at least three times a week at a sixty or eighty percentage of your maximum heart rate which you can calculate on your own and you probably want to do it for at least twenty minutes depending on your fitness level and your goals. No more than sixty, again, depending on your fitness level and goals. I'm going to give you just a really quick example of a good aerobic activity that I like. This one of my favorites, it's called a shuffle. Boxers might know of it, know it as a boxer shuffle; we're going to take it two different levels. First of all, let's show you the boxer shuffle. You want to stand hip and width shoulder width apart with your feet and do, simply just going to move side to side. Again, you see the repetition; you see the rhythm, okay and this is involving my entire my body. Now if I want to make this a little more challenging involve the abs, I put my fist up here; get those shoulders little stiffer, tense the abs up and you got a good upper abdominal workout with the, kind of a crunch there. You can take your hands to your sides and all I'm doing is shifting my weight from right, fall on my foot to left, fall on my foot; repetitive. Now looks pretty simple, but if you do that for a minute or two, you can break up a good, pretty good sweat. Alright. That's the boxer shuffle and that is what an aerobic mean."