Dumbbell Cardio For Endurance and Fat Loss

Using Dumbbells for Endurance or Fat Loss is a foreign concept to most people. Most people believe that weights are for strength and cardio is for endurance and fat loss. It’s time to look beyond these “singular” viewpoints and understand what Dumbbell Cardio can do for you.

Lets see if the following describes you: You perform endless cardio, and diligently go to the gym lifting heavy weights. But when it comes time to carry heavy boxes up the stairs, and to REPEAT that task over and over again, you become TIRED.

This is because you lack proper strength endurance. Dumbbell Cardio allows you train both your musculature and cardiovascular systems at the same time so that you can perform daily activities better. Most things in life require you to use your muscles and your heart at the same time.

How do You Do Dumbbell Cardio?

There’s two things you need to know in order to develop intense dumbbell workouts:

1 – Choose Whole-Body Exercises

Choose exercises such as dumbbell swings, cleans, and snatches which train more than one muscle group at once.

The more muscles you can engage in a particular exercise, the better. The key is not to isolate, but to train your body as one piece.

2 – Choose a High Intensity Training Method

Organize your exercises into circuits, intervals, supersets, trisets, or any other high intensity training method. There are at least a dozen high intensity methods out there, and you can modify them any which way. These modifications, if you’re creative enough, can allow you to develop hundreds of different workouts using hundreds of different methods.

Hopefully this article has convinced you to start using dumbbell cardio in your regular fitness routines.