The best muscle building cardio workout is to get up and go for a half hour walk before breakfast. You should do it about four or five days per week with several reasons.
It benefits your cardiovascular health. Many people simply lift weights and ignore all the other workings of fitness. You should do it first thing in the morning. It increases your appetite and look as if to strengthen your metabolism for the day which an allow you to eat more with less possibilities of adding body fat. It also helps in waking you up, clearing your head, giving you time to think and packing your lungs full of fresh air, which is very important during the winter.
If you decide to wear a weight vest, be sure that you don't get add too much weight too soon. You should remember that while walking for thirty minutes, you will take a lot of steps and each of those steps will add up more stress on your body parts like ankles, knees, hips and spine. Start with not more than ten pounds on the vest and try to keep the bulk of the weight in the back. After sometime you can start to add a few pounds per week.
Please remember that the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you will burn while walking. If you decide to start walking on a regular basis for your muscle building cardio, please remember some points:
One of the major benefits is that you will go outside and breathe fresh air. So breathe heavy in fresh air whenever you go out for walking in the morning. Don't walk on treadmill at home. There are many roads, hills, sidewalks, woods, mountains and fields everywhere so why you should use the treadmill? Just go outside and breathe the fresh air early in the morning.
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