Sonja Krivokapic

Great workouts for women Introduction When talking about workout, women often make two mistakes; they either focus on a monotone cardio workout, such as running or working out on a StairMaster, or they focus on a specific weak zones that are typical for women, such as buttocks, hips, thighs and stomach and do exercises only for these zones. Rather than doing this, the key to shaping your body properly is doing these things moderately and simultaneously; that way the body will respond to the exercises quickly and with a greater effect. Cardio and strength exercises The best way shape your body is to combine cardio and strength exercises. You can do that by doing these simultaneously, or you can do one at the time. An example for the former is doing butt kicks with dumbbells in your hands. That exercise puts more pressure on your legs, making them stronger than they would become without the dumbbels. The other way of doing this is first doing cardio, like jumping jacks, and then do other exercises with dumbbells or weights. Lifting weights above your head in a chair pose is a good exercise, aiming at strengthening multiple muscle groups are the same time (biceps and quadriceps in this case), which makes your body sweat more, shape faster and makes you loose more calories. Another example is doing jumping jacks with weights. This exercise doesn't have to be modified to fit the strength category as it fits the cardio one, because it already combines two of these categories; you are jumping and moving your arms up and down, exercising whole arms in that way. Weak zones When you are doing cardio with exercises which focus on certain parts of your body, you begin to sweat more and the body adapts more easily because of that added stress. Doing only exercise for weak zones is fine, but combining them with cardio will make things go smoothly. For example, you can do simple squat with a little jump when your knees flatten.By doing that, you include cardio into your leg workout. Buttocks and hips are the most common perceived weak zones that women have. Lifting heels in a sumo squat position exercises not only your calf, but also your buttocks. Conclusion The main key is to combine exercises that you do. Combining them, your body gradually adapts to stress with even greater ease which help it get into shape that you desire to achieve.