To build some muscle while doing your cardio, try circuit-training and body-sculpting classes that roll resistance and aerobic burn training into one continuous routine. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. None of these types of classes is inherently better or worse than others; it depends on where you’ve been and where you want to go. “If you used to run track or play basketball, you should probably try something like a high-low class, which entails a lot of running and jumping,” she explains. “On the other hand, if you aren’t a dancer or a ‘movement’ body and fat person, I wouldn’t recommend a funk or a hip-hop class, at least not initially. It’d be confusing and you probably wouldn’t get a good workout.”

For all burn and body types of exercise, your warm-up activities fat should: Take each of the joints burn through full range of body motion. Increase body temperature. fat Get you psychologically tuned to what your body will be doing. Physiological reasons for warming up. Warm-ups help the body and its muscles to perform more effectively by: Slowly increasing burn and body muscle temperature. fat Serving as a dry run, which alerts burn the individual body to potential fat musculoskeletal and burn other problems that body may occur at higher intensity. fat Reducing the burn risk of exercise-related heart problems by increasing coronary blood flow. Improving the elasticity of soft tissues. Preventing early lactic-acid buildup and body fatigue. Stimulating motor units of the muscles fat in preparation for a heavier workload.

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