Keeping up with your cardiovascular exercise over a long period of time involves finding new ways to challenge your body and enjoy your workouts.

Pushing yourself to try new activities is critical for preventing plateaus in progress, boredom, and burn-out. Varying your cardio workout ensures you'll have more fun, achieve greater results – and stay more consistent – with the habits required for lifelong health and fitness.

Why "Variation" Is So Critical To Your Success

Making fitness a lifelong habit demands a willingness to consistently step out of your comfort zone. Those afraid to try something new and challenge themselves often get bored with the same old cardio workout, and before long, lose interest in maintaining their results.

Those who push their limitations, grow from their experiences and enjoy the confidence, health, and success that come from new accomplishments. Variety is a critical element to challenging your current limitations.

Top Ten Cardio Workouts

While the workout options are endless, listed below are 10 great ways to vary your cardio workout and achieve optimal health and fitness results:

1. Wind sprints: Nothing will burn more calories and get your heart pumping and your lungs breathing faster than sprinting. On the track, grass,road, or hills - choose what terrain is available to you.



2. Swimming: In the ocean, lake, or local Olympic size pool - safe at any age, swimming is a great total body cardio workout and non-impact (good for joints) activity. Try alternating various strokes and pushing yourself with sprints for timed distances.



3. Cycling: If you’ve got a road bike great, if not then an indoor cycle will work just as well. Spinning classes also offer a fun environment to push your cardio limits.



4. Rollerblading: A great workout that challenges your lower body in a way unlike running or biking. Great exercise for the thighs, glutes, and hips. Also great training for those who enjoy the winter sports of snow skiing, ice skating, and hockey.



5. Mountain biking: With the popularity of “off-road” cycling, miles of trails in local parks or wooded areas are now easily accessible these days. Be sure to pack your safety gear, and pick a trail that matches the level of your expertise!



6. Running hills: Depending on where you live, hills may or may not be readily available. Try challenging yourself to sprint stadium stairs or a few flights in a local hotel or office building as a great substitute. Talk about a cardio workout blast – give it a shot and you’ll be amazed with your results!



7. Jumping Rope: Simple, timed jump rope intervals provide a serious workout. There are also several different types of ropes available including “speed” and “weighted” ropes that provide the added benefit of an upper-body workout at the same time.



8. Rowing: Most of us don’t have access to a rowing shell, but luckily, many local health clubs offer indoor rowing machines. Rowing is a great way to work your core, back, and legs at the same time. Some rowing machines even offer video components to make the experience like a fun video-game – complete with a computerized opponent to race!



9. Kickboxing: If a martial arts class doesn’t interest you (or you’d prefer to work up to it), there are some great cardio kickboxing DVDs available to turn your living room into a dojo.



10. Yoga: For clarity of mind, a good sweat, and flexibility at the same time, yoga offers tremendous benefits as part of a balanced health and fitness program. Many local facilities offer trial classes, or home DVDs are also available to fit into your ideal schedule.

Conclusion
Challenging your body and mind with new exercise activities is essential to avoiding plateaus, boredom and burnout. Pushing your limits ensures fun with maintaining the habits required for lifelong health and fitness success.

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