Knowing what the best kind of cardio is can make or break your fat burning mission. If you start doing regular boring old cardio your body will soon adapt to it and you will plateau very fast.

How much body fat you want to lose is irrelevant, if you want to start burning body fat, you must use some sort of cardiovascular exercise. The most common cardio workouts are things such as running, cycling and swimming. These can be great at burning fat, but if you have a selection of a few workouts that you choose from, your body will not adapt to the one workout, therefore your results will come around a lot faster.

Here are some of my favorite fat busting alternatives ever:

Box Jumping

This might sound kind of lame, but that must be because you have never tried it! Set up a box or just find a ledge that is about 30cm off the ground. Stand directly opposite it and with both feet on the ground, jump up onto the ledge, and then back down. Repeat this a set number of times and you will see what I mean. After a few rounds it gets very grueling and your legs will burn! Great fat burner.

Free Weight Sessions

Strictly speaking, these are not cardio – but I don’t speak strictly. One of my favorite free weight workouts to really get me sweating is the dumbbell squat. This is where you hold the dumbbells up on either side of your head, then you squat down like you are doing a normal squat. Then you use your legs to drive yourself back up again, then once at the top, press the dumbbells up like you would for a military press, straight up in the air, and straight back down again. Then start over and repeat for as many reps as you choose.

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