Cardio Home Workouts to Lose Weight - Home Cardio Training, Weight Loss

The gym is not the only place to get a great cardio workout. In fact, you can break a sweat, burn some calories and put your belly fat on notice with some simple-yet-effective cardio exercises in your own home. No weights or expensive equipment required. Some beginning exercisers may feel embarrassed or overwhelmed at the thought of working out at a gym. Others may not have a fitness gym within a convenient location. Most people, however, may just feel like skipping the gym and staying home from time to time. Cardio home training is also a great way to pursue weight loss on a budget. Check out the home cardio or aerobic workouts detailed below and get moving!

Cardio Home Training for Fat Burn Basics

You don’t need a lot of space to get a great cardio workout: Try the routine below, which you can do outside or even in your own living room (watch the lamp!). This routine requires a stopwatch, timer or clock that shows seconds. Try to do this circuit three times for an optimal calorie burn. Remember, training can raise your appetite. When you go to the frig, make sure you eat good carbs and good fats.

Jumping Jacks
• Beginner: 25
• Intermediate: 50
• Advanced: 100
Fast Feet: crouch low and run in place as fast as you can. Try not to pick up your feet more than a couple inches off the ground. Stay on your toes and keep running through the entire time.
• Beginner: 20 seconds
• Intermediate: 45 seconds
• Advance: 1.5 minutes
Knee Ups: run in place and bring each knee up as high and as close to your chest as possible. Pump your arms up and down as you run. Keep your abs tight, keep breathing. Go as fast as you can through the full amount of time.
• Beginner: 20 seconds
• Intermediation: 45 seconds
• Advanced: 1.5minutes
Stairs: If your knees can handle it, run or walk up and down your staircase. When you get to the top or bottom, turn around and immediately go the other way.

Try to go as fast as you can without slowing down. Remember to keep breathing the whole time. Hold on to the banister if you don’t feel stable (especially when going down).
• Beginner: 30 seconds
• Intermediate: 1 minute
• Advanced: 2.5 minutes

Backyard Home Cardio Workouts

If you have a medium-large, generally even back yard, consider the following aerobic routine:

Shuffle: Determine two distant points in the yard. Start at one point. Crouch low, sit back and shuffle as fast as you can to the opposite point.

As soon as you reach it, reverse direction and shuffle back to the original point. Keep going. Stay nice and low so that you are also working your butt and thighs.
• Beginners: 30 seconds
• Intermediate: 1 minute
• Advanced: 1.5 minutes
Skipping: Don’t laugh; skipping works the butt, thighs and calves. Make sure to pump your arms with the motion of the skip and to get your knees up as high as you can. You can use those same distant points in your yard to travel back and forth.
• Beginners: 45 seconds
• Intermediate: 1.5 minutes
• Advanced: 2.5 minutes
Suicides: The name pretty much says it all. Suicides are an all out sprint and meant to help develop cardio strength, stamina and those “fast twitch” muscles you know you have somewhere deep down inside yourself.

A basic suicide means you just run from one point to the other back and forth as fast as you can.
A) Half suicide: If you have a large back yard, you can make this drill even harder by setting up tennis balls at intervals between the points.

Start by sprinting to the first tennis ball and bringing it back to the starting point. Turn around and go for the next closest, bring it back and so on. When you bring back the last ball, sprint all the way to the end point, and you’re done.
• Beginners: 30 seconds
• Intermediate: 45 seconds or half suicide
• Advanced: 1.5 minutes or full suicide.

B) Full suicide: If you are in stellar shape or have a death wish, you can make the suicide even harder by continuing the tennis ball drill. Once you have retrieved each tennis ball, methodically replace them to their original spots, starting with the farthest and working your way back to the closest.
• Beginners: 30 seconds
• Intermediate: 45 seconds or half suicide
• Advanced: 1.5 minutes or full suicide.
Three rounds of this circuit and your belly fat will be waving a white flag of surrender.

Cardio home workouts can be an excellent way to burn fat, while building up your cardio strength. You can balance such intense training with taking a walk around the neighborhood. Whatever you decide to do, remember to listen to your body. It knows what's best.