Change the way on your exercise
If you want to increase the difficulty of training, you can change the elliptical machine exercise to make it more interesting and more difficult. But only if you know how to use it. No matter what model your home elliptical machine is, you can adjust the two settings of incline and resistance on each elliptical machine, just like on a fold-able treadmill. Increasing the incline can make your training more difficult, mainly training for hips and the hamstrings and do more difficult exercises without changing speed or resistance. On the other hand, increasing resistance will increase your exercise volume, heart rate and oxygen intake, while enhancing cardiovascular strength. That will make you sweat more during exercise.
Interval work
Don't set the cross elliptical machine on a slope or high resistance simply and keep it there. If you feel uncomfortable during training, please interrupt the training and rest. There are two types of interval training, namely low-intensity interval training (LIIT) and high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Both types of training are strenuous exercise, followed by a slower recovery period, LIIT has a lower intensity and a longer recovery time. If you are a beginner trainer or you just understand all the settings of fitness equipment, then you can choose LIIT. It can increase the calories you burn and provide you with a temporary metabolic boost after exercise. In addition, it can also be used in combination with uphill interval or long-distance training, which will make your training effect better.
Use handles correctly
We can often see the presence of handles in our daily lives, such as the handles on stairs. When you go up the stairs, the handle is to help you relieve stress. It can make people slack off easily. While grabbing them, you may lean forward, which will force your legs to do all the work, and you will not get enough exercise for your upper body. The handlebars will make your exercise easier, but laziness will not give you benefits in exercise, it will reduce your level of exercise. The premise of our training with fitness equipment is to have a better training effect, so in order to complete the real whole body perspiration, please stand upright and consciously push and pull the handle. Pull your shoulders back to tighten your abdominal muscles. This will ensure that your arms are working. The best option is not to use handles. To abandon them requires body balance and core involvement.
Set goals
One of the biggest mistakes that people make in the gym is to step on the aerobics machine and press start, expecting a foolproof exercise. However, training that does not set goals can only be blindly training, and in the end, you may not gain much from physical exercise. By setting goals, whether it's distance or intensity or number of revolutions per minute, you are more likely to work hard and focus on achieving it throughout the training process. If you take a break during training, you must make up for it after the workout.
Increase resistance
The household elliptical machine has an adjustable function. When the elliptical machine is inclined, it will make your legs difficult to push and pull to step. When your training is from easy to difficult, you can adjust the inclination from low to high, which can increase the difficulty of your training. Similarly, when you challenge a new difficulty, you can increase a certain amount of resistance accordingly. But it is not that the higher the resistance, the better, and we should do what we can.
