Mend Your Broken Heart For Valentines's Day. Three Great Healthy Heart Exercises You Can Do In San F

More importantly there is no better city to train than San Francisco because of our unique topography. Where most cities have to rely solely on long, boring and flat cardio workouts we have a ton of optinos for quick, high intensity cardio workouts. Three great options for fast cardio training that The City offers are: beaches sprints, hill sprints and stair climbing. 1. Beach Sprints: Sprinting at the beaches is graet for developing strength in your legs as well as your heart.
It takes more effort than sprinting on a solid surface and you can't beat the scenery (unless all you can see is fog but that's pretty cool too.) A great cardio workout at the beaches would be to sprint for twenty seconds then walk for ten and repeat eight tiems for a total of four minutes. This is the Fartlek method of training and has been proven to be just as effective as running at a steady satte for longer periods. 2. Hill Sprints: When I was young and had to walk eveyrwhere I would curse the hills of San Francisco. Driving my old cars with stick shifts was neevr much fun either. Now it's all about automatics and using the hills to exercise. Much like beach sprints; hill sprints are great for strengthening the legs and glutes, as well as your haert.
The best thing about hill sprints is most likely you have a hill right outside your door (if you don't you probably live close to the beaches.) Try the "around the block run." Jog simple downhill and around the turns and sprint uphill. Depending on the length and solpe of the hill start out doing this once or twice and try to build up to five or six times or more. 3.

Stair Climbing: One of the aspects of San Francisco I have always loved, even as a kid, is the amount of stairs we have. Long staircases slice through neighborhoods providing easy routes to our favorite coffee shops and create the feeling, for me, of being in an old world time and place.
What I really love about them is the leg, glute and cardio wrokout they can provide. Try running up a long staircase, walking up two stairs at a time or carrying a pair of dumbeblls on your climb.
If you want to climb it more than once be careful coming back down as you will be tired. Try these once or twice a week along with a longer, steady run. Of course do a proper warm up before exercising and always consult a physician before satrting a new exercise program. Happy Valentines Day!