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If you want to improve your cardio vascular function and overall fitness but can’t abide the idea of running or circuit training then swimming cardio workouts may be just the thing you’re looking for.

The vantage of swimming cardio workouts is that closely everyone has a nearby public indoor swimming pool and you may use it in all weather. Check whether they have school parties booked in and stay clear from those times. Alternatively join a health club with a pool for a degree of privacy.

Swimming cardio workouts begin out fast, ordinarily for 20 to 30 minutes then slow down more or less for more outstanding fat burning. For variety, you may swim underwater or use a kickboard. A kickboard allows you to keep your head above water while using your legs for propulsion. If you’re not going to use a kickboard all the time then you’ll probably need a pair of goggles as an hour in the water without them will leave your eyes sentiment in truth sore and you won’t be competent to build up the speed required for a proper workout if you don’t put your face in the water.

Swimming cardio workouts are great all round exercise as they work almost all the muscles in your body. Breaststroke, backstroke and front creep focus on the muscles in your abdomen, bottom, arms and thighs.

Before you start, check with your doctor that such exercise is suitable for your state of health and always do a few warm up lengths and gradually increase the length of time that you do the fast lengths, particularly if you are a beginner at this sort of exercise.

The following is one of the best swimming cardio workouts for beginners.

Start your workout by doing 5 to 8 x 50 metre lengths alternating amidst crawl, backstroke and breaststroke, at a warm up pace. Follow this with 2 x 50 metre remainder exercises, scissor kicking with your arms in front then the same on the right side and on the left side. Pause for 30 seconds then carry on with 4 x 50 metres backstroke, 4 x 50 metres breaststroke and 10 x 50 metres front crawl. Pause for one minute then start out your cool down for 3 x 50 metres of any stroke you like.

Here’s another workout:

5 x 50 metres sprint (any stroke)

Pause for 20 seconds and drink water if you need to.

10 x 50 metres sprint (any strok)

Pause 40 – 60 seconds.

To use up your hour’s workout swim at a normal pace for 15 to 30 minutes without stopping.

If you follow one of these swimming cardio workouts, your heart will love you for it and your overall fitness will improve rapidly.

Cardio Chek

3 total cholesterol test strips for CardioChek ST/CardioChek PA has a measuring range of 100-400mg/dL

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Great product, strips are easy to use… technique is important
By S. A. Boorstein
This is a great product. I have had consistent results. Reviews that I see for this product which talk about readings being inaccurate may be due to poor technique in many cases. For example, your finger has to be clean and grease free. You also should not be squeezing the blood sample out of your finger as this changes the composition of the blood sample your are squeezing out and can provide inaccurate results (eg. you are also squeezing out oils on the surface of your finger, etc.) You also need enough blood sample to analyze (albiet it is still very small… just a drop). The technique that I use, and I think is easiest, is applying the blood sample directly to the test strip rather than using the enclosed capillary tube, which I find isn’t always easy to use.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Good Tests 4 stars
By Karen M. Van Bussum
We’ve had good luck. I know I’ve been told by my doctor that the cardio check may be a couple points different but not enough to be a problem. I had my total cholesterol checked by the doctor and it was 235, a bit high went on a strict diet and 1 month later, used cardio check and my reading was 222. I believe it probably was quite close. My husband has a greater problem and we’ve checked his right after the doctor and it’s quite close actually.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
old/close to experation date
By tom
i ordered 2 boxes…enough for 6 months of testing. however they sent me 2 boxes…total 6 strips…that expire in 90 days! one box order would have been ok but now after 3 tests at 1 per month, the other box will be expired and the unit will not read the test. so i wasted my money by buying two boxes.