Most people are familiar with aerobic exercise. It includes running, brisk walking, swimming, bike riding and using cardiovascular machines such as treadmills, elliptical cross trainer and stair machines. Cross training simply means varying your aerobic exercise. For instance, you might run two days a week, bike one day and swim one day. Weight lifting is any type of strength training, which includes free weights and weight machines, but can also include a variety of exercises that don't require weights such as push ups, crunches, squats and dips.
Walkers can do wind sprints by walking faster for short periods.
He also recommends two or three weight sessions a week. Bailey also said body fat is more important than just getting on a scale and measuring body weight. There will be variances based on body type, activity level and ethnicity, he said. You can have your body fat tested by someone who has been trained to use a caliper, or refer to the chart on the left. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Oct. 17, 1999.