If you've visited my web site before or receive my daily fitness tip in your emailbox, you've no doubt heard me preach about variety before. But variety in fitness is so important for so many different reasons. Incorporating variety into your fitness plan helps to prevent injury, because the body is allowed to go through more positions with different activities and get stronger in the process.
Variety helps to keep our bodies responding.
When we start a new sport we are not efficient at it, therefore we burn a high number of calories when we participate in it. Over time, however, we become more and more efficient, so we begin burning LESS calories. A new activity re-ignites that calorie burn. A routine that incorporates variety prevents burn-out. When it comes to cardio, you can add variety in several different ways.