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Circuit Training Benefits

If you get bored always doing the same type of strength training routine, Circuit Training is an efficient way to get results in a shorter period of time. Once you’re familiar with the various exercises, this format primarily works to reinforce the exercise, keep your heart rate up and break through plateaus.

In a circuit-training workout you do a group, or circuit, of exercises with little or no rest in-between. Your rest periods are after completing an entire circuit. While you’re getting a total body workout you’re also building strength and endurance. It is an efficient way to exercise as there are less rest periods. Usually, one circuit consists of 6 to 10 exercises. Each exercise is performed for a set number of repetitions or period of time before moving to the next exercise. For example, you might move from 15 reps of squats to 15 reps of bicep curls, followed by a tricep exercise, etc. Depending on your fitness level, you might do one circuit or several circuits during each workout.

Benefits to circuit training include getting a total-body workout by doing one exercise for each body part. Stepping up your routine to break through a plateau is another advantage.

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