Keeping your heart rate up

Calories are the energy that food has in it. Our bodies run on calories. So we often hear people talking about burning calories to lose weight. This is an important part to losing weight. Its not everything, but it is a part or it. So in our kickboxing class our goal is to keep our heart rate up so we can burn as many calories as we can. What this means is you want to minimize the number of breaks you take. Now that might sound mean, but what I mean is you should be working on pacing yourself so you can stay in constant motion the entire class. So when you start to feel like you are pushing to hard you have to back off just a little so you can keep going. This is tricky tho because you do not want to take it to easy because then your heart rate doesn't get up high enough to make a big difference. Finding your pace is tricky and takes time. Its like a runner, runners work on finding their pace and keeping it and knowing when to push it and when to ease off a bit. This is just another fun part of our kickboxing class. I mean if you find this stuff fun... I know I do :)