Best Low-Impact Workouts

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High-Intensity Interval Training

HIIT exercises include low-impact speed squats while holding a dumbbell on each shoulder and a straightforward plank using only your body weight.

Additionally, walking is cost-free, practical, and, most importantly, low-impact.

Walking

Swimming

Swimming is also beneficial for strengthening the shoulders, back, abdominals, and thighs. 

This exercise could consist of pedaling as quickly as possible for 20 seconds followed by 10 seconds of recovery. 

Cycling

Rowing

Additionally, rowing strengthens the limbs, legs, and core. The exercise may also enhance your upper back strength and posture.

SkiErg

It is also an excellent option for those who wish to increase their power, strength, and endurance in a joint-safe manner.

Barre

This exercise emphasizes mobility and flexibility, two attributes that many of us could benefit from enhancing.

Pilates is a low-impact exercise regimen that emphasizes abdominal strength, breathing, and alignment. 

Pilates

Kettlebell Training

Workouts using the svelte free weights can provide excellent cardio and total-body strengthening with minimal skeletal impact. 

Consider circuit training when time is limited and you desire low-impact strength training and cardio. 

Circuit Training

Kinetic Stretching

The low-impact exercise modality, also known as KinStretch, involves moving a joint through its full range of motion.

The elliptical machine engages multiple large muscle groups simultaneously and provides the benefits of running without the impact.

Elliptical

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