There are two types of kickboxing that people often do. One is mainly focused on getting a good workout. The other is focused more on learning how to defend you. The first will involve doing a combination of different moves in a fast paced manner in order to keep your heart rate up to help you burn more calories. The second type will be focused more on form and precision of your punches and kicks. The main benefit of kickboxing is as follows:

**The trend of kickboxing is followed because it provides health benefits to the heart. Because this exercise is obviously heart-pumping, you tend to increase your heart rate performance and breathing capacity.

**Fusing taekwondo and boxing is a smart choice of fat-burning exercise. It promotes alertness, endurance, flexibility and harmony among your body parts and senses. As you actually strike your hand and feet up, you learn to be all-out with your energy. Hence, you increase your alertness to assert.

** The kicks and punches you strike loosen your nerves up. You are allowed to let loose of your inhibitions. Restricting your movements can defeat the purpose of your fitness program, but with cardio kickboxing, your body moves without limits.

**The art of kickboxing also gives you the chance to train and develop core muscles like triceps and biceps as you do the punches, hamstrings and buttocks as you do the kicks and thighs as you do the squats and lunges. The movements in this kind of cardio exercise are designed to be executed with utmost energy and firmness so that your muscles are flexed and toned down. Thus, kick boxing isn't just fat-burning scheme but a firming and toning program as well.

**Cardio kickboxing is also a defensive routine that features some martial art stints. With these integrated in the session, you can actually apply them as the need surfaces. With martial arts, you need to be quick and alert in switching motions. It also entails some focus, agility and vigor.

Kickboxing is a great way to keep you motivated to keep up with your workout routine. It provides enough variety to keep things interesting and you'll have a "kick" doing it. Just keep in mind that in order to achieve your fitness goals, you must be persistent and keep up your workout routine until it becomes a habit.