1000 lunges and 500 push ups. I think that’s extremely harmfull. There’s no reason to do this to your joints. I have a reasonable doubt that 3/4 ot these reps suffer from lack of muscle control and good form. There’s no chance to maintain neutral spine and active core through all sets. That’s no offense, that’s physiology. In the same time you just run through the reps - less than 2 sec for each rep - where are the possitive and negative phase, where is the mind- muscle control?
No flame. But you lose the right to tag me when your 1rm.tests don’t go well. 
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I still have a week to recover, right???- no conditioning, only easy cardio next week
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If I could. I’d like my own post
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Well conditioning means the cardio is hard and uses weights/“strength exercises “ Easy cardio means something like 40min slow on the ecliptical
Conditioning =/= cardio
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This isn’t true either, necessarily.
There are different definitions of cardio and conditioning, some of which coincide a bit, so I can amend my post and say that it doesn’t ALWAYS equal cardio, but conditioning definitely does not have to use weights.
Best I can describe it is,
Conditioning is anaerobic training
cardio is aerobic training
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Is it accepted still that out of the pair aerobic work is more likely to kill gains than anaerobic work or is that dated dogma that should no longer be prescribed to?
In that case, I’ve been labeling my workouts wrong all along 
It depends on who you talk to. There are IFBB pros who do LISS. There are also BBers who say that cardio is a gains killer.
I think it’s asinine to not do cardio, and whatever gains cardio is ‘killing’ are negligible. Cardiovascular exercise is important, period.
I think we need all 3 - lifting, cardio, conditioning. Cardio, IMO, is best done early in the morning, fasted or not, anything from elliptical to a long walk. Conditioning, for me, usually gets it’s own days, because it could be KB swings, burpees, prowler sprints, bike sprints, anything that pushes you beyond that aerobic threshold and is therefore an ass kicker.
So many people eat like shit or workout like idiots and then say ‘cardio is killing my gains’, as their heart fills up with plaque, lol.
BTW this is all my own over-opinionated rambling, haha. You’re obviously extremely intelligent and can decide for yourself what’s based in fact and what’s not.
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Theoretically yes ie you could do very hard, non eccentric exercises like airdyne or sled sprints and not have it interfere with anything; HOWEVER, there is 0 chance I could fathom doing an intense sled session after hard squats. Aerobic work is just mentally more feasible
In your opinion, what the threshold between “cardio” and simple daily activity?
Whether your rate of breathing increases.
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Completely dependent on the person. I - again, this is just me - rate cardio as that 1 step above your regular daily activity. An overweight desk jockey gets the benefits of cardio from walking a quarter mile. People with pedometers at my job log 5+ miles in a shift - I need a bit more than that - long distance rowing, biking, elliptical, running, anything that elevates my heart rate a bit more, and anything that I can do for, say, 10-60 minutes in a steady state. The higher heart rate and the shorter duration are what pushes things into conditioning. If you’re someone who never stops moving and is EXTREMELY active, it will take a lot to go outside of what your body has already adapted to.
Could we just collapse that paragraph I wrote into your sentence? Concise answers are so much better, haha.
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Aw dude just in time, I’m on a naruto kick right now
Week 4: Day 1 (yesterday)
Elliptical: 4 miles easy- 40min ish
Good morning:4x8-35kg
Incline bench: 1x10-30, 1x8-35, 1x6-60, 1x4-45
- legs pretty sore from the Saturdays conditioning but felt good once I got going- started feeling really good 15min in, bench and good mornings fine- easier than expected
@Pinkylifting How long will it take for my body to adjust to higher calories? I only bumped up by 100 and I’m softer and bloated
Same issue as with your re-feed, if you up it and hold carbs and sodium levels relatively consistent, you’ll be fine in a few days, a week at most. If you yo-yo between comitting to calories and reactive low days then every time you try to up it you’ll bloat up.
Stick high and see how your max day goes. Being bloated would actually be great, when I go to a comp I want to be as puffy as possible, definite strength boost.
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I’d been treating my veggies as “free food” but I decided to plug a rough estimate of my veggies consumption a nutrition calculator and turns ou, I’m eating 200-250kcal of mushrooms, lettuce and spinach/day 
Since I wasn’t tracking before, should I start or can I keep eating in ignorant bliss