Best Cardio During Cut?

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[quote]Christopheel wrote:
But this leads me to another question, do this “plan” looks alright to you ?

Training every other day lower/upper split. Two times a week incline walking ( In my case it’s in the street I have some big “mountain” to walk, 30mins a go up than I come back for my PWO ? ).

No carbs in the morning on walking days, only proteins was thinking on 8 egg whites + one yolk. Little carbs Post-Workout (After walking too ?) and training mornings. Looks okay to you ?

and thanks for the informations.[/quote]

I’m confused about your cardio. Are you walking up a hill to the gym and back down after? Or walking up the hill, back down, weights at home and more walking?

Assuming training and cardio in the mornings…

I’d rather see you take in the majority of your carbs post workout/post cardio and switch over to protein+vegetables+healthy fat meals after that. If you want some research to do(lol) look up targeted carb diets like Iron Addict suggests as a general outline of how I’d recommend it be approached.

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[quote]warsoe wrote:
Hi!

Which intensity is better during cardio for weight loss and still maintaining as much muscle as possible - walking, running or intervals? [/quote]

It depends on your diet.

Generally speaking, the higher the intensity, the more glycogen you’ll burn and unless you’re replenishing it with plenty of carbs you’ll deplete yourself for your next resistance workout.

If your body is primarily burning glycogen then you stand a better chance of also burning dietary protein for energy . . . or even “eating” your own muscle tissue.

My recommendation is that you consider your diet as the 70% answer to fat loss then pick your exercises based on the energy systems your body is using.

If you’re on a keto/low carb diet, I would say walking - light jog.

On a heavy carb diet, high intensity intervals, sprints or hill work might be better.

Bottom line . . . you can’t answer the question of what cardio works best without understanding where your body is getting its energy from.

Every answer so far has been totally correct . . . or maybe totally incorrect . . . depending on your nutrition, hormonal levels, etc.

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[quote]Scott M wrote:
Christopheel wrote:
But this leads me to another question, do this “plan” looks alright to you ?

Training every other day lower/upper split. Two times a week incline walking ( In my case it’s in the street I have some big “mountain” to walk, 30mins a go up than I come back for my PWO ? ).

No carbs in the morning on walking days, only proteins was thinking on 8 egg whites + one yolk. Little carbs Post-Workout (After walking too ?) and training mornings. Looks okay to you ?

and thanks for the informations.

I’m confused about your cardio. Are you walking up a hill to the gym and back down after? Or walking up the hill, back down, weights at home and more walking?

Assuming training and cardio in the mornings…

I’d rather see you take in the majority of your carbs post workout/post cardio and switch over to protein+vegetables+healthy fat meals after that. If you want some research to do(lol) look up targeted carb diets like Iron Addict suggests as a general outline of how I’d recommend it be approached. [/quote]

Well I was planing on my off days, to put carbs aside for “post-walking” lol. I’m thinking about doing it on days out of gym, I prefer to split cardio from weights. So on off days, just some solids proteins on the morning and go walk up these hills just pass my home.

OR

Always keep little carbs in morning, but instead of walking these hill I could do some little jogging, I won’t break 60% of my maximum intensity with this.

AND

I am currently reading the whole library here, been only one year in this “business” and I’ve never done myself a “cut” And during my “mass gain” phase, I’ve lost some fat for the first 3 months and then only mass gain but not an ounce of fat. So I want to cut my teenage fat, that’s gonna be done ! I’ve started today the process, reducing carbs/calories slowly over the week …

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[quote]Scott M wrote:
bushidobadboy wrote:
Scott M wrote:

I’d also add that I prefer cardio pre breakfast(but after some BCAA or small protein only shake), but anytime is better than none.

I do this too, but I have to question whether the insulin release from the BCAA and/or protein, is counterproductive to fat loss.

I guess the fact that the protein and/or BCAA is sparing to muscle makes it the thing to do.

As an ecto (albeit ‘assisted’) I am more concerned about preserving muscle, so I never train in a fasted state.

Bushy

It does seem like a damned if you do damned if you don’t sort of thing. I’d rather burn slightly less fat and keep more muscle than burn slightly more fat and risk losing some muscle.

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Solid Proteins will have a reduce insulin respond/release compare to liquid proteins/BCAA I believe.