[quote]facko wrote:
[quote]eyegainweightbig wrote:
Alright, and I added more volume to my workouts, and added at least one more top set to each exercise, following something similar to kingbeefs 5x split recommendation.
As far as the cardio, when do you recommend I do it? After workouts and on free days? so something like on chest day, on one rest day, and on shoulder day?
…btw I am excited to have made these improvements…It is so awesome when people tell me “wow you have gotten so much bigger” so I am definitely determined to get even bigger and leaner!
Thanks for all the help so far man
Also, what are your reasons for adding cardio? health? keep gains lean? combination of the two?
jw, im still adding it but wanna knwo your reasons[/quote]
I do cardio for health reasons…because I also believe it or not like running. I used to run close to 35 miles or so a week when I weighed about 140lbs…So running is not something I just decided to get rid of when I made an effort to gain size again. I now run 2-3 days a week depending on how I feel, look, weigh…and I typically do it on rest days. Usually on an empty stomach in the morning before I go to work. But, if I don’t have time before work…I’ll just run at night when I get off work. At the end of the day its the calorie intake and expenditure that matter MOST. That’s not to say you won’t burn fatty acid stores a bit more effectively if it is fasted in the morning…you will to an extent. But, those types of details tend to only matter when someone is attempting to get into single digit bodyfat… For most other people just fitting in it will be beneficial in terms of health and in my opinion helps keep conditioning under control.
2-3 days a week man…20-30 days simple solid state. If you include HIIT or sprint work…you are going to need to treat that like another training session. I typically don’t do sprint work at all…my job is already too labor intensive and I eat under maintenence calories on my rest days…I just don’t feel it’s conducive for me.[/quote]
Alright thanks, started cardio for the first time this morning, woke up (fasted obviously) and went for a 25 minutes jog whoo that felt good!
Do you take BCAAs or anything before morning runs? or do you just go completely fasted? I have been trying to get out of the mentality of “my muscles are burning right now” if I am fasted. When I got home, I had a normal post workout meal- chicken breast, bunch of white rice, olive oil shot.
How should I treat my nutrition around cardio? Just like weight training? Like for example, the same post workout meal after cardio?
Also, I will be doing cardio on one of my training days (probably on an upper body day, like shoulders or chest), so should I do the cardio right after my weight training workout? Like just do a chest workout then go straight to the treadmill (or stairstepper or whatever I feel like) and go right into 20-30 minutes steady pace?
My body wont be in a “muscle burning state” (for lack of better term) if I go right into cardio after a workout, will it?
