[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
[quote]fatboi wrote:
how about doing two sessions each of 100 metre sprints and 45 mins steady state at 75% of mhr!![/quote]
If you’re doing 2 sprint sessions and 2 steady state cardio workouts each week, in addition to lifting 4 or 5 days a week, I’d say that’s starting off on the higher end of cardio work. Some people do fine with it, but many guys like to start with less cardio (less often and/or shorter duration) and add it if/when needed.
Obviously, your nutrition and lifting will need to be factored into your cardio choice. For example, pay attention to when you’re training legs based on when you’re running the sprints. And if you’re doing that much cardio, or more, you’ll need to adjust your calories and/or macros somewhat.
These are a few articles that talk about a bunch of different ways to approach cardio:
If you’re doing sprints and want to really go 100% on each run, it’s usually best to give yourself enough time to “fully” recover between each “set.” Though, if you cut the rest down or use incomplete rest, you’ll fatigue faster overall but the intensity will be further increased. I’d almost consider that like as advanced technique. If you’re just getting back into hard, high intensity cardio, use the longer rest.[/quote]
earlier post on this