Is this proper for good gains?
If you do it right. I think the current accepted practice is doing intervals for cardio. I do them every three days.
To gain you need to eat more calories than you use. Do your cardio, but take it into account when you sit down at the dinner table.
As for what type you do, that depends on yourself. Many people want to put the majority of their efforts into weight training, so high intensity cardio or windsprints might burn them out. For those guys doing stuff like inclined walking at 65% VO2max is perfect for keeping the fat down without adding too much to their trianing load (ala yesterday’s cool training tip). I would favour this method.
That said I think getting a proper run out is good to do every now and then (for your cardiovascular system) and as long as you don’t overdo it, & eat enough to account for it, it’s fine.
I wouldn’t recommend sprint intervals for someone who is bulking up unless they have some sport-specific reason for doing them.
Sex is the only kroby recommended cardio during any bulking protocol.
[quote]kroby wrote:
Sex is the only kroby recommended cardio during any bulking protocol.[/quote]
I’m celibate so that won’t help. So the only reason to do cardio during a bulk is for your heart. The reason why I ask is that I’m a ecto-mesomorph bodytype. I can get cut pretty easily but gaining is a pain in the ass.
Hrmm “wouldn’t recommend doing sprint intervals…”
What about the Guerilla Cardio?
www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/guerilla_cardio.pdf
[quote]daniel d wrote:
Hrmm “wouldn’t recommend doing sprint intervals…”
What about the Guerilla Cardio?
www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/guerilla_cardio.pdf[/quote]
That is Tabata.
Great for revving the metabolism and burning calories/fat.
Probably not the best choice when bulking as it is counterproductive to gaining weight.
For cardio (heart health) brisk walking may be the way to go. This way you won’t get out of breath walking to the fridge.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
daniel d wrote:
Hrmm “wouldn’t recommend doing sprint intervals…”
What about the Guerilla Cardio?
www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/guerilla_cardio.pdf
That is Tabata.
Great for revving the metabolism and burning calories/fat.
Probably not the best choice when bulking as it is counterproductive to gaining weight.
For cardio (heart health) brisk walking may be the way to go. This way you won’t get out of breath walking to the fridge.[/quote]
I always thought that bulking is for raising your LBM which is no fat, bah time to throw in some extra oils into my diet. 
Cardio burns bugger all calories and can increase your appetite so it might have a place. However, too much cardio can decrease your appetite (I find) so that is not good.
Even sprints, personally, make me a hungry fellow. But not if I do too many, then they make me a sore fellow.
I definetely think there is a place for some cardio in bulking to get the blood flowing and hunger rising.
[quote]daniel d wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
daniel d wrote:
Hrmm “wouldn’t recommend doing sprint intervals…”
What about the Guerilla Cardio?
www.cs.unm.edu/~wneumann/files/guerilla_cardio.pdf
That is Tabata.
Great for revving the metabolism and burning calories/fat.
Probably not the best choice when bulking as it is counterproductive to gaining weight.
For cardio (heart health) brisk walking may be the way to go. This way you won’t get out of breath walking to the fridge.
I always thought that bulking is for raising your LBM which is no fat, bah time to throw in some extra oils into my diet. :([/quote]
That is correct. It is better to bulk without adding too much fat. The key is to control the diet, not put the fat on and try to burn it off at the same time.
Besides Tabata is too hard.
Current routine is doing bike sprints 3 to 4 days a week. Seems to be working well and it fits in with the whole G-Flux idea floating around the industry world.
Eating 4500 and burning 4000 is better than eating 4000 and burning 3500 is the idea. I’ve found that to be true. Cardio seems to help fend off fat gains, and might even be the key to burning fat while gaining muscle in a semi advanced trainee.
I personally, and others in authoritative postitions, prefer spaced out HIIT training. Meaning do your training in the morning/evening and do you cardio 6 - 8 hours apart from it. Gives your body a double metabolism boost and keeps G-Flux rolling right along.
When you say “bulking” phase, your referring to a phase in which you are going to get as big a possible, which results in a large muscle mass as well as a relatively large fat mass gain. This is usually followed by a cutting phase in which you want to try maximizing fat loss while sparing muscle. Unless you want to do cardio to keep some cardiovascular fitness, which is fine, I would not recommend doing “cardio” or even intervals. A true bulking phase will contain very little to no energy expenditure work. If you are thinking of doing some type of energy expenditure while bulking from an aesthetic and not cardiovascular standpoint, you are thinking of what many people think of when they think of a bulking phase, getting huge and shredded at the same time, which is not going to happen unless you have the genetics or some good juice. You would be better served in using this phase for what it was meant, or you will not be getting the most out of it.
I HATE CARDIO. cardio is evil.
if u want to be strong or big avoid it at all costs unless u are doin farmers walk which is acceptable.
cardio = skinny gimp
power lifting = henchness
and bodybuilding is also annoying u get big but ur not strong enough to back up ur muscle capacity… unless ur ronnie coleman… but u aren’t
[quote]roid boi wrote:
I HATE CARDIO. cardio is evil.
if u want to be strong or big avoid it at all costs unless u are doin farmers walk which is acceptable.
cardio = skinny gimp
power lifting = henchness
and bodybuilding is also annoying u get big but ur not strong enough to back up ur muscle capacity… unless ur ronnie coleman… but u aren’t[/quote]
I was gonna ignore this, but now I’m curious: what is henchness?
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
roid boi wrote:
I HATE CARDIO. cardio is evil.
if u want to be strong or big avoid it at all costs unless u are doin farmers walk which is acceptable.
cardio = skinny gimp
power lifting = henchness
and bodybuilding is also annoying u get big but ur not strong enough to back up ur muscle capacity… unless ur ronnie coleman… but u aren’t
I was gonna ignore this, but now I’m curious: what is henchness?[/quote]
being hench as in hard
A lot of big dudes do cardio.
A lot of big dudes do not do cardio.
I don’t think cardio will hinder anything as long as you’re not trying to run marathons or something like that. But then you’ll have the people who go to one extreme and say cardio will make all of your lifting nil and you’ll end up weighing 100 pounds.
Do cardio for a few weeks. If you feel like it’s impeding your gains, cut back for a few weeks or stop completely.