Hi guys, What’s the best steady state cardio alternative in the Post-wo in order to losing fat and preserving muscle mass as more is it possible?
- More frequency of cardio trainings: for example, only 15 minutes post-wo cardio, 4 times per-week
- More duration: 30 minutes of cardio training in the post-wo, 2 times per-week
I have the possibility to do cardio only in the post-wo.I don’t like High intensity training in the post-wo… so this is the only alternative I am interested to(yes, I already follow a proper diet, but I want to do cardio to lose fat faster and because I would like eat more :D)
[quote]Jnatural wrote:
Hi guys, What’s the best steady state cardio alternative in the Post-wo in order to losing fat and preserving muscle mass as more is it possible?
- More frequency of cardio trainings: for example, only 15 minutes post-wo cardio, 4 times per-week
- More duration: 30 minutes of cardio training in the post-wo, 2 times per-week
I have the possibility to do cardio only in the post-wo.I don’t like High intensity training in the post-wo… so this is the only alternative I am interested to(yes, I already follow a proper diet, but I want to do cardio to lose fat faster and because I would like eat more :D)
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people wanna believe that when they do “300 calories” of cardio, they can eat 300 more calories of food. I think that’s a crock of shit. maybe a lucky few, that might be true…
you say you don’t like high intensity training… but you gotta learn to man. to me, that’s really the best option. that or getting your diet exact. but hiit is, in my opinion, like deadlift, squats, bench press, or pullups… its just something you HAVE to do. it’s a necessary evil… and it sucks, and sucks, and sucks… but DO IT.
This is not the point. I like Hiit more than steady state cardio, but doing it when I train legs 2 times a week it’s too heavy, It inhibits the legs recovery for me.
I do hiit occasionally every 7-14 days just for “fun” when I don’t go to the gym, but I prefer steady state cardio as instrument to lose fat.
However, what do you think about my question??
[quote]Jnatural wrote:
Hi guys, What’s the best steady state cardio alternative in the Post-wo in order to losing fat and preserving muscle mass as more is it possible?
- More frequency of cardio trainings: for example, only 15 minutes post-wo cardio, 4 times per-week
- More duration: 30 minutes of cardio training in the post-wo, 2 times per-week
I have the possibility to do cardio only in the post-wo.I don’t like High intensity training in the post-wo… so this is the only alternative I am interested to(yes, I already follow a proper diet, but I want to do cardio to lose fat faster and because I would like eat more :D)
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between those two options, id go with more frequency. i remember once reading an article… and they said a person who does 30 min of cardio in a day wont lost as much fat as the person who does 2 15 min sessions.
but a better option is doing extremely low intensity cardio… like walking on a treadmill while watchin a movie, putting a stationary bike in front of your tv and pedaling slowly.
back on the hiit thing, another option is to do a hiit session immediately after or before your leg routines… so it doesn’t impede your recovery time. and because hiit is anaerobic, it will promote speed, power, explosiveness… which will help your leg lifts.
I see, It sounds rational, thanks. I think I’ll do 15 minutes of hiit on the legs days and 15-20 minutes of steady state cardio in the other ones.
I am just worried about Hiit on the heavy leg day when I lift on 5-6 reps range.
[quote]Jnatural wrote:
I see, It sounds rational, thanks. I think I’ll do 15 minutes of hiit on the legs days and 15-20 minutes of steady state cardio in the other ones.
I am just worried about Hiit on the heavy leg day when I lift on 5-6 reps range.[/quote]
just play it by ear, watch your lifts closely and make sure they keep progressing… if they don’t, cut the hiit or eat more.
[quote]Jnatural wrote:
I see, It sounds rational, thanks. I think I’ll do 15 minutes of hiit on the legs days and 15-20 minutes of steady state cardio in the other ones.
I am just worried about Hiit on the heavy leg day when I lift on 5-6 reps range.[/quote]
I like complexes for cardio/conditioning, you can go as heavy or light as you want on them; I like to take some complexes up to 165 for 3 reps and some as light as 95 for 6-10 reps. I can always bang out some light ones at the end of my workout no matter how hard the real work is. I also think they may help with hypertrophy, I can only speculate on that, however I’m certain they preserve more muscle than steady-state cardio