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I did HEAVY resistance training 10x per week, some days 2x per day on less than 30g carbs per day. Sundays were 'carb days'. Week of my meet, I did 30-60minutes of light cycling and walking.
Low carb for women is much harder since that is not only a source of fuel, but helps regulates hormones. A woman without carbs is worse than a woman during that special time of the month...
Mix of aerobic training, weight training and diet. Reading magazines and the internet is (like you said) quite useless.. because it makes people argue over the internet instead of trying what works for them. How do you think people did it prior to the internet being invented? Also funny considering Americans are fatter than ever, so obviously the spread and wealth of information from the internet isn't doing anybody any good.
good point about all the info, and people on average are bigger
its like playing golf, everyone's an expert, but most people arent that good
It's not a matter of cardio versus resistance, it's really a matter of high intensity versus low intensity. It doesn't matter what you do if you do it with a low intensity. You won't induce change or force your body to adapt.
If you want to do resistance exercise, fine, but don't use the 2lb dumbells. Those won't do anything for you. Squat some heavy weight. Increase the weight and volume, or reduce the rest periods incrementally over time.
If you want to do cardio, fine, but don't just do a slow jog barely faster than I can walk for an hour and expect much change. Build your way up to intense sprints, whether it be on the track or in the pool.
Ideally, so a bit of both. Days a intense weight training interspersed with days of intense cardio/sprinting.
You don't need to go full out with cardio to receive benefits. Interval training has its benefits but it's not some, all or nothing.
If it gets your heart rate up, that's good. It doesn't make sense to try and do some, all out weight training session, and follow it up with hill sprints. That's just gonna leave you fatigued and likely lead to an injury at some point. Sprinting isn't even aerobic. It's anaerobic.
Never listen to anyone who tells you that you HAVE to do something. It's a sure sign of a person who doesn't know what the hell they are talking about. If they did, they'd realize there are a million people in better shape than Shampoobanana who do the opposite of what he suggest. And again, that's not saying that sprints aren't good. They are, but saying don't do low intensity cardio because it doesn't work has to be from someone who hasn't been training for more than a year.
Every method is valid. Every method can get results.
I have to take Toprol to keep my heart rate down. Otherwise, it could eventually wreck my heart. Most of my exercise is in a warehouse that gives me decent exercise from lifting and walking, and going up and down stairs.
I did HEAVY resistance training 10x per week, some days 2x per day on less than 30g carbs per day. Sundays were 'carb days'. Week of my meet, I did 30-60minutes of light cycling and walking.
Low carb for women is much harder since that is not only a source of fuel, but helps regulates hormones. A woman without carbs is worse than a woman during that special time of the month...
Mix of aerobic training, weight training and diet. Reading magazines and the internet is (like you said) quite useless.. because it makes people argue over the internet instead of trying what works for them. How do you think people did it prior to the internet being invented? Also funny considering Americans are fatter than ever, so obviously the spread and wealth of information from the internet isn't doing anybody any good.
Haha! Too funny ~ and, unfortunately true in my case. After several days on a severely restricted carb diet - I was NASTY to be around. And I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open.
....That's why cardio isn't the answer. Or, at least, it's not the primary solution. Cardio will burn calories, and weight training is more likely to burn fat. If you're going to do cardio, make it secondary to weight training.
...Olympic Weightlifting is Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 530-7 consisting of 65%-85% snatch/c&J, 85%-110% for clean pulls/snatch pulls and the same for cl/sn deadlifts. Squats are <4 up to 90%.
Strength training is 3-4x per week usually around 9-10am. Mostly sn/cl pulls, squats, front squats, and sn/cl deadlifts. Sometimes I will cycle around noon for 30-60minutes. Prehab is 730-830 (stretching, foam roll, hot tub). I cycle instead of run because at a certain % of hr your body uses fat for energy... furthermore, running (as newjersey says) is not good for muscle retention...
Men's fitness articles seem to be geared toward smaller/leaner men that desperately cling to whatever muscle mass they gain in the weight room.
Longer bouts of cardio are always seen as "bad." This is true for the 160-lb guy trying to gain more definition or muscle mass. For the stocky 215-lb guy (like me), however, we need and can often handle running the extra mile or jumping rope a few minute longer. Those of us that put on muscle and fat with ease should absolutely embrace cardio. Honestly, after seeing biometric screening results from fellow co-workers, I realized that a lot of smaller guys also need to hop on the treadmill.
If I recall correctly, he is in the military, USAF I think.
You assume everyone in the world works 9-5, five days a week? That was rare for me in the military. I usually worked the swing shift while my ship was in port, and the it is a 6 on 12 off (9 on 9 off) while at sea. Shore duty was almost always the night shift 12 on 12 off.
I work 60-70 hours per week, panama schedule and various NCO duties on my 'off days' (NCO's don't have those).
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