Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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aerobic exercising in ft program?

mazzgolf
mazzgolf
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Joined: 2002/05/28
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2002/06/11, 02:23 PM
I'm doing the 3-day-a-week Progressive Gains ft program. I need to figure out when in the program I should do aerobic exercise (i.e. bike) and how long each session on the bike should last.

I did a search on the mailing lists and I can't get a good handle on this. Am I right in the understanding that you can warm up on the bike for about 5 minutes prior to lifting, but don't do a full session on the bike until after you've finished all your sets? What about on the off-days of the weight training schedule - should you hit the bike then instead?

I'm asking this because, while I need to do some aerobics, I don't want it to negatively affect the muscles gains that I achieve with the weights.

Thanks for any tips... John
ltroisi
ltroisi
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Joined: 2001/11/06
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2002/06/11, 02:26 PM
There are many schools of though on this....you can do a warm up on the bike then do some cardio after lifting. Also you can do cardio first thing in the morning, emplty stomach on non lifting days.

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qualters
qualters
Posts: 343
Joined: 2002/04/21
United States
2002/06/11, 04:01 PM
Also remember your diet. To gain weight you must not burn more calories then you are consuming. Do a seacrh on cardio too here at ft, there is soooo musch info on it.
Good Luck

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