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2008/01/30, 10:00 AM
Hey everyone...
I've recently started working out again regularly at the gym. I'm a 30yr old male.... 6'2" and about 155lbs. My goal is to put some weight on and get definition. I've got my lifting/training worked out (as I have worked out at a gym before). My question is this...I go to the gym 4 days a week...and each day before I work out I do about 10-15 minutes of cardio to warm up. Would it be working against my goals if I did more cardio? maybe going on my days of rest from weight training to do cardio and stretching?
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2008/01/30, 10:01 AM
Not at all. I think 10-15 mins before the work out is a bit much to warm up with. I suggest about 5 mins to warm up. Do any other cardio after workouts or on days off.
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2008/01/30, 03:12 PM
Yeah you can do cardio but as mutt suggested do it after your workout. I am trying to exactly as you are stay lean while gaining muscle mass. It sounds easy enough but you have to be religious on our diets and workouts.
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2008/01/30, 03:44 PM
Im trying to make gains myself and im currently doing NO cardio. Ill begin cardio when I want to trim the weight I put on in bulking but even then cardio isnt necessarily necessary! its all diet and hitting a caloric deficit.
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2008/02/01, 04:35 PM
I am 6'1 and went from 145 to 180 in the last two year, and I was doing cardio all along, but on the off days. Lift 3 times a week, two runs and/or a game of hockey on the off days. Building my cardio capacity I think helped me do the two things I needed to do to start putting on weight and that was; eating more, better, and adding a couple protein shakes; plus lifting heavier (being able to take those deep rhythmic breaths really helps with the heavier sets and I think running helped develop that). It also really helps if you are sore from a heavy routine to go for a run.
Anyway that's what worked for me ( I am 34 and could have had a bit of a metabolic slowdown in their too:-)).
Cheers,
Sean
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2008/02/02, 01:39 PM
When trying to gain, it is pretty optimal to do cardio just enough to promote cardiovascular health. Doing anything much more is pretty much counterproductive, such as increasing cardio endurance capabilities, or just strictly calorie burning to any extent.
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2008/02/02, 06:44 PM
I just about completely stopped cardio for a long time but did it here and there while gaining and it was the best thing I did for myself.
1 I gained better and because I didn't eat wrong I didn't blow up!
2 Now that I'm burning fat that came with the gaining it's coming off allot easier now that I lift and added cardio back in full time!
Cardio is nothing like lifting, when you stop lifting for a long time and lose so much it's very much harder to get back what you had.
Cardio on the other you do lose out when idle but it comes back so much faster and easier as long as you don't completely let your self go in the wrong direction.
I swear to you it took me no more then 2 weeks to get my cardio where I had it before months ago and maybe even a year.
I felt that it would be easiest to gain while doing just about no cardio and that fat burn would be much better to add back into my workout instead of making huge calorie changes to trim the fat and so far it's working like a champ.
I do believe I got this idea from bb1fit and if so he was totally correct.
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2008/02/02, 06:51 PM
Point is cardio during bulk was a walk or ride bike at a pace I walked on the treadmill or at times the elliptical.
Cardio while shedding off the fat for me is running ass off HIIT on treadmill, Stair masters, Stair climbers and anything that I put in just amount of effort into that I also put into my lifting.
Cardio on bulk was pretty much effortless!
Bulk I lifted 4 days a week cardio once in a blue moon.
Fatburn I am lifting 3 days a week doing cardio 2!
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2008/02/03, 11:52 AM
SFG makes an excellent point I forgot to point out. If you just 'maintain' cardiovascular health, believe me, when you go to more cardio to build endurance, burn calories, get heart rate up, you will be no more than a couple of weeks back to that point. You will not 'lose' anything.
And SFG, yes, I have been purporting this regimine for ages.
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