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Warik
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Yes... it's another one of those "I'm training my girl - what should I do?" posts. =)
My girl started working out with me about 6 weeks ago with the goal of "losing weight and toning up" (which I corrected to be "burning fat and building muscle" ). She has definitely put on some muscle in the past 6 weeks, because her bis and quads are noticibly harder, and she is lifting much more than when she started. Her weight, however, has increased, and her size has not changed much. I didn't want to start with any cardio because a) I didn't want to scare her away from the gym and b) I hate cardio. But the time has come. We are having our first cardio session on those crazy bikes tonight after doing arms & abs.
I was thinking of cardio 3x a week starting with a small time and small resistence level (5 minutes at level 1) for the first week and then increasing the time limits and levels every following week. My question is, how much is good enough to start, and what should her cardio goals be? How quickly should we start seeing sufficient results to indicate that the level of cardio being done is doing any good?
Thanks,
-Warik
My girl started working out with me about 6 weeks ago with the goal of "losing weight and toning up" (which I corrected to be "burning fat and building muscle" ). She has definitely put on some muscle in the past 6 weeks, because her bis and quads are noticibly harder, and she is lifting much more than when she started. Her weight, however, has increased, and her size has not changed much. I didn't want to start with any cardio because a) I didn't want to scare her away from the gym and b) I hate cardio. But the time has come. We are having our first cardio session on those crazy bikes tonight after doing arms & abs.
I was thinking of cardio 3x a week starting with a small time and small resistence level (5 minutes at level 1) for the first week and then increasing the time limits and levels every following week. My question is, how much is good enough to start, and what should her cardio goals be? How quickly should we start seeing sufficient results to indicate that the level of cardio being done is doing any good?
Thanks,
-Warik