CKD question

[jnuts]

I'm currently running a CKD diet and it seems to be working for me. My wife would like to know if this is also effective for somebody who is doing more cardio than I am. She likes to do 30-45 mins of sprinting a couple of times a week and walking on the treadmill anouther 2-3 times a week. I, on the other hand, am not doing much cardio... but I know I should be.

She's trying to lower her bodyfat for a contest in August. Would the amount of cardio she's doing make the CKD "harder" to handle with lower energy. She's also lifting weights about 4x/week.

 

[lodid]

It's all will power at that point.

Cardio + CKD is HARD as hell. Especially at the end of the week.

I would suggest a balanced diet if she's big-time into cardio.

 

[jnuts]

I would suggest a balanced diet if she's big-time into cardio.

I'm with ya on this one. I'm just not sure how much is too much cardio. Any thoughts on that, other than your body will be telling you?

 

[Toozee]

For me, any high intensity type exercise was hard after about Wednesday (ran ckd Sun-Fri evening after depletion; carb then til bedtime Saturday night). It would probably be fine, just may have to do the high intensity stuff earlier in the week. Just have to try it and see probably.

Curious as to what Mr.X would say about this.
Balanced may be the way to go though if alot of her exercise is really high intensity.

 

[jnuts]

Usually only 2 HIT days(sprint work) 2 days mod. walking on the treadmill w/incline. Maybe HIT Mon and Wed. then switch to low-mod. walking Thur & Fri.

 

[jnuts]

Does Mr.X still frequent this board or is he on a different one? Anybody know?

 

[Ceebs]

Mr. X is on Massmonsters.com now, mostly.

Low intensity cardio is aerobic, not glycolytic, and should be fine on a CKD. (If it wasn't, I'd have dropped dead from exhaustion a long time ago. ) I'd recommend that she save the sprints for early in the week when her muscles are full of glycogen, and do low to moderate intensity cardio the rest of the time.

 

[jnuts]

Thanks for the info.