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Does cardio delay muscle recovery?
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Joe Stenson
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I'd say it effects recovery slightly (and much moreso for HIIT), but not enough to worry about if you feel like doing it.
Singleton
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I think if you're conditioned, you'll recover from your weights better, but to do the conditioning, you will use up some resources that would have been used to recover from the weights.
Or you can take another viewpoint (not opinion) and look at basketball players and dancers. you could not train like they do and expect gains right away, but over time, your body would adapt and you would have such conditioning that would tolerate the exercise and recover from it.
Or you can take another viewpoint (not opinion) and look at basketball players and dancers. you could not train like they do and expect gains right away, but over time, your body would adapt and you would have such conditioning that would tolerate the exercise and recover from it.
LoneTree said:
Active rest (no more than 60% of estimated max heart rate), will speed recovery faster than complete rest alone. 10-20 minutes of light aerobic activity post workout removes approximately 60-85% of the lactic acid built up in your muscles. Without active rest, it can take the body up to 4 hours to completely clear the lactic acid and other metabolic wastes from the muscle tissue.
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bicepts101
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sparetire said:
Andy13 is up there in the catagory also
this is a pretty basic fact that light cardio after a workout help remove lactic acid. i have heard it before. also massaging and stretching after a workout.
Cardio works by increasing circulation to wash out lactic acid after a work out.
But the circulation is already high after a work out.
What is recommended by the academics is low resistance (30%), high volume work out when muscles are no longer painful to touch, but are still sore.
But the circulation is already high after a work out.
What is recommended by the academics is low resistance (30%), high volume work out when muscles are no longer painful to touch, but are still sore.
Andy13 said:
Active and Passive recovery are both textbook principles in exercise physiology. There is copious ammounts of information and research in regards to the pros and cons of both subjects. I'd recommend referencing an actual textbook for a general as well as a detailed overview on the subject matter. There isn't very much quality fundamental information that can be found on the web and I'm sure you are aware of the importance of understanding the fundamentals and then applying them accordingly in the proper enviornment.
More importantly, the emphasis on these principles needs to placed on how they are applied. When applied intermittently duing anaerboic activity, passive recovery techniques have been shown at times to have an advantage over active recovery techniques. This is more than likely attributed to creatine phosphate resynthesis and myoglobin reoxygenation. If you do infact decide to research this topic more, please take into account the methods used to conduct the particular study. Some studies conclude that active recovery shows no discernable differnece in plasma lactate clearance versus passive recovery. However, they don't take into account the impact of increased blood flow on decreasing intracellular lactate concentrations and ATP synthesis.
With respect to the role of lactic acid and recovery, I should probably clarify that my comments are foccused on performance/power output & muscle fatigue and not so much as to muscle soreness. In addition, I would also like to mention that additional glycogen depletion may be of concern to some individuals and should also be accounted for when applying active recovery techniques.
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wayneboard1
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Dial_tone said:
Dang man 28 miles? I take it you are cutting? How often do you do cardio when bulking?
wayneboard1
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Dial_tone said:
Geesh I don't know if all my cardio in a week adds up to 28 miles. Apparently I have found a weak spot in my routine!
taste-icles
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We (when I was a cat-1, elite rider) usually do an hour or two spinning warm ups before a race, then ride sometimes for 6 hours in really tough stages. Remember the winner of the tour de france spends about 100hours riding in 28 days and several thousand miles. 100 hours is longer than the cumulative playing time of troy aikmen's two decade long football career. and that is just one race...Dial_tone said:
Before I had to stop from skin cancer, I rode for three years straight, no breaks for anything. I rode from costa mesa, to san diego county line and back everyday, riding for 100+miles on average PER DAY.
My thighs btw, after a long hill climb get so HUGE, I had a 30 inch waist and had to buy baggy 36in waist jeans to just put them on, and then they were still skin tight. I was thinking of a kilt... I used to take dbol as a cyclist too, my strength was awesome, but no painful pumps... endurance atheletes are VERY different, though when i play lacrosse i bulk up really fast.
bicepts101
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kcpmeo22 said:
he saying it depends on how fast he is doing the 28 miles.....and dialtone is huge.....
sandman_007
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i usually do light cardio after my workout, about 15 minutes for 200 calories burned. The only exception is i never do cardio after a leg workout. my legs are just too dead to do any in that case.
Güclü_oglan
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i read somewhere that light cardio increases the insulin sensitivity in your muscles dunno how true it is but it might be worth considering
Joe Stenson
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Güclü_oglan said:
I think it's ANY cardio, not just light...but I could be wrong.
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