is cardio really necessary

[Rudee34]

Basic exercises... (squats, rows, presses, curls, dips, etc)
High Intensity, Low duration...
Minimum rest periods
Rest

 

[Burning_Inside]

The way i see it, if you're burning 500 or so calories a day from cardio or from weight training, then it's still a defacit either way. So if your daily bmr is 2500, and you want to lose wight, you have 3 choices... you can eat in a 500 calorie or so defacit per day, which means you have to eat less. Or, you can take option 2 and do enough cardio to burn off 500 calories. Or you can lift, and burn 500 calories. If you're eaiting in caloric defacit, you're not going to gain muscle from this, but, you will burn calories. ust pick your poison. If you burn 500 cals a day, or eat in defacit of 500 cals from your daily bmr, you WILL lose a pound of fat per week.

 

[Rudee34]

The problem is that people peform far too much exercise and restrict calories too drastically while dieting, thus instead of 500 calories below maintenance, they are 1000 or more calories below maintenance. This does nothing but slow metabolism.

Secondly, many people spend far too much time in the gym with too few calories. Your hormones change drastically as the workout becomes catabolic. This generally occurs after 45 minutes of intense exercise. You can either workout long or workout hard, but you can't do both. If you attempt to do both you will risk losing muscle tissue.

Short infrequent bouts of high intensity exercise are proven to be the best stimulus of of muscle growth, and natural anabolic hormones (growth hormone), while maintaining catabolic hormones (cortisol). Remember, cortisol is the enemy of anyone looking to add muscle, thus the quicker you can get in, get your job done, and go home and rest - the better!

 

[poysyn]

Cardio will work wonders until you've depleted your glycogen stores. What happens after that, makes all the difference in the world.

If you continue cardio with a depleted glycogen level, with a sufficient daily intake of calories (food specific), cardio will slowly emulsify bodyfat. However.... If you continue cardio with a depleted glycogen level with a insufficient daily intake of calories, then your body will go into the catabolic state causing metabolism to decrease and fat emulsification to cease. As you can see, the most important factor is calories.

The bottom line: If your not taking in enough calories to support the cardio (or strength training sessions) your headed down a path of failure.

I think this whole point needs to be emphasized again..karma to you (even though its not much )

And on a side note..in your professional opinon (rudee) are the bmr calculators accurate? I wish there was some way to find exactly what my bmr is without spending massive amounts of $$ on the scientific tests or whatever the hell they are..

 

[Rainbows]

I've read that after 6 to 8 weeks your body adapts to cardio . I read this in an ironman article that had an interview with Charles Poliquin.... anyone else have any info on this issue?

yes you must change either the intensity or duration, or both, to increase your cardio fitness level.

 

[The Dorf]

but cardio.. is like cardio. just gettin your heart in the target range for whover you are and whatever your target heart range is.

sooooo if you do some intense workin out and your heart pops up to your target heart range are you not also doin cardio.

so this guy can just do his weight lifting in a way to also raise his heart beat to a level where it is also considered cardio.

Super sets usually do it for me. but I dont know.

 

[oso0690]

lol I don't think these people that posted in 2001 are still here

 

[pintoca]

5 years old thread?