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Cardio on a muscle building phase

muscle99

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Heres whats worked for me on my experience:

Cardio in the morning (First thing! YES AND FASTED IMO)

but most people don't have time to go cardio in the morning

and then weights.

Whats your split? have you considered cardio (HIIT) on off days

and steady state cardio after workouts?

e.g

Monday: Weights + Light cardio

Tuesday: Rest + HIIT cardio

Wednesday: Weights + Light cardio

etc...

Saturday and Sunday: Rest?

But if you like to keep it in one whole workout, definitely cardio after weights, anyone disagree?

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Lskee Member

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anyone do swimming as their cardio?

im thinking of taking it up to do over the winter months...

maybe twice a week or so. ontop of a 4 day hypertrophy program

When i went to jelly park gym, i would always go for a swim after workouts, great way to shred some fat imo

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On a muscle building phase you want to keep your body is as much of an anabolic state as possible. Performing low intensity cardio for long periods of time puts the body into a catobolic state therefore it could be the opposite of what you are looking for.

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Performing low intensity cardio will put the body into a catobolic state therefore is the opposite of what you are looking for.

What a load of shit!

Cardio is fine, it wont put you in a catabolic state where you are going to lose muscle as long as your diet is sufficient.

I do heaps of cardio all year round and I grow fine. You just need to factor the extra activity into your diet.

I grow much better when I have a decent cardio regime along side my weight training. Increased fitness helps me push harder and recover quicker between sets. Ideally tho as mentioned earlier try and seperate them so they are at opposite ends of the day if you can. The biggest benefit of that imo is that you can put maximum effort into both sessions.

Go hard mate, nothing more hilarious than an unfit fat c*nt gasping for air between sets of heavy deadlifts or squats.

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Performing low intensity cardio will put the body into a catobolic state therefore is the opposite of what you are looking for.

What a load of shit!

Cardio is fine, it wont put you in a catabolic state where you are going to lose muscle as long as your diet is sufficient.

I do heaps of cardio all year round and I grow fine. You just need to factor the extra activity into your diet.

I grow much better when I have a decent cardio regime along side my weight training. Increased fitness helps me push harder and recover quicker between sets. Ideally tho as mentioned earlier try and seperate them so they are at opposite ends of the day if you can. The biggest benefit of that imo is that you can put maximum effort into both sessions.

Go hard mate, nothing more hilarious than an unfit fat c*nt gasping for air between sets of heavy deadlifts or squats.

I agree with all of this. You have been nominated..

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Yeah-Buddy, that's good feedback for me...

Just so we are clear you believe doing cardio is going to improve muscle size?

Also, are you saying that doing low intensity cardio will help you with recovery between high intensity weight training sets?

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Yeah-Buddy, that's good feedback for me...

Just so we are clear you believe doing cardio is going to improve muscle size?

Also, are you saying that doing low intensity cardio will help you with recovery between high intensity weight training sets?

The resulting benefits of cardio will absolutely help you improve muscle size. As long as your cardio activity is factored in and accounted for in your daily nutrition, why wouldnt it? If you can recover quicker between sets and after workouts because you are fit you will without a doubt do better.

Im not saying cardio on its own will increase hypertrophy, but when done in conjunction with your weight training will yield good results.

Low intensity cardio will help develop/maintain an aerobic base. I dont do long cardios often mainly because i hate it but I do low intensity sessions as well as high intensity HITT sessions for both the aerobic and anerobic benefits. (I always seperate my cardio and weights to morning and night workouts).

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Optimass Veteran member

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Cardio is your friend. I have been experimenting lately with high intensity cardio in my program - and it's helping me maintain a good level of fitness without taxing any size. It is also helping me to mentally focus in getting back into routine of resistance training more seriously. (and at work also)

I do my weight training first as its the primary focus and then hit the treadmill straight after. This way my energy stores are optimum for resistance training. Then aim for 1 hour after. (2-3 times per week)

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I just couldn't bulk and do cardio at same time.

Bulking to me is excess calories and cardio burns...calories. I like the analogy of the big f*cker in the gym panting away on the equipment, he's big that's his goal lol

f*ck functional, as long as it looks good... hmm healthy.

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