Hello!
I'm a fairly big, muscular guy. I work in security. I do fairly regular weight lifting, but have been negligent in cardio. I'm 44 and would like to get back in shape, aerobically but it's so bad I'm embarrassed to jog in public. Yesterday I bought a used treadmill. This morning I spent about 15to minutes on it and loved getting heart pounding and lungs burning.
SO! For optimal results, should I get on it once a day? Twice a day? Every 6 hours? Everyrime lungs stop burning? I know how to work muscles (ie pecs quads and biceps.. as in resting is at least as important as excercise) but am pretty hopeless when it comes to cardio. Help?
Help me with pacing?
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Re: Help me with pacing?
Try fitting in a basic level of cardio where you do 30 minteus of something like exercise bike after a workout, 3x a week.
3x a week should be enough to devlop a level of increased conditioning, because the time between sessions, means you won't be promoting small increases in conditioning that fade, like you would if you did Cardio once or twice a week, so 3x a week should allow these increases to accumulate, giving you some kind of enhanced aerobic condition.
3x a week should be enough to devlop a level of increased conditioning, because the time between sessions, means you won't be promoting small increases in conditioning that fade, like you would if you did Cardio once or twice a week, so 3x a week should allow these increases to accumulate, giving you some kind of enhanced aerobic condition.
Re: Help me with pacing?
When developing muscles it's important to give them ample rest between workouts. Muscles actually "build" as they "heal" from the stress of the workout. Does the same thing apply to cardio or is it beneficial to go ahead and do a cardio workout every day or even more?
Re: Help me with pacing?
Cardiovascular improvement, happens better with more frequency, but not necessarily length, as in regards to length, it depends on the chosen length of sessions, as to whether more duration might help or hinder, but like anything, too much is too much.
Doing five sessions a week, for about thirty minutes, versus just three sessions a week, (cardio only, not weights), would almost certainly provide a better aerobic yield and improve the speed at which you could obtain eventual achievement, but also you could reach a potential peak, that three sessions a week would not permit.
However factoring in weights, changes this scenario to some degree and therefore if you're doing 3-5 days of weights, which for your situation would be the primary focus, cardio would be best limited to 3 days a week, as I think 5 days of Cardio plus weights, might be a little over doing it and may also be counterproductive, if you stimulate a situation, where your body enters a good muscle building environment and then too much cardio permits small amounts of muscle burning, as that's counterproductive.
Doing five sessions a week, for about thirty minutes, versus just three sessions a week, (cardio only, not weights), would almost certainly provide a better aerobic yield and improve the speed at which you could obtain eventual achievement, but also you could reach a potential peak, that three sessions a week would not permit.
However factoring in weights, changes this scenario to some degree and therefore if you're doing 3-5 days of weights, which for your situation would be the primary focus, cardio would be best limited to 3 days a week, as I think 5 days of Cardio plus weights, might be a little over doing it and may also be counterproductive, if you stimulate a situation, where your body enters a good muscle building environment and then too much cardio permits small amounts of muscle burning, as that's counterproductive.