How often should I do cardio?

Baseballkid14 · Post by **Baseballkid14** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 5:46 pm

how many days is enough, how many is too much?

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Mystik · Post by **Mystik** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:28 am

Are you weight training as well?

cassiegose · Post by **cassiegose** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:33 pm

For best results I've found 3-4 days of week for weights and 2 days of HIIT work well.... If you're only doing 3 days of weights you could also do weights every other day, HIIT on the days that you're not doing weights and throw in another day of long slower cardio on a day when you haven't done HIIT or weights.

Packard · Post by **Packard** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 1:51 pm

I'm going to go with 3 - 5 days per week; 30 minutes per day.

You should do a bit of math to see what target heart rate you should try to attain.

The Texas State University site gives pretty clear instructions for determining that target rate: http://www.healthcenter.txstate./hea ... cardio.htm

The University of Maryland also give instructions; both suggest 3 - 5 times per week for frequency and that is the nubmer I've always heard.

See: http://www.recsports.ufl./cardio_why.aspx

Boopster · Post by **Boopster** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:09 pm

Ditto what Cassie said

Baseballkid14 · Post by **Baseballkid14** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:31 pm

Thanks All!