Best choice for cardio while cutting bodyfat?

[gymtime]

Cardio is cardio...pick the least catabolic thing possible. Like eliptical or walking.

Diet is where it's at for fat loss.

Exactly. The point of cardio is to get your heart rate up. How you do that is almost irrelevant. Diet is key. In fact many argue that if your diet is sound and you lift consistently, you don't need cardio at all. Debatable of course, but you get the point.

 

[gettinlarger]

I remember Cornholio saying that walking on an incline on a treadmill is the most effective. i.e. burns the most calories per hour.

Pick things you enjoy doing man. But you must diet too.

 

[casualbb]

Exactly. The point of cardio is to get your heart rate up.

Exactly. When you can do, that, though, without overfatiguing a particular bodypart, it's even better. What I mean is, say you do sprints before leg day. You probably wouldn't want that. So, rowing machines and swimming are great because they allow all muscles to work you into that high heartrate, not unduly fatiguing any of them and hurting your workouts.

-casualbb

 

[gymtime]

Exactly. When you can do, that, though, without overfatiguing a particular bodypart, it's even better. What I mean is, say you do sprints before leg day. You probably wouldn't want that. So, rowing machines and swimming are great because they allow all muscles to work you into that high heartrate, not unduly fatiguing any of them and hurting your workouts.

-casualbb

Agreed. As I'm cutting right now, I'm finding the eliptical/cross trainer thingy much less catabolic than the am jogging I did two years ago.

 

[Curious George]

Try interval training. There are a lot of great posts at www.anabolicfitness.net by a fella names Fukkenshredded. That dude is unbelievable on getting ripped.

Check it out for the best advise given.

 

[collegiateLifter]

high intesity interval training and low intesity aerobic work both have their merits.

 

[Lee]

everyone goes about gettin cut their own way. but the fact still remins, diet is 90% of the work.

 

[Dante666]

Well, the dieting part is definitely on track. I've been focused in the past, but since the new year I've been insane. I'm currently about two weeks into my cutting and I'm down 8.3 lbs (fairly accurate measurement, I have no idea of bodyfat until after week 4). The end of week three is in three days. I can't find a rowing machine so I'm sticking to the sprints with the occasional elliptical if I want low intensity longer workouts. You guys are awesome, I truly appreciate how everyone has chimed in...if anything it really has helped to raise my motivation even higher.

 

[MJSbossman]

Doing high intesity cardio boosts growth hormone levels. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but growth hormone burns bodyfat.

I agree diet is key. I used to drink a weightgainer shake with 100g of carbs right before bed when bulking, but now I just drink a protein shake.

 

[jackangel]

From what I've read, I'll agree that some form of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is the best for losing fat while keeping muscle. People also like it because it's short (15-20 minutes) and because of the intensity, two reasons which help stave off boredom when doing cardio. Most of the calories are burned not during exercise, but afterwards, due to changes in the metabolism.

I remember reading a thread about rowing and HIIT somewhere, which said that rowing could work well for HIIT, provided that proper technique was used (some wouldn't use their legs enough, and so couldn't push their intensity to the max).