high intensity, anaerobic threshold for cutting?

[bignate73]

well ladies and gents, the time has come for me to start to prep for a show in march. i start "cardio" in december, but want to maintain some degree of anabolism. so here is what i am proposing...let me know if you think this jives or if you have done this.

high intensity anaerobic threshold training.

ie.
sprints
pushing my car around
interval training on a spin bike
etc.

my plan is to implement this in place of boring long drawn out cardio. i should be able to maintain a degree of growth throughout...(im hoping) so i dont just go from growth(now) to tearing down or at least maintaining (cutting).

i'll have to periodize it so i dont overtrain or somehow become accustomed to it. so maybe 3 weeks of this type, then 2 weeks of standard cardio, rotating this.

my plan is to keep my cals higher and adjust my energy output accordingly, vs the other method i employed last time. lower cals and moderate cardio. i drop fat pretty easy so i think this would be a fun way to do some hard training, burn fat and maybe catch some growth in the process.

opinions?

 

[jeremys]

this is exactly the kind of stuff i plan on doing when i cut, which might be pretty soon. i've ballooned up to 260 lbs. lol

chicken, tuna, and oatmeal; here i come!

 

[coolcolj]

Look at my progress pics - between pic 2 and 3, I ate a lot of junk food etc, but I still lost an inch of my waist - all I did was add 4 sprint sessions ...

5x30m sprints + some agility drills - session time 45 mins inclduing warmups and post stretching

 

[Rivaldo]

Look at my progress pics - between pic 2 and 3, I ate a lot of junk food etc, but I still lost an inch of my waist - all I did was add 4 sprint sessions ...

4 x30m sprints + some agility drils - session time 45 mins inclduing warmups and post stretching

4 sprint sessions weekly? Did you do them in the AM and workout in the PM?

 

[coolcolj]

No! 4 sprint sessions total! One per week.

 

[Lord_Suston]

CoolcolJ is right just do sprints and have a somewhat good diet and you will get ripped. I went from 220 to 185 in 3 months and lost no strength and kept getting more shredded and that was just 2x a week doing 4 100m dashes and 2 50m dashes...

 

[coolcolj]

Look at sprinters these guys get ripped by doing tempo runs. Which are 80-90% intensity 150-300m speed endurance runs with full recovery per run.

5 of these 1 or 2 times a week will shread ya up.

 

[bignate73]

holy crap!

well, todays workout

ATF squats
225x6 4 sets

leg press (machine (lifefitness)
stackx12 3 sets

leg extensions
2 drop sets
1 triple drop

then.....

go to the city college parking lot

push my car FAR 3x

it took about a minute of me pushing then i took about 3 min rest

i dont know what the distance was but i told myself "3 light posts" and kept pushing until i got to the third.
i had my girlfriend "drive" and on the first set i told her to pump the brake lightly to get rid of the momentum i had built up. by the last set, there was no need for braking...it felt like she was hitting the brakes all the time. i was spent. took me about 6 min for my heart to get back down to acceptable levels so i could get in the car and go home.

yeowch!

 

[jeremys]

haha, sounds like fun.

is diet as important as this high-intensity 'sprinting' type stuff?

could one theoretically lose bf and still gain mass with a bulking diet but doing sprints 1x a week?

 

[coolcolj]

probbaly not, but you could maintain your fat levels. kinda pointless if you ask me

take lots of fish oil as well