need cardio advice ?

[buffchic69]

Hi all.

what I am currently doing for cardio is: Bike, jogging, or jump rope for 10 minutes 3 x a day. Mon thru Fri. Sat & Sun. no cardio.

I do 10 min after breakfast, another 10 min after lunch, & the last 10 min after work or after dinner.

I want to drop some body fat, but not do so much cardio that I risk losing my muscle mass. plus I weight train 5 x a week.

Any advice ?


Thanks

 

[velvett]

I have to ask.

Any reason why you couldn't do 30 minutes before breakfast only?

ALso, about how much fat do you want to lose? roughly.

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Splitting up the 30 min is good for the heart, but does little to nothing for fat loss.

 

[Sassy69]

It takes a good 20 min of cardio just to get the fat burning process going.

 

[The_Monster]

As Im not a platinum member, I cant do an advanced search, but if someone can dig up an old post by WarLobo call "When 30+30 Doesnt = 60" it might be of some help...

 

[Sassy69]

I looked for that but I think some of that choice material was wiped out.

The upshot is that the fat burning results of 2 30 minute cardio sessions is less than the fat burning of one solid 60 minutes of the same cardio. It takes a period of time to set up the fat burning process and then all the time after it contributes to sustaining it. If you do 2 30 min sessions, then say it takes you about 20 min to get the fat burning established, you actually spend 40 of that total cardio effort setting up and really only 20 min burning. On a 60 min session, you actually get 40 min of sustained fat burning.

 

[The Shadow]

....yep.


OR........if you must...do weights and THEN cardio......its more efficient:

1 - body is already warmed up and primed in tre zone

2 - glycogenlevels are also lowered

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

Hi all.

what I am currently doing for cardio is: Bike, jogging, or jump rope for 10 minutes 3 x a day. Mon thru Fri. Sat & Sun. no cardio.

I do 10 min after breakfast, another 10 min after lunch, & the last 10 min after work or after dinner.

I want to drop some body fat, but not do so much cardio that I risk losing my muscle mass. plus I weight train 5 x a week.

Any advice ?


Thanks

if you run sprints all out lilke at 75-90% of your max for 10 minutes/3 day- you will burn more calories (ie drop fat, not muscle) than 30 minutes of jogging. Intensity is more important than time.

 

[buffchic69]

To be totally honest I don't have the time for 30 minutes of cardio, I barely have the 40-45 minutes for my weight training.

And I roughly want to lose only about 10 lbs of fat.

Thanks

 

[The_Monster]

Youre really just wasting your time doing 10 minutes. Youre accomplishing absolutly nothing, just spend the 10 minutes getting 10 minutes ahead of what you would have been doing next.

I used to get up at 5 am to do cardio. Its not the kind of thing you do when there is time, because there never will be... its the kind of think you make time for.