need cardio advice ?

[Daisy_Girl]

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.

Agree 100%.

There is always time - IF you MAKE the time. We are ALL very very busy. If you don't make the time, the results won't come.

 

[The_Monster]

Its no different than all the people who dont have "time" for the gym.
Theyll bowl three times a week, go to the bar after work twice a week, spend all weekend working on their car or something... then they say to me "I dont know HOW you find time to go to the gym???"
Like a magical time fairy shoots out of my butt and grants me two extra hours to each day. LOL

At 5 am, Im cursing the world, cursing life, vowing to destroy all who oppose me, considering throwing myself down the stairs in the hopes of breaking my legs and not having to do cardio... but in the end I get it done.

Its odd, but these days you see very little discipline in people (that isnt directed at anyone BTW). We're an odd breed, we have to have discipline every minute of every day... I have to have the discipline to make sure Im eating every two hours, getting to the gym, getting up in the AM if Im doing cardio, and then the discipline to take care of work and non-gym obligations. I love when people act like training is just sort of my "hobby"
Im 5'10", 300lbs give or take a pound or two... every minute of every day is "training" for me. The morning after max effort squats, its only force of will that gets me out of bed, because my body sure as hell woould rather be laying down!!

 

[Sassy69]

Cardio & training are just like dieting --- it takes a little planning & organization, but if it doesn't fit into your lifestyle, you won't do it. Take a look at your schedule and see what works.

 

[*MissFit*]

....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

Dats what i do

 

[The Shadow]

^^^especially in the morning.........its double effective

 

[*MissFit*]

^^^especially in the morning.........its double effective

always!

 

[Dakotah]

i do cardio for 30 - 45 min a day and have lost about 5 lbs in a week and feel awesome. i do elyptical and stairstepper and then i go swim for an hour or so and during that hour i run laps in the water; my legs feel awesome and it works really well. anyone tried that before?

 

[Sassy69]

is that if you just started doing cardio?? A big drop in a short period of time is usually water weight.

But its still a good thing in the big picture !

 

[Dakotah]

sorry didnt mean to jack anyones thread - but sassy were you talking to me or someone else?

 

[Sassy69]

Sort of a general comment as far as the content of the weight loss due to cardio -- actual fat loss in 1 week is around 1/2 lb? Large drops in weight over a short period of time, particularly if you have a significant change in something you are doing during that time, is due to loss of water weight.