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Question for the Naturals - how much cardio do you do precontest?
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SteelWeaver
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Slowly taper up from 3x45 or so/wk to 2 hrs/day near the end. I have lately realised that nature has dealt me a handful of the thriftiest genes on the planet. Either that or I'm doing something seriously wrong with my diet. Whatever - I need lots of cardio to shift the fat.
hardasnails73
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JJ,
To answer your question it really its person specific. What i can suggest to do is to mix up your cardio. These seems to work the best. I suggest that lower intensity cardio be done 3 -4 times a week first thing in the moring and your HIT sessions 2-3 times a week be done on a non work out day and later at night time (5 pm ) Another experiment you may want to do is to keep your diet consistent and do 3 days of HIT training on non workout days and then the following week do the traditional 5 days o low intesity (30-40 mins) first thing in the morning and see what yields the best results. I believe a conclusion you may come to is that the 3 days of HIT (20 minutes) will yield better results then the 5 days of longer slower duration. AS we spoke on saturdday at the contest. By the way i do have photos I can send you and if you need help getting ready just give me a holler and I'll see what I can do to help.
You look great on saturday, I think you may have listen to too many people for last week of prep or you might havegotten confused. Feel free to give me a PM and i'll help you et it right for next time
Hardasnails
To answer your question it really its person specific. What i can suggest to do is to mix up your cardio. These seems to work the best. I suggest that lower intensity cardio be done 3 -4 times a week first thing in the moring and your HIT sessions 2-3 times a week be done on a non work out day and later at night time (5 pm ) Another experiment you may want to do is to keep your diet consistent and do 3 days of HIT training on non workout days and then the following week do the traditional 5 days o low intesity (30-40 mins) first thing in the morning and see what yields the best results. I believe a conclusion you may come to is that the 3 days of HIT (20 minutes) will yield better results then the 5 days of longer slower duration. AS we spoke on saturdday at the contest. By the way i do have photos I can send you and if you need help getting ready just give me a holler and I'll see what I can do to help.
You look great on saturday, I think you may have listen to too many people for last week of prep or you might havegotten confused. Feel free to give me a PM and i'll help you et it right for next time
Hardasnails
JJFigure
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Please send me your photos - I promised I would post some. I would feel better about second place if the first place girl had been better balanced; oh well, I'll get her next time. 
I definitely screwed up that last week of prep; I never hold water on my abs and this time I definitely did. It was better during the pre-judging (luckily) but just seemed to get worse later in the day. I definitely need to make different carb/fat choices for the last week.
I definitely screwed up that last week of prep; I never hold water on my abs and this time I definitely did. It was better during the pre-judging (luckily) but just seemed to get worse later in the day. I definitely need to make different carb/fat choices for the last week.
