Real BEST Cardio

[Nelson Montana]

Irrelevant. The same principle applies to everyone and I've had hundreds of clients to prove it --ecto, endo and meso.

At my age, ectomorph doesn't apply. Try weighing 190 at age 49 and get back to me about how easy it is to stay lean.

Besides, if cardio was so great it would get me down to 8% bf. But it doesn't.

Training and diet. Training and diet.

Aerobics are a waste of time.

 

[JoNaThAnPeTeRs]

Irrelevant. The same principle applies to everyone and I've had hundreds of clients to prove it --ecto, endo and meso.

At my age, ectomorph doesn't apply. Try weighing 190 at age 49 and get back to me about how easy it is to stay lean.

Besides, if cardio was so great it would get me down to 8% bf. But it doesn't.

Training and diet. Training and diet.

Aerobics are a waste of time.

so the pros do cardio for what reason then? maybe the cardio u are doing is inefficient for your body and you have to change/alter it accordingly...for some walking for an hour works wonders, for you, i take it, you have to do a different type for similiar results...i guess i am lucky then...

also, what diet do you recommend...im curious, maybe ill give it a shot coming up when i cut up...

 

[prophet]

diet will only get you so far you need to exercise to boost metaolic rate

 

[siceone]

why would you run in the morning cosidering than your cortisol levels are so high

 

[juiceheadnyc]

In my opinion i think u will burn fat with any cardio where u sweat and bring up ur heart rate..I how long u would want to do it for really depends on the individual and really doesnt have to be a specific number of minutes..if ur a fat bastard then in the first 5 min u will prob start burning where as if u been doing it for a while then u would need much more since ur used to it and will be much easier for u...as far as basketball players not being big i think thats cause i dont think they would be as flexible if they had huge muscles i dont think that the basketball playing itself is killing there muscles...

 

[MiamiStyle245]

Absolutely...basketball players definitely do not want to be so big that their flexibility is hindered, but if you follow basketball, you probably have noticed the 15 lbs of muscle Kobe Bryant put on in the offseason. I think that the trend of working out in basketball started with the the man himself, Michael Jordan. Having increased lean muscle mass can help you no matter what position you play in basketball, but the players with the nice physiques(although not big, but lean and cut) definitely hit the weights. It goes back to whether basketball is anabolic or aerobic. I have heard that sprinting is anabolic and therefore good for getting lean while preserving muscle because you are raising your heartrate while developing muscle, rather than burning it. If you were to compare pics of sprinters to those of distance runners, their physiques are incomparable. To me is seems that basketball would not really be aerobic because there is a lot of resting and quick bursts of energy involved. I'm not sure though.

 

[Seth]

I think that anyone who suggests that you can eat pizza every day and still be lean without doing any cardio has lost all credibility in this argument.


Genetics play a huge roll in this, and he obviously has better genetics for staying lean then I do.

 

[Nelson Montana]

You're missing my point. No cardio doesn't mean no fat burning. What I'm saying is that proper training burns fat better than aerobics. Do you think that that after 30 years of training I still need to find the cardio that's right for me?

Eating pizza doesn't mean eating sloppy. It means you can eat what you want if you eat correctly. And I hardly have great genetics. But having better genes or worse genes has nothing to do with it. It's about getting the best results possible -- whatever your genetic potential.

Some pros do cardio, some don't. A lot of them are clueless. They just have great genetics and take tremendous amounts of drugs. I disagreed with Mentzer on a lot of things but he didn't do cardio and got pretty ripped in his day. Arnold didn't do cardio. Many of you may not remember Zabo Kosewski but he had the most amazing abs you ever saw. No cardio.

Sweating gives the impression leanness because you lose water. You do not burn fat when you sweat. Heart rate does not effect fat loss.

This is just one of those things some people will never get. They're too entrenched in the mind set of what they've been led to believe for too long.

 

[runner]

nelson: personal testimonials are wonderful. my hats off to you, but i'd prefer to see some data and science to back up your claims (and anyone else's for that matter).

my grandmother smokes two packs a day and is now 96. she tells me smoking is good for her. surely i just can't take HER word for it, can i?

 

[liftsiron]

Glutimine will do nothing except raise ammonia levels in the bood.


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Nelson, glutimine is quite valuable as an anticatabolic, it helps to prevent muscle catabolism, boosts the immune system, repairs any damege that one may have in the intestinal tract, and helps to maximize nutrient absorbtion from the intestines. As for the above statement about raising blood ammonia levels, that's way off center. Glutimine is the vehicle by which ammonia is transported from tissues through the circulatory system where it can be excreated in urine. Low glutimine levels can lead to excessive ammonia build up not vice versa.