Question to cPTs - About: Cardio on training days...

[mistilz]

I dont recall where I read it, but it stated that cardio on weight training days scientifically... that it deminishes mass gains? or muscle mass?

[txapn]

i dont think it does to the point that deserves special attention! the important part of cardio IMO is intensity, focusing on making sure the intensity is where it needs to get the desired effect and its important it is used at the right time!

45 min of sprints after weight training is an example of too high of intensity at wrong time = (in most cases) diminishing muscle mass

[lexinak]

I dont recall where I read it, but it stated that cardio on weight training days scientifically... that it deminishes mass gains? or muscle mass?

That's silly and incorrect. None of the clients you see, unless you're an olympic bodybuilding coach, which you're not because you're posting a vague and basic question on the bb.com fora, will need to restrict their cardio in order to make good strength gains.

[mistilz]

are u reputable? just saying...

simple question... I read it somewhere and I would like some cPT's to clarify... maybe it was sean hyson or nate greeen. UGH CANT REMEMBER!

Me Olympic body building coach? HAHA RIGHT! :)

[alfredofatale]

This isn't entirely true and it definitely depends on how you define "cardio." Even Dorian says a little cardio in the off-season is effective for the recovery because it gets blood moving through your system. Here's the catch though, he is referring to doing ten minutes of walking on a treadmill on three non-consecutive days. THAT'S NOT CARDIO!! Cardiovascular conditioning by definition is training at a level that will increase the hearts ability to pump increasing amounts of blood and oxygen to the muscles. Unless you're 500 pounds and never workout, ten minutes of walking is just going to warm the body slightly.

Back to the topic. Think of this: You just finished doing an intense fiber-splitting leg workout Monday. You come in on Tuesday and jog 6 miles on the treadmill....you come in Wednesday and do 10 sets of sprints on the treadmill with an incline. You are ****ing your recovery up like crazy, man!! How are those legs suppose to recover and grow if you keep killing'em?! See where I'm goin' with this?....A lil' bit of aerobic activity is fine like the ten minutes Dorian advocated, but doing real cardio....yeh, you're just burnin' more calories, man. Hope this helps. Laters! ;)


I dont recall where I read it, but it stated that cardio on weight training days scientifically... that it deminishes mass gains? or muscle mass?

[Keltron]

That's silly and incorrect. None of the clients you see, unless you're an olympic bodybuilding coach, which you're not because you're posting a vague and basic question on the bb.com fora, will need to restrict their cardio in order to make good strength gains.An olympic bodybuilding coach? BB is in the Olympics now? Sweet.

[lexinak]

An olympic bodybuilding coach? BB is in the Olympics now? Sweet.

You get the point. Either he's an extremely high-level coach whose clients really do reap material benefits from doing exactly the right number of seconds of cardio on exactly the right days of the week, or he's an ignorant (and slightly illiterate) ordinary trainer whose clients will see benefits regardless of how specifically they time their strength and cardio workouts. In the first case, he'd already know the answer to his question and not come to the internet to ask us.

[Quistfitness]

You get the point. Either he's an extremely high-level coach whose clients really do reap material benefits from doing exactly the right number of seconds of cardio on exactly the right days of the week, or he's an ignorant (and slightly illiterate) ordinary trainer whose clients will see benefits regardless of how specifically they time their strength and cardio workouts. In the first case, he'd already know the answer to his question and not come to the internet to ask us.

Well, he is asking for a CPT's oppinion so I think it is safe to say he is not an ignorant, illiterate, ordinary trainer... And wtf is the purpose of this massive forum if not to ask questions?