Cardio?? How Much Is Consider Too Much???

[jrjt27]

hello everyone,

Im trying to build muscle and I took up boxing lessons , my problem is i want to build muscle and drop fat and i also want to build endurence and get my heart in shape , how much cardio would you recomend for someone that is trying to achieve these goals , could you help me with a sample routine and guide lines?

-jr

[jrjt27]

Originally Posted by jrjt27

hello everyone,

Im trying to build muscle and I took up boxing lessons , my problem is i want to build muscle and drop fat and i also want to build endurence and get my heart in shape , how much cardio would you recomend for someone that is trying to achieve these goals , could you help me with a sample routine and guide lines?

-jr

anyone

[2bbig]

I am presently doing the same thing, Eat and keep lifting heavy, I found that as long as I hit my Squats, Deads and keep up my benching things have been going good.

[Khryz]

Originally Posted by jrjt27

hello everyone,

Im trying to build muscle and I took up boxing lessons , my problem is i want to build muscle and drop fat and i also want to build endurence and get my heart in shape , how much cardio would you recomend for someone that is trying to achieve these goals , could you help me with a sample routine and guide lines?

-jr

Unfortunately nobody can answer you with any degree of certainty because you didn't tell us your stats (height, weight, BF%), nor your maintenance level of calories, how much calories you are eating, etc. Many many variables into play.

If you're trying to build muscle, lose fat, and build endurance - that's gonna take one hell of a strict and perfectly dialed in diet and training program for it to work. For most people, they aren't able to do this correctly until they've gotten a lot of experience with training, dieting, and how their body responds to different training, cardio, foods, etc.

All I'm going to say is that eat at roughly maintenance (find it out by eating a certain amount for a week, usually your BW x 15, and if you didn't gain or lose weight, that's your maintenance level). Make sure you are lifting and doing your cardio, etc that you plan on doing for your actual training weeks. Eat at your maintenance, do some cardio, 2-4 times a week, stay active, and commit to a strength training program revolving around progressive overload (increasing weights each week) and compound lifts. And get plenty of sleep. If you do it right, you might be able to utilize your fat cells for energy for your weight training to be used towards muscle growth. This is a lot more common in beginners than intermediate/advanced lifters.

So these are some very basic guidelines. You might not be able to lose fat and build muscle at the same time so if not, it's no big deal - join the rest of majority of us lifters and do once at a time. Stay lean while putting on muscle slowly (clean bulking), or maintain muscle/strength while dropping fat slowly.

[jrjt27]

Originally Posted by Khryz

Unfortunately nobody can answer you with any degree of certainty because you didn't tell us your stats (height, weight, BF%), nor your maintenance level of calories, how much calories you are eating, etc. Many many variables into play.

If you're trying to build muscle, lose fat, and build endurance - that's gonna take one hell of a strict and perfectly dialed in diet and training program for it to work. For most people, they aren't able to do this correctly until they've gotten a lot of experience with training, dieting, and how their body responds to different training, cardio, foods, etc.

All I'm going to say is that eat at roughly maintenance (find it out by eating a certain amount for a week, usually your BW x 15, and if you didn't gain or lose weight, that's your maintenance level). Make sure you are lifting and doing your cardio, etc that you plan on doing for your actual training weeks. Eat at your maintenance, do some cardio, 2-4 times a week, stay active, and commit to a strength training program revolving around progressive overload (increasing weights each week) and compound lifts. And get plenty of sleep. If you do it right, you might be able to utilize your fat cells for energy for your weight training to be used towards muscle growth. This is a lot more common in beginners than intermediate/advanced lifters.

So these are some very basic guidelines. You might not be able to lose fat and build muscle at the same time so if not, it's no big deal - join the rest of majority of us lifters and do once at a time. Stay lean while putting on muscle slowly (clean bulking), or maintain muscle/strength while dropping fat slowly.

i would like to bulk while staying lean , i say i eat about 3000 calories a day and am doing cardio everyday for 30 mins at least ( jogging , jumprope , speed walking on a incline ) on workout days its done after my workout , i think im doing to much cardio but i am not sure if i am since i need to develope endurance for boxing and get my heart healthy , i just switch from a 5 day split to a upper/lower body split which i train 4 times a week now (2 upper / 2 lower) i wanna stay lean and get bigger ( guess u call it a clean bulk ) and i want my endurance for boxing. also with your opinion what kind of supplements would you recomendfor someone like me in my situation

-jr