EXHAUSTED after lifting!
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If you want to lift and not be exhausted then you need to pick a program and do it correctly; rest and all. If your bum is your focus then do strong curves or another program that allows for more accessory work.0
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Running around the weight room like a newbie lifter on crack, super setting the bejeezus out of everything and not eating enough isn't going to help your butt either.0
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dakotababy wrote: »I have never done weights for more than 2 weeks. I get too exhausted from it and stop and go straight back to cardio.
When you're supersetting EVERYTHING you're essentially adding cardio to your workout. Which....nothing wrong with that as I do it practically every day. But I don't wonder why I'm sweating bullets and exhausted after either.0 -
Don't get me wrong, I think that supersets are great and have their place. But if you are doing a program that has you adding weight the way SL does because you're a newb, I think you're working close enough to your maxes that you need the rests.
I do 531. Wendler suggests pullups, pushups, etc between sets. But he also suggests eating plenty and that program has you work at a lower % of your max most the time.0 -
???? Granted I'm not running SL5x5 anymore but my wife specifically said "hmmm, you actually have an *kitten* now that you're lifting" after running 2 12 week cycles. Before it was "you just have a crack running up your lower back"….0
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piperdown44 wrote: »???? Granted I'm not running SL5x5 anymore but my wife specifically said "hmmm, you actually have an *kitten* now that you're lifting" after running 2 12 week cycles. Before it was "you just have a crack running up your lower back"….
Yes, it'll certainly help with your rear but then OP has never lifted for more than 2 weeks at a time.0 -
You're also not going to see much butt improvement in just 2 weeks, if that's all the longer you've been at it.0
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dakotababy wrote: »I have never done weights for more than 2 weeks. I get too exhausted from it and stop and go straight back to cardio.
Lol. Well, know you know why.0 -
dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work0 -
dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work
Actually cardio releases endorphins so, yeah, it helps. Tennis players bounce around to get a little pump.0 -
dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work
Actually cardio releases endorphins so, yeah, it helps. Tennis players bounce around to get a little pump.
I can't even tell if you're trolling or not right now.0 -
dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work
Actually cardio releases endorphins so, yeah, it helps. Tennis players bounce around to get a little pump.
I can't even tell if you're trolling or not right now.
Some things aren't so black and white. I'm guessing you choose to do very little cardio. I lift weights and do cardio so I'm talking from experience. Why would you suggest that my response was trolling?0 -
Yeah, you're doing it wrong. Why don't you just run Strong Curves? Why the heck you gonna super set power lifts?0
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dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work
Actually cardio releases endorphins so, yeah, it helps. Tennis players bounce around to get a little pump.
I can't even tell if you're trolling or not right now.
Some things aren't so black and white. I'm guessing you choose to do very little cardio. I lift weights and do cardio so I'm talking from experience. Why would you suggest that my response was trolling?
I do lots of cardio. Lots and lots. So much that lifting is on hold right now.
And I thought the exact same thing as Dope.0 -
Maybe I am not being clear? In tennis there can be a lot of bursts of stop and go so it helps to keep a tempo to be ready or stay in a zone. I'm not saying sprint and go directly to super sets of heavy lifting. I'm referring to getting bursts of energy from cardio.3dogsrunning wrote: »dakotababy wrote: »Hell, even days when I just do the lifting with no cardio (as when I am lifting again, I try to drop my cardio before I drop the weights) I still get wiped. In fact, doing the cardio helps me some what keep my energy up for longer after a workout. If I didnt do cardio...I would likely only be able to pull off half of my lifts and then crash.
LOLNo. This....is not how the body's energy stores work
Actually cardio releases endorphins so, yeah, it helps. Tennis players bounce around to get a little pump.
I can't even tell if you're trolling or not right now.
Some things aren't so black and white. I'm guessing you choose to do very little cardio. I lift weights and do cardio so I'm talking from experience. Why would you suggest that my response was trolling?
I do lots of cardio. Lots and lots. So much that lifting is on hold right now.
And I thought the exact same thing as Dope.
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