Need some cardio advice

robs_ready

Guys,

Lots of appreciated posts from others on other threads, greatly appreciated.

I'm quite new to cardio, I've been weight training for over 2 years now. I'm in a position where I want to improve my cardiovascular health and lose the last few pounds. Currently I do a 6 mile cycle followed by a 2 miles on the cross trainer followed by 1 mile up hill jog, takes me around 35 minutes per day.

1. Is it Ok to perform these exercises 7 days a week?

2. Can you suggest anything more useful as a fat burning exercise?

Worth mentioning all these exercises performed on machinery.

Cheers

robertw486

roblloyd89 wrote: »

Guys,

Lots of appreciated posts from others on other threads, greatly appreciated.

I'm quite new to cardio, I've been weight training for over 2 years now. I'm in a position where I want to improve my cardiovascular health and lose the last few pounds. Currently I do a 6 mile cycle followed by a 2 miles on the cross trainer followed by 1 mile up hill jog, takes me around 35 minutes per day.

1. Is it Ok to perform these exercises 7 days a week?

2. Can you suggest anything more useful as a fat burning exercise?

Worth mentioning all these exercises performed on machinery.

Cheers

I'm a bit confused due to wording you used, but assume you mean that each exercise individually takes you about 35 minutes. If you are doing 3 miles on foot, and 6 miles cycling in 35 minutes and don't usually do any cardio, I'd suggest that you are either using very low resistance not in line with your body weight, or should be entering triathlon events even if you can barely float.

Assuming you are going to continue lifting, I'd avoid pushing too hard on cardio daily, as it will affect your nutritional needs for recovery by adding to the lifting needs. You can do it if you adjust overall output and diet accordingly, but might find that certain cardio exercises will tax specific muscles more than you think, and it will reflect in your lifting.

But overall, regardless of the type you choose to do, fitting max effort and calorie burn into your given time window will always be the best way to maximize calorie burn. This is usually easier on devices that use some type of meter to gauge workload. For some devices a combination of outputs might be needed. Or if the machine measures calories per minute, simply use that as a starting point. As your cardio endurance builds, add workload until you reach the point where you are outputting steady state at or near maximal effort for the time you have available.

If the devices have a heart rate monitor that can also be very useful. Find a heart rate where you can stay at that rate for the time you have. But keep in mind that it might vary from one piece of equipment to the next, as well as with the location of the machine, fans, etc.

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