Nrolfw and cardio

mandilamadrid

Hi, I've been doing NROLFW and am at the end of stage 2. Up to now, I have been doing this program along with 30-45 mins of cardio 5 days a week. Lately though, my knees and the rest of my body seems to need more time to recover as the workouts are increasing in difficulty and interval training was added. I am thinking about adding another rest day and a day of LISS, so I would only be doing more demanding cardio 3 to 4 days a week along with NROLFW. I'm worried that this will cause weight gain or impede weight loss because my body is used to 250 to 300 minutes of cardio a week (I read that this was the recommendation for weight loss and it is hard to get that number out of my head haha) and I would be going down to 150-200.

jgnatca

I had to google NROLFW. New Rules of Lifting.

If you reduce your calories by a couple hundred a day that will offset the reduced cardio.

TavistockToad

mandilamadrid wrote: »

Hi, I've been doing NROLFW and am at the end of stage 2. Up to now, I have been doing this program along with 30-45 mins of cardio 5 days a week. Lately though, my knees and the rest of my body seems to need more time to recover as the workouts are increasing in difficulty and interval training was added. I am thinking about adding another rest day and a day of LISS, so I would only be doing more demanding cardio 3 to 4 days a week along with NROLFW. I'm worried that this will cause weight gain or impede weight loss because my body is used to 250 to 300 minutes of cardio a week (I read that this was the recommendation for weight loss and it is hard to get that number out of my head haha) and I would be going down to 150-200.

if you are using MFP as its set up you will still want to hit your calorie goal, as it only changes when you add exercise.

NorthCascades

It can be hard to lower your calories when your used to eating more, especially this time of year. But you need down time for recovery. Rest is when the actual getting stronger happens.

Can you add enough walking to your day to make up for the calories? Unless you go hide distances our wear a heavy pack, there's really no need for recovery from a walk.