Cardio / strength classes

jesshanley12
jesshanley12 Posts: 29 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi, I am currently doing 25 minute home workouts 4 times a week in order to build muscle and slowly gain weight. At the moment I do 3 strength classes and 1 cardio... should I be doing more cardio?

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  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    If your goal is to gain weight and build muscle, cardio doesn't really serve that goal. It's good for other reasons, but not building muscle. You can do more of it if you want, but you'll need to eat more calories to make up for the calories burned from cardio.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    If I'm reading your post correctly then you are just doing 25 minutes of "cardio" a week.
    For general health and CV fitness you certainly don't want to be doing less as that's a tiny amount!

    It's unlikely to have much significant impact on your goal to gain muscle though.

    (Feedback - "workout" and "cardio" are incredibly vague terms with a huge range of meanings, the more information you give the more focussed the replies and advice can be.)
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  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    If you want to gain muscle mass, you need to be lifting progressively. Are you following a program?
  • jesshanley12
    jesshanley12 Posts: 29 Member
    At the moment I roughly do around 7000 steps a day depending on whether im at work or not. When Im not at work I am doing 4 workout videos a week from the app Fiit. I have been using a small 6kg weight when doing some of the exercises such as squating and lunges as this is heavy at the moment for me.

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