Do you NEED cardio?

Rae6503

Next topic for my presentation. I need articles stating if cardio is or is NOT required for weight loss, muscle preservation, or heart health....

infamousmk

Dang ... I'm not good at finding articles. What I can say is that the 'runners high' type feeling I get from cardio beats the sore muscles from lifting, in a purely mental capacity.

superflyrbi

Cardio is not necessary for weight loss (it is if you want to look good naked), it is not necessary for muscle preservation (protein and lifting will do that), it is necessary to a degree for heart health (the heart is a muscle and needs exercise) Low impact ie walking is good for the heart, but you don't have to get your HR to 180 in order to be healthy.


Oops, just caught that you need articles....sorry, never mind

Rae6503

Dang ... I'm not good at finding articles. What I can say is that the 'runners high' type feeling I get from cardio beats the sore muscles from lifting, in a purely mental capacity.

Really? I like the really spent, muscles shaking, I'm a bad *kitten* feeling post-lifting feeling of lifting. Cardio bores me, even Turbo Fire, which is the most fun/non-sport related cardio I've found doesn't give me any "high".

leanmachinedream

I'm such a glutton for punishment that I love that sore muscle feeling. I work to get it. Maybe that's not healthy.

CoderGal

I'll bite, because I'm procrastinating here also.

http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/12/05/eurheartj.ehr397.abstract
Summary of previous link: http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/01/25/cardio-may-damage-heart.aspx

Chronic exercise training protects aged cardiac muscle against hypoxia. -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC303747/

Reduction in Obesity and Related Comorbid Conditions after Diet-Induced Weight Loss or Exercise-Induced Weight Loss in Men - http://www.annals.org/content/133/2/92.1.short


Lower extremity muscle size and strength and aerobic capacity decrease with caloric restriction but not with exercise-induced weight loss - http://jap.physiology.org/content/102/2/634.short

Energy metabolism in reperfused heart muscle: Metabolic correlates to return of function - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735109785804964

Exercise-Induced Weight Loss Preferentially Reduces Abdominal Fat - http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2003/02000/Exercise_Induced_Weight_Loss_Preferentially.4.aspx

http://eurjhf.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/8/841.short