for the lifters who hate cardio..

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  • NWCountryGal
    NWCountryGal Posts: 1,992 Member
    I think I know a masochist that would be into this:noway:
    No way guys, 4 hours on the elliptical EVERY DAY is SO FUN!
  • apriltrainer
    apriltrainer Posts: 732 Member
    I actually had someone say while I was doing a deadlift..."You must run alot."

    This person meant it as a COMPLIMENT.

    WTF. Hell no. I don't run.

    Why can't a woman look sexy and strong without being stereotyped as a cardio maniac?

    I was deeply offended.

    And yes...I am sexy and strong.

    ;)
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    This is why we can't have nice things guys, there is chalk all over the place, someone stole my wrist wraps, and I don't want to walk to the water fountain to fill my bottle because I'm wearing my Olympic shoes and I'm paranoid I'll break them if I walk too far in them!
  • McBully4
    McBully4 Posts: 1,270 Member
    I actually had someone say while I was doing a deadlift..."You must run alot."



    I was deeply offended.

    I get way offended when people ask me about cardio exercise.
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    - What do you do for cardio

    I dunno Olympic lifts i guess....
  • LinaBo
    LinaBo Posts: 342 Member
    Yep. I like to say that I'd love cardio, if it only had one thing... more lifting!
  • thistimeismytime
    thistimeismytime Posts: 711 Member
    Yes, a balanced fitness program is clearly wrong. I like to just do a bunch of deadlifts and then never accelerate past a trudging gait the rest of the day. Works great. Stretching is bad too.
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    Yes, a balanced fitness program is clearly wrong.
    Depends on the goals really
    I like to just do a bunch of deadlifts and then never accelerate past a trudging gait the rest of the day.
    If your goal is to be a world class dead lifter then you are well on your way.
    Stretching is bad too.
    Dynamic Stretching before your work out, and Static after, but we all know that.
  • Plates559
    Plates559 Posts: 869 Member
    Yep. I like to say that I'd love cardio, if it only had one thing... more lifting!

    Check out Metabolic Conditioning, its aerobic exercise with anaerobic type lifts.
  • berryjk
    berryjk Posts: 120
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    Try a 260 pound sled pull up and down a parking lot on an incline - just once and I swear your heart will be flying out of your chest - at least mine was...
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    OMG! I feel like I'm having a damn heart attack every time!!
  • healthyKYgirl
    healthyKYgirl Posts: 272 Member

    Try a 260 pound sled pull up and down a parking lot on an incline - just once and I swear your heart will be flying out of your chest - at least mine was...
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    OMG! I feel like I'm having a damn heart attack every time!!
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    Oh, good! I am glad I am not the only one who feels like that. :flowerforyou:
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    It's like I found my long-lost cousins here.
  • NWCountryGal
    NWCountryGal Posts: 1,992 Member
    OHhhhhhhh, I approve of your avatar, hooya!! :laugh:
    I approve this message!
  • NWCountryGal
    NWCountryGal Posts: 1,992 Member
    I felt that way just doing pushups:noway:

    Try a 260 pound sled pull up and down a parking lot on an incline - just once and I swear your heart will be flying out of your chest - at least mine was...

    OMG! I feel like I'm having a damn heart attack every time!!
    [/quote]

    Oh, good! I am glad I am not the only one who feels like that. :flowerforyou:
    [/quote]
  • bradphil87
    bradphil87 Posts: 617 Member
    Thats awsome! Lol, I just decided to cut my cardio day for a rest day. I don't want a runners body.....I want a lifters body, so why would I run and not lift?
  • NWCountryGal
    NWCountryGal Posts: 1,992 Member
    Any of you aware that Dr. Kenneth Cooper who coined the word "aerobics" has long since stated he was wrong? Consider this: Dr. Kenneth Cooper (author of Aerobics, The New Aerobics, Aerobics for Women), the US. Air Force Cardiologist who coined the term "aerobics" (meaning a form of exercise) and has promoted their use for over 25 years now admits that he was wrong! According to Dr. Cooper, further research has shown that there is no correlation between aerobic endurance performance and health, longevity, or protection against heart-disease. He will admit, however, that such activities do carry with them a great risk of injury. Further, he admits that gross-overuse activities such as running may be so damaging to the body as to be considered carcinogenic.

    Check out this article: http://www.mikementzer.com/aerobic.html
  • harlanJEN
    harlanJEN Posts: 1,089 Member
    Does it just kill everybody else how for the average person women's fitness is like 30 years behind?

    5 pound pink dumbells with glitter on them...right? That's all we should use..
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    Oh hell to the no

    But! They r soooooo PURTY. Rofl
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Any of you aware that Dr. Kenneth Cooper who coined the word "aerobics" has long since stated he was wrong? Consider this: Dr. Kenneth Cooper (author of Aerobics, The New Aerobics, Aerobics for Women), the US. Air Force Cardiologist who coined the term "aerobics" (meaning a form of exercise) and has promoted their use for over 25 years now admits that he was wrong! According to Dr. Cooper, further research has shown that there is no correlation between aerobic endurance performance and health, longevity, or protection against heart-disease. He will admit, however, that such activities do carry with them a great risk of injury. Further, he admits that gross-overuse activities such as running may be so damaging to the body as to be considered carcinogenic.

    Check out this article: http://www.mikementzer.com/aerobic.html
    Well I don't know how much of that is true, but doing deads near/at my pr, a single lift leaves me panting for a minute and my heart thumping. Massive sudden oxygen demand and all that jazz.
  • deninevi
    deninevi Posts: 934 Member
    Cool card! I want one now!
  • BeautyFromPain
    BeautyFromPain Posts: 4,952 Member
    Any of you aware that Dr. Kenneth Cooper who coined the word "aerobics" has long since stated he was wrong? Consider this: Dr. Kenneth Cooper (author of Aerobics, The New Aerobics, Aerobics for Women), the US. Air Force Cardiologist who coined the term "aerobics" (meaning a form of exercise) and has promoted their use for over 25 years now admits that he was wrong! According to Dr. Cooper, further research has shown that there is no correlation between aerobic endurance performance and health, longevity, or protection against heart-disease. He will admit, however, that such activities do carry with them a great risk of injury. Further, he admits that gross-overuse activities such as running may be so damaging to the body as to be considered carcinogenic.

    Check out this article: http://www.mikementzer.com/aerobic.html
    Well I don't know how much of that is true, but doing deads near/at my pr, a single lift leaves me panting for a minute and my heart thumping. Massive sudden oxygen demand and all that jazz.

    Just because something raises your heart rate, doesn't necessarily make it cardio...
    Also- lifting weights above head height automatically highers your heart rate whilst doing the lift no matter the amount of exertion.
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Well I don't know how much of that is true, but doing deads near/at my pr, a single lift leaves me panting for a minute and my heart thumping. Massive sudden oxygen demand and all that jazz.

    Just because something raises your heart rate, doesn't necessarily make it cardio...
    Also- lifting weights above head height automatically highers your heart rate whilst doing the lift no matter the amount of exertion.
    Strongly disagree. Anything that puts your CV system under stress is cardiovascular exercise. Lifting isn't much different to HIIT, hence the similarility in muscular development in sprinters as to lifters. My heart and lungs work much harder lifting than they do when I'm swimming, for instance, and I was a swimmer and coach up until 21.
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