Help Please! What mix cardio:weights to lose weight?!
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Light weights every other day. Heavy weights cause you to bulk up and muscle weighs more. Do 10-15 minutes of cardio prior to weight training. On days you don't weight train, do cardio only.Although muscle weigh more, working out with weights give your body a better appearance. I recently learned to stay away from the scale and go on how you feel about your body.
Heavy weights do not cause you to bulk up. Calorie surplus does. This is just nonsense based on age old myth that has been debunked long ago and you should ignore it.
+1. You won't get bulky by accident. It takes lots of dedication and the proper plan to actually gain new muscle. Fat makes you bulky, not muscle. OP: Aim for at least 3 lifting sessions a week, compound lifts using challenging weights that still allow you to keep good form and keep progressing on that, 2-3 cardio sessions. Adding the lifting in may slow the scale down but you will lose fat like crazy and that is what matters most.0 -
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It's getting close. This could end my productive Friday.0 -
I've done it several ways.
-Circuit training (which is weights and cardio mixed together, so pretty much together)
-Cardio then weights
-Weights then cardio (I didn't like this, didn't have energy for a good cardio after the weights)
-Only cardio
-Only weights (well … 5-10 min cardio warmup, and some cardio on rest days from the lifting)
My opinion/experience is :
1- Doing something is better than doing nothing. If you're exercising, you're doing something right, so don't freak out if you don't have the "perfect" workout
2- If you don't love it, you won't stick with it. If you hate running, don't run. Find something else. (Same for most exercises)
3- I like the way I look more when I include some weights, at least. Either alternating days, or doing cardio then weights. Or, what I'm doing right now, which is my "only weights" option … that may be misleading, because I lift 4 days (and I lift heavy and hard), run 1 day, and do some light walking/dancing/etc the other days, so there is a bit of cardio, but my focus is really mostly the lifting.
To lose weight, simply eat at a calorie deficit. To lose weight and preserve muscle (thus lowering BF% more), eat at a deficit and workout, preferably including resistance training. I "could" try to get down to 105 lbs or something (I'm 5' tall), but I'd rather be 120-125, 20% body fat, and able to bench my own weight or more, not to mention be independent and not wait for my husband to move the furniture (or, when we moved, wring my hands because it was just my husband and me carrying the heavy stuff) :laugh:
It all depends on your goals.
To be perfectly honest I saw the best results when following circuit training based regimens as well, not separating lifting and cardio into separate concepts. I think that has more to do though with the fact that I found circuit training workouts more fun, and anything you can more easily get into and enjoy will benefit you more.0 -
This thread is a train wreck...
It's getting close. This could end my productive Friday.
Fridays are not meant to be productive. People are only at work in body, not in spirit.0 -
pst...methinks one of the posters is trying to play us...perhaps ignore it.
look at his profile, just think it's a waste of time arguing with someone determined to say things to incite.0 -
1) glutamine will not preserve LBM
2) people who lift can and do have a low BF%
1) Yes it does, that's a medical fact and I've had three months in hospital care following severe trauma to prove it. Plus there's a ton of published research on the subject
2) Sometimes, not always
1) Please cite sources.
2) And yes - just as some people who do cardio sometimes have a low BF% and others do not.0 -
Seriously....weight training "bulk you up"? When you say lose "weight", you mean fat right?
Excess calories "bulk" people up, not lifting.
edit : meant weight training...not muscles0 -
Neither:
Calorie deficit to lose weight.
Strength Training to preserve Lean Body Mass (Bone density, muscle tissue, etc) and make you stronger
Cardio for Heart Health, Muscular Endurance.
Others have quoted this post, but I've just got to again. It's so concise and so true.
The only thing I'd add is to push yourself to achieve new levels of performance--more cardio minutes, greater elliptical resistance, more weight, etc. My fat loss really accelerated after I started doing high intensity interval training (HIIT) during cardio. And you can start easy with that and ratchet that up over time also (increase the time in high intensity intervals and decrease the time in lower intensity intervals).0 -
There is a difference between losing weight and losing fat. If you’re doing a bunch of cardio and not much strength training, you will see the number on the scale drop pretty quickly, but the majority of it will not be from fat loss. You should focus more on strength training and keeping your calorie intake where it needs to be to create the deficit you are targeting. The strength training will keep the weight loss from targeting muscle instead of fat. I would use the cardio more so to allow yourself to eat more if you want and still keep your deficit where it needs to be. You may not see the number go down on the scale as quickly, but you will see better results in the mirror.0
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There is a difference between losing weight and losing fat. If you’re doing a bunch of cardio and not much strength training, you will see the number on the scale drop pretty quickly, but the majority of it will not be from fat loss. You should focus more on strength training and keeping your calorie intake where it needs to be to create the deficit you are targeting. The strength training will keep the weight loss from targeting muscle instead of fat. I would use the cardio to more so to allow yourself to eat more if you want and still keep your deficit where it needs to be. You may not see the number go down on the scale as quickly, but you will see better results in the mirror.
boom.
look better nekkid.
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1) Please cite sources.
lol - Google is your friend! Sorry for the brush off and no malice intended, I'm already too undproductive this afternoon and I have one more report to do before I leave. If I've got my old bookmarked links at home I'll post them.
BTW, interestingly in America, hospitals can actually prescribe it after surgical procedures or major trauma because it reduces emaciation and atrophy. Here I had to pay for it myself
So much for the NHS. Anyway, if I still have the links, I'll post them later 0 -
JSF0
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The bottom line here is this:
Following a basic lifting regimen will NOT lead to you developing a body that even remotely resembles a professional bodybuilder or hardcore strength athlete. If that is something you "fear" you can put that fear to rest. Those people work way harder and for way longer than you ever will in the gym, following programs specialized to those goals. It promotes muscle GAIN when in a surplus, and when in a deficit, it preserves what muscle mass you already have so that it doesn't erode away along with the fat you're burning.
Cardio is not necessary for weight loss, fat loss, or body composition changes. However, due to the fact that it is not feasible to accurately gauge how many calories are burned during strength workouts, it often gives people the extra calorie "head room" they need to be able to safely eat more and still keep fat down. Furthermore, it is important for heart health and building endurance.
Weight loss in and of itself from diet.0 -
1) Please cite sources.
lol - Google is your friend! Sorry for the brush off and no malice intended, I'm already too undproductive this afternoon and I have one more report to do before I leave. If I've got my old bookmarked links at home I'll post them.
BTW, interestingly in America, hospitals can actually prescribe it after surgical procedures or major trauma because it reduces emaciation and atrophy. Here I had to pay for it myself So much for the NHS. Anyway, if I still have the links, I'll post them later
It's up to you to provide sources, not me. I would love to see them. That way I can stop lifting and just take some glutamine..
Glutamine has it's uses. Replacing lifting for LBM retention is not one of them.0 -
It's up to you to provide sources, not me. I would love to see them. That way I can stop lifting and just take some glutamine..
Glutamine has it's uses. Replacing lifting for LBM retention is not one of them.
BTW, I presume you don't mean stop lifting and do naught (sorry, being slow)? For me, injury recovery notwithstanding, the glutamine means I don't lose white muscle while just doing cardio rather than weights.
e.g. once a month I might go jump on a leg press and make sure I can still do ten reps of 200kg or some other strength test. As long as I'm capable, then I'm satisfied I'm maintaining the muscle mass despite the cardio..
Damn, I really must do some work....0 -
Weights will not make you bulk up, btw.
I will respectfully caveat this with the observation that heavy weights are likely to make one bulk up.
*SIGH* We are ladies.
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It's up to you to provide sources, not me. I would love to see them. That way I can stop lifting and just take some glutamine..
Glutamine has it's uses. Replacing lifting for LBM retention is not one of them.
BTW, I presume you don't mean stop lifting and do naught (sorry, being slow)? For me, injury recovery notwithstanding, the glutamine means I don't lose white muscle while just doing cardio rather than weights.
That is the bit I want sources for.
I assume you are saying that I can replace lifting with cardio and as long as I take glutamine it will be as effective at LBM retention.0 -
This thread is a train wreck...
It's getting close. This could end my productive Friday.
Fridays are not meant to be productive. People are only at work in body, not in spirit.
5% Friday's
Seriously. 5% Friday
and I'm just going to quote this because it says everything I wanted to sayThe bottom line here is this:
Following a basic lifting regimen will NOT lead to you developing a body that even remotely resembles a professional bodybuilder or hardcore strength athlete. If that is something you "fear" you can put that fear to rest. Those people work way harder and for way longer than you ever will in the gym, following programs specialized to those goals. It promotes muscle GAIN when in a surplus, and when in a deficit, it preserves what muscle mass you already have so that it doesn't erode away along with the fat you're burning.
Cardio is not necessary for weight loss, fat loss, or body composition changes. However, due to the fact that it is not feasible to accurately gauge how many calories are burned during strength workouts, it often gives people the extra calorie "head room" they need to be able to safely eat more and still keep fat down. Furthermore, it is important for heart health and building endurance.
Weight loss in and of itself from diet.
SERIOUSLY WEIGHT LIFTING WON"T CAUSE 'BULKING' ... head desk.0 -
Gotcha, will see what I have (really hoping I saved the links now...)
Be a damn shame if you only had my word for it since it's been wonderful for my own goals.0 -
Gotcha, will see what I have (really hoping I saved the links now...)
Be a damn shame if you only had my word for it since it's been wonderful for my own goals.
I prefer to refer to things like this:
Glutamine is one of the 20 naturally occurring amino acids in dietary protein, specifically it is a conditionally essential amino acid (being elevated to essential during periods of disease and muscle wasting typical of physical trauma). It is sold as an isolated amino acids as well as being found in high levels in dietary meats and eggs. It is found in very high levels in both whey and casein protein.
Glutamine is a very effective intestinal and immune system health compound, as these cells use glutamine as the preferred fuel source rather than glucose.
It is generally touted as a Muscle Builder, but has not been proven to enhance muscle building in healthy individuals; only those suffering from physical trauma such as burns or muscular wounds (knife wounds) or in disease states in which muscle wasting occurs, such as AIDS. In these individuals, however, glutamine is effective at building muscle and alleviating a decrease in muscle mass typical of the ailment.
http://examine.com/supplements/Glutamine/0
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