women who mainly lift weights

rAc_hEl
rAc_hEl Posts: 246 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Women especially but men are welcome as well. How much cardio do you do? Obviously your main objective is to weight lift. And how much weight have you lost
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  • Vivian_Michaels
    Vivian_Michaels Posts: 2
    i only do swimming, 1 hour daily which is sufficient to fulfill my cardio needs. i do it because other exercise feel boring sometimes but swimming is always fells good and cheerful.
  • thatbelinda
    thatbelinda Posts: 94 Member
    The only thing I do at the gym (except for classes now and then) is lift. I have a personal trainer twice a week and he runs me through it. My cardio is swimming and running outdoors. I've lost 10.5kgs (1.5kgs to go!).
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
    I lift weights faster and walk a lot. I tried running but kept injuring myself. I've lost 15.6kg (around 35lb) since January and I'm still eating around 2000 calories a day.
  • Mutant13
    Mutant13 Posts: 2,485 Member
    I don't. I only lift.

    I live in the city so I walk a lot. That's about it.
  • Jacqson84
    Jacqson84 Posts: 189 Member
    45 min of lifting and 10-15min HIIT cardio afterwards. As much as I want to lose the weight, I'd like to develop a bit of muscle.
  • Tiamaria1010
    Tiamaria1010 Posts: 40 Member
    My body reacts nicely to resistance training--therefore it is a MUST!! But I also love cardio too and I try to get at least 15 minutes every day. Next week I will start lifting a little heavier to see how my body feels.
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    When I'm not too interested in losing weight, I'll only lift.

    Right now, I'm trying to drop about 5 lbs, so I do 20-25 mins of HIIT 4 days a week after about an hour of lifting.

    I'm a fan of Sara Soloman's jump rope interval circuit as my HIIT. That and barbell complexes with jump rope intervals.

    I'm not a fan of running, obviously.
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    I don't really...I go karate once a week and there's some element of cardio in that, especially the warm up
  • technobunny
    technobunny Posts: 131
    I may go for 1 hour 4mph walk once to twice a week. Nothing else, after Insanity I hate cardio! I just do 3 days of NRoL4W. Currently on Stage 1 WO 5-9.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    as little as possible??
    Cardio is lame- it's just seriously boring- and lame.
    I do dance- but it's not really 'cardio'

    I do steady state cardio when I am cutting- and then I do about 30-45 minutes and then I can't any more.
    Occasionally I run- but only because I want to- not because it's 'cardio'.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    I lift 5 days a week (upper body x3/lower body x2). On average I only do cardio once a week just to "stay in shape" so to speak.
  • just_Jennie1
    just_Jennie1 Posts: 1,233
    I run 4x a week and have on 'easy' cardio day on the Arc Trainer. It's only 30 min. before I lift.

    I have to do cardio otherwise I gain weight. Running keeps me lean and lifting gives me muscles. It's a good balance for me.

    Plus I truly love to run.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    I get an average of 8K steps/day of walking by parking at the end of lots and walking my dog around town a couple times/day. Other than that 12 minutes on the eliptical after I lift and walking to my car lol
  • FrankiesSaysRelax
    FrankiesSaysRelax Posts: 403 Member
    I do 2-3 HIIT workouts per week. Usually 20-30 minutes and on my off days. I follow the NROLFW plan and now the workouts are starting to call for interval training after lifting, so I could probably take more rest days.
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    total 102 - but im a few pounds up from that this week

    I do lift weights 4 days a week, with a cardio warm up and cardio-endurance lifting sets at the end of my priority routine.

    I walk 4mph for 80 minutes 5 days a week (about 5 miles) and on weekends I trend about 8 miles a day each, at about 3.5mph.

    I also aim for at least a run and a bike ride each week.

    So I do 4 days heavy lifting
    7 days extended period of low impact cardio
    1-2 high impact cardio workouts per week.

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    ^ at 260

    Then in january at 163 (below)

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    And NOW - at 163

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  • Annaruthus
    Annaruthus Posts: 301 Member
    I lift for an hour 4 days per week, do yoga 3-4 times per week (1 hour), swim 2-3 times per week (20-30 mintues), and other cardio 2-3 times per week (20-25 minutes). Obviously, I double up. Not too much cardio in there. The swimming works my muscle really well too, so it is somewhere in the middle in my opinion.
  • Escape_Artist
    Escape_Artist Posts: 1,155 Member
    I personally lift 3X a week, takes about 30 minutes.
    I go with my BF and he stays at the gym for about 45 mins so I do a 15ish minutes of HIIT.

    I used to not do Cardio at all, just started recently to kill time when he joined my gym

    I don't like Cardio so I try and stay away from it lol
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    Women especially but men are welcome as well. How much cardio do you do? Obviously your main objective is to weight lift. And how much weight have you lost

    On a consistent basis? I do five minute of jogging to warm up before I lift.


    Oh and I jog to the store once or twice a week.

    I'm down almost 23 pounds since the last week of April, which includes a 16 day diet break.
  • skeo
    skeo Posts: 471 Member
    As a warm up, I do 10 minutes at a moderate pace on the stationary bike or elliptical (bad knees so I avoid the tread)
    then after 30 minutes of lifting, in the middle of my work out; I do a quick circuit of 3 sets of 10 box jumps, farmer's carry with 2x45 plates for 50 feet, 10 jumping jacks, 5 decline push ups then rest for 10 minutes then back to the weights for another 20 minutes.
  • Lupercalia
    Lupercalia Posts: 1,857 Member
    I walk everywhere--I don't drive in the city I'm currently living in, and I avoid taking trains/taxis whenever humanly possible. I end up walking at least an hour each day, often times a bit more. I guess that's my "cardio". If I feel like doing something more intense when I get to the gym, I do...but that's very rare. I've lost all this weight with very minimal cardio...lots of heavy lifting and kettlebell work. Kettlebell work can definitely get metabolic, depending on what you're doing, so perhaps you'd consider that "cardio". Right now, I'm lifting 5 days per week, but when I started I was lifting 3 days.

    I've lost a little over 100 lbs. I don't use exercise for fat loss--I manipulate my diet for that. Exercise is for getting strong and holding on to as much muscle as possible during fat loss.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    I lift heavy things

    I walk up the stairs to my apartment, occasionally I run up them. That's it for cardio, although I'm waiting for cooler weather so I can do some walking (I live in Bahrain, i.e. almost tropical heat and high humidity)
  • FrnkLft
    FrnkLft Posts: 1,821 Member
    I don't do any cardio. My lifting sessions are about 60 min, resting 2 min between sets. Burn about 400 calories per session.

    So if you think about it, you're burning at a rate that, if you eat sedentary maintenance, will get you about 1 lb of loss per week in a low BF% person.

    Exercise only helps in that it can keep your metabolism up (by much less than you think though) and by burning some of the food you've eaten, so you can eat more and diet comfortably.

    How fast you loose has nothing to do with lifting v. cardio v. the couch. It's how much you eat in relation to how much you burn. This isn't a virtue or anything, it's a fact.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member
    I don't do any cardio. My lifting sessions are about 60 min, resting 2 min between sets. Burn about 400 calories per session.

    So if you think about it, you're burning at a rate that, if you eat sedentary maintenance, will get you about 1 lb of loss per week in a low BF% person.

    Exercise only helps in that it can keep your metabolism up (by much less than you think though) and by burning some of the food you've eaten, so you can eat more and diet comfortably.

    How fast you loose has nothing to do with lifting v. cardio v. the couch. It's how much you eat in relation to how much you burn. This isn't a virtue or anything, it's a fact.

    So you're a "Woman Who Mainly Lifts Weights?"
  • FrnkLft
    FrnkLft Posts: 1,821 Member
    I don't do any cardio. My lifting sessions are about 60 min, resting 2 min between sets. Burn about 400 calories per session.

    So if you think about it, you're burning at a rate that, if you eat sedentary maintenance, will get you about 1 lb of loss per week in a low BF% person.

    Exercise only helps in that it can keep your metabolism up (by much less than you think though) and by burning some of the food you've eaten, so you can eat more and diet comfortably.

    How fast you loose has nothing to do with lifting v. cardio v. the couch. It's how much you eat in relation to how much you burn. This isn't a virtue or anything, it's a fact.

    So you're a "Woman Who Mainly Lifts Weights?"

    Yes, dammnit I am... OP invited men to join in too. :drinker:

    and I beg you to find something in what I wrote that doesn't apply exactly the same to women.
  • Smallc10
    Smallc10 Posts: 615 Member
    I do 10 mins of cardio to warm up, sometimes a full run to warm up, and I train for my triathlon twice a week. I think I probably do only cardio twice a week as 'rest' days in between my weight lifting - swim one day, run one day. If I could weight lift every day I would, I just can't because I require days off to recuperate.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member


    Yes, dammnit I am... OP invited men to join in too. :drinker:

    GRRR-see I missed that! So much for my attempt at humor LOL
    and I beg you to find something in what I wrote that doesn't apply exactly the same to women.

    Why beg? I'm not looking for an argument...chill dude....
  • Taterpoof
    Taterpoof Posts: 416 Member
    I weight lift 5-6 days a week depending on muscle soreness and alternate different muscle groups. As for cardio I get about 5-6 hours of hockey in per week and I try to run stairs at least once a week.
  • FrnkLft
    FrnkLft Posts: 1,821 Member


    Yes, dammnit I am... OP invited men to join in too. :drinker:

    GRRR-see I missed that! So much for my attempt at humor LOL
    and I beg you to find something in what I wrote that doesn't apply exactly the same to women.

    Why beg? I'm not looking for an argument...chill dude....

    Chilled :smokin:
  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    I do so little cardio, and I'm trying to do more for endurance at least.

    My tendons/wonky body structure don't like the repetitive nature of cardio, and it's hard to find something that I can do often and long and not have things get inflamed. Even walking, I have a leg length discrepancy that causes imbalances. So far I like belly dance best to not aggravate much. That's cardio enough for me, lol.
  • Leadfoot_Lewis
    Leadfoot_Lewis Posts: 1,623 Member


    Chilled :smokin:

    Good!. ;)

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