best cardo to rip legs

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  • Pickles175
    Pickles175 Posts: 211 Member
    Kettlebell lunges and squats have worked wonders for me. I normally do strength training 3 days a week and cardio twice.
  • JenMaselli
    JenMaselli Posts: 83 Member
    erickirb wrote: »
    JenMaselli wrote: »
    Camo_xxx wrote: »
    blondeinnj wrote: »
    Well definedi muscles

    Lower your body fat% and you will see the definition in your muscles.

    you can do strength training and add all the muscle you want but as long as they are covered in body fat you will not see definition.

    Do you recommend staggered calorie intake for this? I want to lose 10 lbs that is basically a layer of fat, I'd like to get some of it off to reveal the muscles that I believe are under there. :) I'm at 1450 now but thinking about going down to 1250. Just wondering how many I should eat on the higher days and how many on the lower days and how many days of each. Going to add in some HIIT as well.

    I would suggest a goal of losing 0.5lbs/week, of if you do TDEE, TDEE - 10-15%. You can stagger cals or not, just watch your weekly goal, and make sure on low days you don't go to low to affect your training.

    I'm already doing this but I'm plateaued and I want to lose a few more pounds and I'd like to lower my BF percentage. The calorie intake that MFP has me at for .5 per week actually seems to be closer to maintenance calories for me. I'm going to drop down a couple hundred calories per day but wanting to cut some BF with my strength training.
  • newport3158
    newport3158 Posts: 75 Member
    Put the treadmill to the highest incline and walk at a decent speed for as long as you can, then bring the incline down and walk a little faster, then do an interval of jog/running. I like this too: http://www.heandsheeatclean.com/2012/06/she-sweats-sunday-shred-elliptical-hiit.html?m=0
    On the elliptical for speed I just tried to keep a 1 in front of the number in the speed column for the rotations per minutes I think.
  • dannatona
    dannatona Posts: 101 Member
    Spin class (along with eating better and lifting about 3 times a week) has completely changed the look of my legs! They're getting way more toned than they ever were when I was just doing the elliptical as my cardio
  • blondeinnj
    blondeinnj Posts: 3,215 Member
    Sounds good!

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