No cardio SMH

It depends on exactly what your goals are. But if your goals are to build muscle, there is some logic to avoiding cardio at least in the beginning while you get settled. Strength training is much better for muscle building than cardio is, and if you are doing both, depending on the schedule, you may overwork yourself. So it could be better to keep your top energy reserves for strength training to get the most out of it.

Also, cardio burns more calories than strength training, so if you are trying to bulk, you will need to eat even more calories if you incorporate cardio.

Cardio can certainly be part of a strength training and bulking program, but I understand why the program doesn't have it. If you are aligned with the goals of the program (trying to bulk and gain muscle), then I would follow it and see how it goes.

pez37 wrote: »

My goal is lose weight in a healthy way. The program is a Transform your body in 12wks program. Could lose up to 30-40 lbs and 15-20 % for size if followed right .

What has that goal got to do with no cardio? (Apart from no cardio being counter-productive to health...)

Sorry but that sounds dumb and gimmicky.

The words "up to" are classic weasel words and a red flag to think seriously if this is just marketing twaddle trying to make something simple more complex than it has to be.

My 2c - a bit hard to gain any significant amount of muscle and then lose significant amount of fat in 12 weeks. Like... pretty much close to impossible.

Most people spend up to a YEAR in a surplus gaining muscle before they spend 20-odd weeks losing all the fat from around the muscle they gained.

I mean, give it a go, and follow it like it tells you to follow it (so no cardio = no cardio), but yeah... dunno how effective it will actually be. You will lose weight though once you get into the caloric deficit part of it.

pez37 wrote: »

My goal is lose weight in a healthy way. The program is a Transform your body in 12wks program. Could lose up to 30-40 lbs and 15-20 % for size if followed right .

That does sound counterproductive then if that is your goal. The first phase seems better designed for someone who wants to gain weight. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me about how it would be part of a weight loss goal.