Best cardio to drop the fat?

[tn94z]

TweetI just joined a gym and they have the stationary bike, treadmills, ellipticals (which we are buying for the house too), etc...what is the best cardio routine to add to my weighlifting that will drop the fat? I have read that running is not ideal.

[BABY1]

Tweet"Interval training" is supposed to be great for burning fat and you don't have to do it for long. Just about 15 to 20 minutes a session and I would only do it 3 times a week max, and not on lifting days. It isn't easy, but it does work!!

[BABY1]

TweetHere are some threads on it!

https://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/s...highlight=hiit
https://www.fitnessgeared.com/forum/s...highlight=hiit

Do a search for "hiit" and you will find many more on it.

[IronpumpedLady]

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I just joined a gym and they have the stationary bike, treadmills, ellipticals (which we are buying for the house too), etc...what is the best cardio routine to add to my weighlifting that will drop the fat? I have read that running is not ideal.

All depends really on you, how much you need to loose, what your trying to accomplish and what else you'll be doing as far as weight training is concerned.
What are your goals and so on?



Stay Strong~~!!!
IPL

[tn94z]

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All depends really on you, how much you need to loose, what your trying to accomplish and what else you'll be doing as far as weight training is concerned.
What are your goals and so on?



Stay Strong~~!!!
IPL

Well, I am 5'8" and weigh about 180lbs. My initial goal is to lean down and get rid of as much fat as possible. I would like to get down to 165lbs or even lower and then start adding some lean muscle. We work all of the muscle groups. We usually work one per night. Chest, arms, shoulders, back, legs. Like I said, the main goal is to get lean and lose as much fat as possible...preferably before next spring

[skinnyman]

Tweeti see you mention running is not ideal and it may not be. However running on the treadmill is the only cardio that really does the job for me. When trying to lean up, i will run ED for 30 minutes at 5.9-6.1 speed. Off season i will run the same however EOD.

The key here is consistency. In order to lose weight/lean up you need to speed your metabolism on a full time basis.

[tn94z]

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i see you mention running is not ideal and it may not be. However running on the treadmill is the only cardio that really does the job for me. When trying to lean up, i will run ED for 30 minutes at 5.9-6.1 speed. Off season i will run the same however EOD.

The key here is consistency. In order to lose weight/lean up you need to speed your metabolism on a full time basis.

I guess I was just always told that running a lot is not as good for losing weight and keeping muscle.

[Klash]

TweetRunning shaves the muscles right off of me. I either do the treadmill at the steepest incline and walk it or the stationary bike at a pretty good resistence.

[trip]

Tweetif you're not sweating, you're not burning fat, sweat sweat sweat, and yes you will burn muscle off also, but you get fat off

in the end though it's cals out, cals in

imho, track calories burned, and try too increase it over a few weeks

[peti2]

TweetI like the tredmill that has the short belt. I start off with a warm jog 5 mins. walk fast on an incline for 15mins and than run for anther 15mins at 6.0. walk fast again on an Incline for anther 10mins and finish off with a cool down. Best cardio for me.

[IronpumpedLady]

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if you're not sweating, you're not burning fat, sweat sweat sweat, and yes you will burn muscle off also, but you get fat off

in the end though it's cals out, cals in

imho, track calories burned, and try too increase it over a few weeks

NOT true~ LOL Sweat isn't a true indicator of hard hard your are working your body. Sweat simply means your body is working to cool itself, yes you do burn some cals., from the heat your body produces, but its minimal compared to the big picture. The most important gauges are your HR, and how your feeling during cardio. Your conditioning (just how fit you are) plays a big role in your cardio training efforts as well.
Again, we need to remember "NO 2 PEOPLE" respond the same to stresses we place on ourselves during training. Also remember the KEY to your success comes from your dietary efforts. This plays a major role in your success.
Keep in mind it is a little hard, but not impossible to Loose and gain. (fat and muscle that is) So remember muscle burns your BF for energy, so the more you have or gain the better and more efficent at burning fat your body will be. Also as your muscle increases, so should your protein comsumption, which some times we for get to adjust our diets accordingly.

I would put most of your energy's cycling your "training modes," this will keep your body guessing and keep you moving on your quest. We often for get you fall back on some basic training principles, of which we should really be focusing on if we have specific goals in mind. Periodization principles in our training will make a tremendous difference~!
Using Periodization Training Techniques~

If you want to improve your performances, strength, cardio endurance, and weight loss, you can't train the same way all the time If you did, your body would simply adapt to the training you were doing, your fitness would settle in at a fixed level, and you could train far into the next century without making one tittle of improvement. Hoping to perform better with an unchanging training programme is like expecting to become a maths wizard while working on only the simple equations encountered in first-year algebra.
Your body's tendency to merely maintain the status quo means that if you want to get better your workouts must progress to a higher level of difficulty. To progress, you could simply increase your intensity, volume, and/or frequency of training over time. As long as you weren't exceeding your body's ability to adapt, you would steadily get better. The trick would be to avoid exceeding your body's biomechanical and physiological limits; too much stress would actually begin to break your body down, rather than build it up.
This guileless pattern of gradually increasing the quantity of work you do, the speed of your workouts, and/or the frequency with which you train is the simplest way to alter your training over time in hopes of improving your performances. Such progression does produce performance gains, but by itself it can never help you reach your ultimate potential, because it ignores the fact that your training must also be goal-oriented. There are a number of specific things you need to accomplish in order to optimize performance, and these goals aren't always reached merely by fiddling with the 'work-load knob' on your training programme.

Now in posting all this I think it calls for me to write up a post on this~! LOL



Stay Strong~~!!!
IPL

[Strella]

TweetTo lose fat the fastest and maintain or build muscle then do HIIT training. That is pretty much all I ever do. Its hard but i love it. I do a lot of sprints and stadiums, plyos, jumps and bounding. You can do HIIT with anything. On a bike do 30 secs all out at a high resistance then drop it down and go at a medium pace for 1 min and repeat for 10-20 minutes. I say do it after you lift. 10-15 hard minutes after weight lifting will melt fat off assuming your diet is good. You can use the 30 sec hard 1 min slow technique for bike, elliptical, row machine, treadmill, swimming, really whatever, mix it up be creative. go to a track and sprint the straight aways and slowly jog the curves.

[tn94z]

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To lose fat the fastest and maintain or build muscle then do HIIT training. That is pretty much all I ever do. Its hard but i love it. I do a lot of sprints and stadiums, plyos, jumps and bounding. You can do HIIT with anything. On a bike do 30 secs all out at a high resistance then drop it down and go at a medium pace for 1 min and repeat for 10-20 minutes. I say do it after you lift. 10-15 hard minutes after weight lifting will melt fat off assuming your diet is good. You can use the 30 sec hard 1 min slow technique for bike, elliptical, row machine, treadmill, swimming, really whatever, mix it up be creative. go to a track and sprint the straight aways and slowly jog the curves.

I think that is what I will do. From what I have been reading here, that will be the best for me and weight loss. We have a football stadium pretty close where I can run the steps, etc...the equipment I can do at the gym. Cool man, thanks...

[Strella]

TweetLook on youtube, they have all kinds of training videos and Im sure they would have some interval training stuff on their.

No links to other boards please

[trip]

TweetIPL, understand and agree with your post, mine was just a simple way of saying most folks don't work hard enough at it