OMG I need to talk to you guys about this. I am just discovering y'all and started Aesthetic yesterday. I am struggling with not doing cardio. Listening to this, I am dumbfounded. I am the over stressed bags under eyes person. Torn hamstring for a year. I hope you read this and can hop on a call with me. DESPERATE here!
I was always an athlete and was in the military so I've always liked working out everyday even ran several LA fitness clubs after I got out of the military about 15 years ago I got really sick and it took years to figure out what was happening. Ended up with 18 different auto immune diseases in about a 3 year period. Most likely from a anthrax series. Anyways the VA retired me had me on a bunch a meds and a low fat diet and told me just to go home and die. About 7 years ago I hurt so bad mentally and physically I became a shut in for about 5 years and at my worst I was over 320. I almost died about 2 and a half years ago. Muscles went soft over night chest pain gallbladder was inflamed daily migraines. Ended up in the hospital just to have them tell me I was about to have a massive heart attack and wanting to put me on more meds take my gallbladder and reduce my already shitty "healthy diet" even more. My wife had finally had enough and showed me Mikaela Peterson on Joe Rogan anyways I checked myself out of the hospital bought a slab of ribeyes and some high quality eggs. That lead me to Shawn baker then Paul salidino then Vince Gironda. Within a month or 2 almost all my symptoms were gone and I was down 40lbs. I figured I felt good enough to start e exercising again so I bought a bike learned how to mountain bike at 48 and it has become the true passion of my life. I lost most of my weight riding but kind of got stuck around 230 for about 9 months so I thought if I wanted to keep riding into my 60s or 70s I needed to pack on some muscle. The rest of the weight fell off right away but I'm having a hard time balancing my mountain biking and overtraining I love both and don't want to give up either. At 49 should I keep training either gym or bike and sometimes both everyday. I usually only truly take a rest day when I'm just smoked and need it. Would I be better off taking more days off or cutting my volume but still train everyday? I tried a 3 day full body spilt and I was miserable I missed my workouts. Keep in mind I feel as good as I did in my 20s I'm eating 3500 calories a day and still losing about a lb a week but I do have a few aches and pains here and there most likely from throwing myself off mountains then the lifting. Just wondering if lowering my volume and intensity and keeping my daily routine the same would be the right thing or forcing to take days off be better? Sorry if it's a jumbled up thing to read. The meds from the VA and their shitty diet destroyed my brain and I can be all over the place. Thank you!
For some of us! It feels good doing Cardio or HiTT fun while you're actually doing it.. not just after. Feels like Dancing. Her question is how to do Cardio with Muscle Building. My goal is to have a Female Track Sprinter (short distance). Therefore you need both Strength and some sort of cardio
@@jeanpauljeanpaul2530 This Bad Advice about HITT. You're basically some people don't enjoy Exercising at this level. Or Sprinters don't like running Sprints or Training/Racing or Dancers do not like Dancing at High Intensity for periods of time. Sorry you're wrong!
@@debbiecalderon5376 sorry, if your doing HITT correctly you don’t feel good afterwards, because you have taxed your nervous system. HITT is done at 90% or above of your max heart rate, anything below, is just cardio. Go sprint for 30 seconds up a hill with a 20 pound weighted vest and tell me how you feel.
@@jeanpauljeanpaul2530 I know what HITT is and To me and people who enjoy the rush we enjoy it. You can't tell me what feels good to me or to others. Suggest looking up David Goggins for some insight. Some of us like pushing to the limits (athletes too). That's why I do HITT only 2x - 3x a week so i don't over tax my body and I recover. No i do not like burpees, however there's so many forms of HITT to get to max 90% during a workout
Heard that the secret of Rich Froning for his super performance during CrossFit Games was running 2..3 times a week. That was his way to push up his endurance not only for the endurance events but also for weightlifting events. I found when I stopped my 20 min SSCardio after strength training I lost my ability to recover quickly between sets. Now I started again to add cardio. No way it works without cardio. And to be honest I walk a lot on my off days but this is not enough
I’ve had a similar experience. Started MAPS Performance and because the workouts are longer and more intense than my previous programs I cut out the 10min moderate cardio I did before and after workouts. By the time I hit phase 2 I didn’t have any work capacity and couldn’t handle that much volume with with weights that made sense based on previous experience. Adding that back in totally helped increase my recovery.
@@lukebbuff it’s so true, exactly what I have faced. 2 years ago I could do air squats in my rest phase e.g. when I had assistance work because my aerobic abilities where high. Meanwhile I have to rest 3…4 min even when I do rear delts on the butterfly machine or maybe some walking inbetween 😥 it’s ridiculous. This channel is great but it’s mainly focused on classic bodybuilding/body shaping - to little performance based perspective.
I dont know if just is not having the knowledge . But cardio has more complexity and is crucial for health. How to mix the cardio , how to periodiza the work with the energy systems to be strong ,muscular ,fast but with good cardio aerobic or anaeróbic. All cardio is not the same etc
If I work 3-4 times a week at a relatively active job where I move and lift boxes- would that constitute adequate cardio? In terms of goals I am looking to put on lean muscle and I run a push/pull/legs for 6 days. As for nutrition I am eating a little above matinence.
I feel like since u work for a long set of hours then that pretty much counts as cardio considering your planning to workout a whole 6 days. Maybe just take one day out of the week to get some cardio in.
I agree with the comment above ^^ if you don’t see yourself losing weight then u can lower calories a bit or incorporate more cardio but it sounds like you are pretty active
@@pequenapepino935 oh yeah then that’s good. As long as ur moving a lot throughout the week ur healthier than majority of people, activity is king for longevity
I’m about to finish MAPS ANABOLIC, love the results BUT I Bulk a little too hard, need a Cut, if I start MAPS PERFORMANCE… will I loose my gains combining a CUT with performance training? It’s better to start another program? Greetings from México
I’m trying so hard as a beginner to weight training to build muscle and burn fat and there’s so much information out there that it gets overwhelming. Do you have any free resources for someone who doesn’t have $100 bucks to put out for your Maps program
Here’s what didn’t work for me: 1. HIIT: even in my mid-thirties back then, it was very taxing on my joints, and because the HI part wasn’t as H as an athlete’s H, the benefits reaped were not worth the physical taxation. In addition, lifting strength reduced to the extreme nature and therefore very long recovery needed due to the HIIT sessions 2. Full body workouts. Although you guys love it, 3 days a week just doesn’t cut it for me. I like being in the gym at least 5 times a week and couldn’t bear staying out of the gym long enough to recover properly. Doing cardio or stretching days in between wasn’t worth the ritual of driving to the gym on the between days. In addition, I think at my age 42, I simply need more volume per muscle group than a newbie half my age. 3. Working out without a plan. Just showing up, throwing weights around, or substituting exercises just because someone else is using the bench or rack or whatever was very inefficient because there was no baseline to beat. I print my workout plans and I write every damn set down. I stick to it 6-8 weeks, 10 weeks max and then reassess and draft up a new plan. 4. Bulking in the classic sense. Just makes me fat, and the fatter I get on a bulk, the longer (and less enjoyable) the cut. So I aim to increase overall progress regardless of whether I’m trying to put on lean mass or lose fat. The training stays hard, the diet is fine tuned. I always include cardio, typically LIT right after weight lifting (15 minutes on a bulk, 2-3 times a week, and up to thirty minutes maximum while on a cut after each lifting session except for leg day). I find the cardio helps with nutrient management, insulin sensitivity and mental focus. The intensity is probably not high enough to do much in the way of cardiovascular health, but I box once a week and that shit gets your heart bursting out of its cage! What works: 1. Not burning all my cards at the same time. If I want to start a cut I don’t use all the tools in my toolbox all at once. First I assess the workout. One week into it I begin watching what I eat. A week later I add the cardio sessions of 15 minutes. Two or three weeks later I up the time. Then I cut another 100 to 150 calories. Then I add a boxing session one of my two rest days per week. Then I add a fasted cardio session in the morning. For peak week, I go all in and cut out the starches completely, while not counting protein calories (4 days). Then I stop the cardio, reintroduce the carbs steadily and train only weights the last 3 days. At that point I’m ready for the beach and am not starved so I don’t binge when on vacation. What I wish I could try: MAPS anabolic 😅
My body basically became addicted to the cortisol and running on complete adrenaline. It’s really not good 😬 but trying to train my mind out of that is really taxing mentally.
@@jem154 I’m now a full year into hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery to recover my hormones and menstrual cycle. Had to take 4months off all training from January to April 2022 and gained about 20lbs. Extra weight is still there but back to lifting, absolutely no running still. It’s still complete hell basically.
OMG I need to talk to you guys about this. I am just discovering y'all and started Aesthetic yesterday. I am struggling with not doing cardio. Listening to this, I am dumbfounded. I am the over stressed bags under eyes person. Torn hamstring for a year. I hope you read this and can hop on a call with me. DESPERATE here!
I was always an athlete and was in the military so I've always liked working out everyday even ran several LA fitness clubs after I got out of the military about 15 years ago I got really sick and it took years to figure out what was happening. Ended up with 18 different auto immune diseases in about a 3 year period. Most likely from a anthrax series. Anyways the VA retired me had me on a bunch a meds and a low fat diet and told me just to go home and die. About 7 years ago I hurt so bad mentally and physically I became a shut in for about 5 years and at my worst I was over 320. I almost died about 2 and a half years ago. Muscles went soft over night chest pain gallbladder was inflamed daily migraines. Ended up in the hospital just to have them tell me I was about to have a massive heart attack and wanting to put me on more meds take my gallbladder and reduce my already shitty "healthy diet" even more. My wife had finally had enough and showed me Mikaela Peterson on Joe Rogan anyways I checked myself out of the hospital bought a slab of ribeyes and some high quality eggs. That lead me to Shawn baker then Paul salidino then Vince Gironda. Within a month or 2 almost all my symptoms were gone and I was down 40lbs. I figured I felt good enough to start e exercising again so I bought a bike learned how to mountain bike at 48 and it has become the true passion of my life. I lost most of my weight riding but kind of got stuck around 230 for about 9 months so I thought if I wanted to keep riding into my 60s or 70s I needed to pack on some muscle. The rest of the weight fell off right away but I'm having a hard time balancing my mountain biking and overtraining I love both and don't want to give up either. At 49 should I keep training either gym or bike and sometimes both everyday. I usually only truly take a rest day when I'm just smoked and need it. Would I be better off taking more days off or cutting my volume but still train everyday? I tried a 3 day full body spilt and I was miserable I missed my workouts. Keep in mind I feel as good as I did in my 20s I'm eating 3500 calories a day and still losing about a lb a week but I do have a few aches and pains here and there most likely from throwing myself off mountains then the lifting. Just wondering if lowering my volume and intensity and keeping my daily routine the same would be the right thing or forcing to take days off be better? Sorry if it's a jumbled up thing to read. The meds from the VA and their shitty diet destroyed my brain and I can be all over the place. Thank you!
Just my two cents, but since you like training consistently, why not reduce some of the volume?
Congratulations on your transformation!!
@@Fintimefin I do the best I can on that lol
Hate the va
For some of us! It feels good doing Cardio or HiTT fun while you're actually doing it.. not just after. Feels like Dancing. Her question is how to do Cardio with Muscle Building. My goal is to have a Female Track Sprinter (short distance). Therefore you need both Strength and some sort of cardio
If you feel good from HIIT, then your probably not doing it correctly.
@@jeanpauljeanpaul2530 This Bad Advice about HITT. You're basically some people don't enjoy Exercising at this level. Or Sprinters don't like running Sprints or Training/Racing or Dancers do not like Dancing at High Intensity for periods of time. Sorry you're wrong!
@@debbiecalderon5376 sorry, if your doing HITT correctly you don’t feel good afterwards, because you have taxed your nervous system. HITT is done at 90% or above of your max heart rate, anything below, is just cardio. Go sprint for 30 seconds up a hill with a 20 pound weighted vest and tell me how you feel.
@@jeanpauljeanpaul2530 I know what HITT is and To me and people who enjoy the rush we enjoy it. You can't tell me what feels good to me or to others. Suggest looking up David Goggins for some insight. Some of us like pushing to the limits (athletes too). That's why I do HITT only 2x - 3x a week so i don't over tax my body and I recover. No i do not like burpees, however there's so many forms of HITT to get to max 90% during a workout
Omg… I’m a workout addict 😩😩😩. Thanks for the amazing info guys. I’m learning a lot.
She said she doesn't want to repeat the challenge, not that she doesn't want to do a burpee ever again
I felt like they wasn’t listening to her and just focused on the fact she enjoys burpees.
Heard that the secret of Rich Froning for his super performance during CrossFit Games was running 2..3 times a week. That was his way to push up his endurance not only for the endurance events but also for weightlifting events. I found when I stopped my 20 min SSCardio after strength training I lost my ability to recover quickly between sets. Now I started again to add cardio. No way it works without cardio. And to be honest I walk a lot on my off days but this is not enough
I’ve had a similar experience. Started MAPS Performance and because the workouts are longer and more intense than my previous programs I cut out the 10min moderate cardio I did before and after workouts.
By the time I hit phase 2 I didn’t have any work capacity and couldn’t handle that much volume with with weights that made sense based on previous experience. Adding that back in totally helped increase my recovery.
@@lukebbuff it’s so true, exactly what I have faced. 2 years ago I could do air squats in my rest phase e.g. when I had assistance work because my aerobic abilities where high. Meanwhile I have to rest 3…4 min even when I do rear delts on the butterfly machine or maybe some walking inbetween 😥 it’s ridiculous. This channel is great but it’s mainly focused on classic bodybuilding/body shaping - to little performance based perspective.
Yeah, steady state cardio has become a dirty word, even though it should form the foundation of all training
I’d like to add zone 2 and 5 to my HIT strength training. 61, and want to build muscle, lose weight, and increase longevity.
I dont know if just is not having the knowledge . But cardio has more complexity and is crucial for health.
How to mix the cardio , how to periodiza the work with the energy systems to be strong ,muscular ,fast but with good cardio aerobic or anaeróbic. All cardio is not the same etc
Adam killed this shit.🔥
Some of us are aware of it! This is so great
If I work 3-4 times a week at a relatively active job where I move and lift boxes- would that constitute adequate cardio? In terms of goals I am looking to put on lean muscle and I run a push/pull/legs for 6 days. As for nutrition I am eating a little above matinence.
I feel like since u work for a long set of hours then that pretty much counts as cardio considering your planning to workout a whole 6 days. Maybe just take one day out of the week to get some cardio in.
I agree with the comment above ^^ if you don’t see yourself losing weight then u can lower calories a bit or incorporate more cardio but it sounds like you are pretty active
@@tinocabral4201 yea no im fine with my physique for the most part just talking more in terms of cardiovascular activity but thanks bro
@@pequenapepino935 oh yeah then that’s good. As long as ur moving a lot throughout the week ur healthier than majority of people, activity is king for longevity
Needed to hear alllllllll of diz today! Is there a recovery group for us cardio 🐰 👸 s
Soooo… what’s an appropriate amount of cardio?
30 mins on the stair climber after your workout
No cardio just walk
As much as you can do without impairing recovery
LETS GO 🔥🔥🔥
How can I call in? This is info is great!
I’m about to finish MAPS ANABOLIC, love the results BUT I Bulk a little too hard, need a Cut, if I start MAPS PERFORMANCE… will I loose my gains combining a CUT with performance training? It’s better to start another program? Greetings from México
🤣🤣 Sal is hell
lets go🔥🔥🔥.When u guys upload it makes my mornings worth it.
I’m trying so hard as a beginner to weight training to build muscle and burn fat and there’s so much information out there that it gets overwhelming. Do you have any free resources for someone who doesn’t have $100 bucks to put out for your Maps program
TH-cam is the best resource. They also post alot of info on everything workout related.
Here’s what didn’t work for me:
1. HIIT: even in my mid-thirties back then, it was very taxing on my joints, and because the HI part wasn’t as H as an athlete’s H, the benefits reaped were not worth the physical taxation. In addition, lifting strength reduced to the extreme nature and therefore very long recovery needed due to the HIIT sessions
2. Full body workouts. Although you guys love it, 3 days a week just doesn’t cut it for me. I like being in the gym at least 5 times a week and couldn’t bear staying out of the gym long enough to recover properly. Doing cardio or stretching days in between wasn’t worth the ritual of driving to the gym on the between days. In addition, I think at my age 42, I simply need more volume per muscle group than a newbie half my age.
3. Working out without a plan. Just showing up, throwing weights around, or substituting exercises just because someone else is using the bench or rack or whatever was very inefficient because there was no baseline to beat. I print my workout plans and I write every damn set down. I stick to it 6-8 weeks, 10 weeks max and then reassess and draft up a new plan.
4. Bulking in the classic sense. Just makes me fat, and the fatter I get on a bulk, the longer (and less enjoyable) the cut. So I aim to increase overall progress regardless of whether I’m trying to put on lean mass or lose fat. The training stays hard, the diet is fine tuned. I always include cardio, typically LIT right after weight lifting (15 minutes on a bulk, 2-3 times a week, and up to thirty minutes maximum while on a cut after each lifting session except for leg day). I find the cardio helps with nutrient management, insulin sensitivity and mental focus. The intensity is probably not high enough to do much in the way of cardiovascular health, but I box once a week and that shit gets your heart bursting out of its cage!
What works:
1. Not burning all my cards at the same time. If I want to start a cut I don’t use all the tools in my toolbox all at once. First I assess the workout. One week into it I begin watching what I eat. A week later I add the cardio sessions of 15 minutes. Two or three weeks later I up the time. Then I cut another 100 to 150 calories. Then I add a boxing session one of my two rest days per week. Then I add a fasted cardio session in the morning. For peak week, I go all in and cut out the starches completely, while not counting protein calories (4 days). Then I stop the cardio, reintroduce the carbs steadily and train only weights the last 3 days. At that point I’m ready for the beach and am not starved so I don’t binge when on vacation.
What I wish I could try:
MAPS anabolic 😅
they are roasting her geez haha
My body basically became addicted to the cortisol and running on complete adrenaline. It’s really not good 😬 but trying to train my mind out of that is really taxing mentally.
How are you doing now. This is my major struggle and a cycle I've been repeating the last few years, peak then....crash and burn.
@@jem154 I’m now a full year into hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery to recover my hormones and menstrual cycle. Had to take 4months off all training from January to April 2022 and gained about 20lbs. Extra weight is still there but back to lifting, absolutely no running still. It’s still complete hell basically.
Something on how you deal with this be good
I’ve never met anyone who loves burpees. 🤣
So… how to incorporate cardio then? 😂
right 😂
Sure I'm not the first to comment this... but is that a "Rad" poster? haha