Cardio And Fat Loss For A Bodybuilder?
January 15th, 2010 | 
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i know the most beneficial cardio workout is for 30 minutes
so i dont burn off any muscle mass
but would it decrease my muscle mass if i were to do a 30
minute low intensity cardio session then go work out then
1.5 hours later i come back and do another 30 minutes?
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I agree with Silverbullet. And I can understand where you got the thirty minutes from. But when someone says you have to do long hours of cardio and restricted calories, that’s true. But that is a half truth. Now what I mean by that is when you restrict your calories, you go into “dieters shock.” That is when you are not getting enough calories daily and your body turns into a “store-what-ever-I-can” mode.Put that with long, intense cardio, you are going to loose weight because you create a deficit.
The other half of truth is that doing long cardio puts your body into store fat mode also. This is because when you do cardio long enough, intensity over 30 minutes, you start to burn fat WHILE you train. This is telling your body to store more fat because it’s going need it for the next long term training event. You’ll loose body fat, but when you stop the long cardio and the restricted diet, you’re going to gain a lot more weight than you lost.
Think of our genetic make up. Humans where NOT deigned for long term cardio out put. We are designed for the “Flight or Fight”. This will retrain your body to burn fat AFTER the session, long after. Plus it will learn to stay thin because it can only “Flight or Flight” effectively when it’s lean.
“So, the quickest way for fast weight loss is to increase your heart rate for one minute, than lower the intensity for recovery period of about a minute. YOu goal is to increase your heart rate and lung capacity for one to two minutes and then recover your breath before you do it again. Do this for four or five times and it should take about twenty minutes to complete. This will activate fat burning ‘after’ you work out rather than during.”
Just like the cave man who was jogging after a rabbit with spear in had, comes across a Saber tooth tiger. Is heart races and he breathes deep as he exerts himself to get away. Then, once he’s away, and still being hungry, he jogs after the rabbit again until he is chased by that big bear looking thing, and he repeats then sequence…It makes sense, doesn’t it?
Cardio does not burn off muscle mass as long as you stay fueled, ie, don’t run through your glycogen reserves. Protein is insignificant as a fuel. I don’t know where you got the 30 minutes. It takes me 2 hours on a bike at near race pace to run out of glycogen.