Cardio 101
Profound Fitness
English - March 29, 2020 18:00 - 54 minutes - 126 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFitness Health & Fitness Nutrition fitness nutrition gym weight training exercise health coaching strength and conditioning health and wellbeing weight loss crossfit Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The basics of the body's energy systems and the role that cardio training plays for everyday health, plus how and when to include it into your gym training.
We start with an explanation of what we are really training when we train cardio and this means a basic understanding of the energy systems of the body.
Byron covers the creatine phosphate energy system, lactate energy system (glycolytic) and the aerobic energy system.
We issue a cautionary for excessive cardio when it comes to very long distance bouts of it and how this may go against muscle building and repair processes.
We further detail effective ways to lose fat in a healthy lifestyle and help you understand the balance that cardio and strength training would ideally have.
We go onto discuss how many detrained people may not initially need cardio more than strength training.
We discuss when to include it and how to grade it in to be as efficient as possible in a training programme for a busy person.
We explain when cardio might be needed right away when beginning exercise in weight loss cases.
We cover our preferred approaches to doing cardio that include when to use moderate steady state and when to use interval type training.
Mike also talks in detail about using cardio training for athletes who need to enhance performance with it.
In summary, most people have done or continue to do excessive cardio in their weekly activity and although having a level of aerobic fitness is warranted they may be missing out on the benefits that only resistance training can bring.
Cardio does definitely have its place in any long term programme, but generally in our experience most people would benefit from building and maintaining basic strength levels as a primary, with cardio as adjunct training.
The exception being athletes whom we will most likely cover more on in later podcasts.
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