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Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 18:04:26
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Kasei
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As the title said, I'm considering exchanging weight training sessions for cardio (My goal is weight loss, I'm currently at about 13'5 and looking to lose 19 pounds), at the moment my routine looks like this:
Monday
Resistance
Tuesday
Cardio (HIIT)
Wednesday
Resistance
Thursday
Cardio (HIIT)
Friday
Resistance
Saturday
Cardio (HIIT)
Sunday
Off Day
So, if I were to add extra cardio in exchange for my weight training days, would my fat loss goals be reached quicker? (I'm not too worried about bulking or losing a bit of muscle, I want to acheive a lower body fat percentage before I think about a bulk)
Also, if it helps, my eating routine looks something like this, I'll try to be as accurate as I can:
9:30 - Breakfast
One bowl of plain porridge oats (Sorry I don't normally measure, I'm purely guessing about 30g-40g?) with one cup of skimmed milk.
One multi vitamin
One flax seed oil tablet
12:00 - Lunch
One jacket potato
One can of tuna
1:00 - Workout (On HIIT days, I normally run in the mornings, about 7:00, I like the morning breeze  )
(I take a whey protein shake before/during/after workout sipping throughout)
2:00 - Meal 3
3 egg wholes omelette
Broccolli/Tomato
4:30 - Meal 4
6:30 - Meal 5 (Meal 4 and 5 I normally will have one lean chicken breast for each, or something to do with eggs/tuna/salmon and various other vegetables or fruit, sometimes also I might eat some sort of berries during the day)
Thanks in advance!
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 19:17:24
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i would keep at least one fullbody workout per wk to maintane your muscle,there are some studies that say using your 10rm and training once a wk should keep what you have,then you can do 5 days cardio if you feel like it.
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 19:24:34
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i would keep at least one fullbody workout per wk to maintane your muscle,there are some studies that say using your 10rm and training once a wk should keep what you have,then you can do 5 days cardio if you feel like it.
Do you think this would dramatically increase my fat loss?
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 19:28:14
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i would keep at least one fullbody workout per wk to maintane your muscle,there are some studies that say using your 10rm and training once a wk should keep what you have,then you can do 5 days cardio if you feel like it.
Do you think this would dramatically increase my fat loss?
only if your on a defecit of cals.
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 19:52:03
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my routine looks like this:
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(cycle to work 5 days a week - 8 miles a day)
mon: conditioning (HIIT type) + 1.5 mile run
tues: rest
wed: Judo (HIIT)
thurs: 3 mile run
friday:rest
sat:full body weight training + tabata
sun:hill sprints
i have lost muscle due to the radical change in diet training, but you can happily lose weight and not lose muscle mass , HIIT is excellent for the anerobic aswell as aerobic training - look at a sprinter - HIIT training v marathon runner - endurance training
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 20:29:15
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ORIGINAL: Kasei
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i would keep at least one fullbody workout per wk to maintane your muscle,there are some studies that say using your 10rm and training once a wk should keep what you have,then you can do 5 days cardio if you feel like it.
Do you think this would dramatically increase my fat loss?
only if your on a defecit of cals.
Well, as it stands at the moment, I eat about five meals a day, at around 400 cals each, so roughly about 2000~ should I lessen how often I eat, or how much I eat, or both?
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 20:36:19
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i wouldnt go less than 2000 calories mate , esp with that amount of training, you deffo should be in defecit
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 24 2008 20:54:09
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my wife started crying when she saw a photo of me all bloated and said i had to change. (which was true,i couldnt really play with the kids or anything)
i started around july last year , the exersise was the thing that did it for me - i could never lose weight just by adjusting calories (which is why many fail taking that route IMO)
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 25 2008 10:18:59
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Well, as it stands at the moment, I eat about five meals a day, at around 400 cals each, so roughly about 2000~ should I lessen how often I eat, or how much I eat, or both?
you really need to workout what your maintanance level is then drop by about 20%,its basicly cals in versus cals out.
you say 4 meals a day at 400cals thats 1600 not 2000,that sounds a little low.unless which is more likely you have not counted your meal cals correctly most people underestimate.
are you losing/gaining weight at the moment if neither then you could already be at maintanance.
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 26 2008 17:06:39
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ORIGINAL: Kasei
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ORIGINAL: buzzer
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Well, as it stands at the moment, I eat about five meals a day, at around 400 cals each, so roughly about 2000~ should I lessen how often I eat, or how much I eat, or both?
you really need to workout what your maintanance level is then drop by about 20%,its basicly cals in versus cals out.
you say 4 meals a day at 400cals thats 1600 not 2000,that sounds a little low.unless which is more likely you have not counted your meal cals correctly most people underestimate.
are you losing/gaining weight at the moment if neither then you could already be at maintanance.
If you look at my original post, it says I eat five meals a day.
oops but are you gaining or losing
Losing, but I was just wondering if replacing my resistance days with more HIIT I'd ultimately lose even more?
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RE: Replacing Weight Sessions For Cardio? - Apr. 28 2008 15:08:11
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probably,but keep at least one weights workout a wk to maintane.
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