I hear it all the time, CARDIO SUCKS!!!!!!! Guess what, you can’t attain the physique you desire (unless you want to live a life with out seeing your six pack) without it. It’s like buying a brand new SUV and hating to put gas in it. If you don’t gas it up, it’s going to look great sitting your driveway and that’s it. Cardio is a necessary evil for attaing the six pack we all desire. Check all the profiles with guys with extreme abs, They all do cardio. The question is how much and what type. I’ve found that you can do long duration, intervals, combination of both or all out maximum effort. The key is getting it in at the right times and definitely at the right phase of your transformation. When you are starting out, you can go a little crazy with the cardio and try a bunch of different things until you find a form that works for you. You will have the nutrition to support it and you won’t take too much away from your weight training. As you start to take calories or carbs away, you have to change up the plan a little. In my contest prep, I might start off doing a good amount of road work and sprint work at the local track. As it gets closer to competition and the abs really start locking in, I have to back it off a bit and maybe do a combo of intervals with slow duration as I get towards the end of the cardio sessions. You don’t want to go too deep or it will trigger the desire for bad eating. I don’t do cardio around my leg training until it gets close to showtime when I have no choice. The final three weeks I’m doing probably two 55 to 58 min sessions of cardio per day. Depends on how much I have left to burn. What I find works best for me is getting in at least two HIIT sessions with weekly cardio needs. It makes me dig a little deeper but doesn’t take too much out of me and I feel it sparks my fat burning and I just do my best to keep it going the rest of the week. I also do most cardio sessions with no weight training attached. I hit the cardio first thing in the morning, get a couple of good meals in and lift at lunch. I end the day with a session of cardio as well.
Cardio Sucks!!!!
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