Hey /fit/ I had a cardio question. I was going to try just doing cardio for about a month before I go back to a weight lifting routine to try and lean down. But I was wondering how much I should pay attention to the fat burning heart rate range I always see on the machines.Normally I just run about as hard as I can but my heart rate ends up far above that range. Does it really help to stay in that lower range or will I do better just going balls out?
All out or fall out
the lower range is bullshit as long as you got to the higher range progresively
So what I've heard occasionally about overworking the body and all that in the higher range is bullshit?
For a healthy cardio aerobic exercise you should do like this: (220-your age in years)x0.8=optimal exercise
I know people that do 45 min of LISS (70-75% MHR) and look amazing, same with people who do 20 min of HIIT. Just get your cardio in
>>169351But I'm not working in the same ranges for the same amount of time, does that not really matter?
there really is not such thing as the "fatburning" zone as most of the metabolic changes occur post workout
>>169172220-age isn't terribly accurate ive found
>>169351lol i guarantee you i can get SHREDDED without doing a single second of cardio. AND have muscle to boot.
>>170470and then when you try to play a sport you can look like a tool
>>170472lol
>>170472like olympic weightlifting? :P
>>170470Well, I've been doing pretty much all weight lifting for awhile now, but I hit a plateau on most exercises and a massive wall on my bench where I think it actually went down. A friend of mine told me some advice (that he actually got from this board) that switching up the weight lifting and just doing cardio for a couple weeks then going back is a good way to see gains again.
>>170482That works. Well, it sort of works. When you plateau out just take a week or two break from lifting, ease back into it for a week, and then get back into a normal regime. I'm no nutritionist, but it works for me.