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Anonymous
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?
>> Anonymous
All out or fall out
>> Anonymous
the lower range is bullshit as long as you got to the higher range progresively
>> Anonymous
So what I've heard occasionally about overworking the body and all that in the higher range is bullshit?
>> Anonymous
For a healthy cardio aerobic exercise you should do like this: (220-your age in years)x0.8=optimal exercise
>> Anonymous
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
>> Anonymous
>>169351

But I'm not working in the same ranges for the same amount of time, does that not really matter?
>> Anonymous
there really is not such thing as the "fatburning" zone as most of the metabolic changes occur post workout
>> Anonymous
>>169172
220-age isn't terribly accurate ive found
>> Anonymous
>>169351

lol i guarantee you i can get SHREDDED without doing a single second of cardio. AND have muscle to boot.
>> Anonymous
>>170470
and then when you try to play a sport you can look like a tool
>> Anonymous
>>170472

lol
>> Anonymous
>>170472
like olympic weightlifting? :P
>> Anonymous
>>170470

Well, 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.
>> Anonymous
>>170482
That 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.