Making Cardio fun?! "Really" I hear you say!! Well just read on a little more, because this is certainly something you'll want to consider even if you decide not to do it.
If your like me you go to the gym for a hour a day, 5 times a week and this hour every day is what your whole day has been about. Every meal you've eaten, every minute of sleep and every bit of exercise you avoided doing to save energy for that one extra rep you so badly desire. Correct?
But then summer comes along and you need to do Cardio to push out those last 2 abs. Each and every summer you don't do it and your left looking at the summer's beach photos, thinking what could of been.
Well this year its going to be different, instead of adding 20 minutes to each workout or coming in twice a day, why don't you just make your hour more productive?
In between sets what do you do, rest, play on your phone, pose in the mirror (I do) or spot some stinky dude who really should find the deodrant isle at Boots!
How would you feel about doing some Cardio in between your weight sets? "HELL NO" i hear you cry! That would mean less reps, which means less weight, which means less muscle!! Well what if i said just taking a slow walk in between sets?! Maybe a light job if your feeling good that day?
What people don't realize is that walking for 1 minute in between sets even though it doesn't sound like much really adds up.
4 sets per exercise, 5 exercises im guessing? Thats 20 minutes of walking, meaning you've burnt an extra 400 Calories!
You can also change the intensity of your cardio to suite the stage of your workout. For big compound movements, save your energy and stroll on a treadmill, for the isolation movements so for it on the stepper, 4 minutes of near sprinting on the stepping will use over 200 Calories! That's nearly a Mars Bar!!
Say your Chest workout looks like this:
DB inc press 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of light walking.
Flat BB press 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of light walking.
Weighted Dips 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of fast walking.
DB inc flys 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of medium jogging.
Cable Crossover 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of max intensity stepper work.
Finish with until failure max intensity stepper work.
The last bit on the stepper should be recorded and written down, each workout trying to beat the time that you managed to sprint for! 1 second more each workout for 2 weeks is 14 seconds more, and for a month would be nearly half a minute more!
This program has the added benefit that especially the stepper, is good for abdominal muscles, further helping to bring out those buggers at the bottom!!
Thanks for reading and send me any feed back or comments to
jonno@completely-anabolic.com
or on the FACEBOOK page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bodybuilding-Video-of-the-Day/284605521655854
If your like me you go to the gym for a hour a day, 5 times a week and this hour every day is what your whole day has been about. Every meal you've eaten, every minute of sleep and every bit of exercise you avoided doing to save energy for that one extra rep you so badly desire. Correct?
But then summer comes along and you need to do Cardio to push out those last 2 abs. Each and every summer you don't do it and your left looking at the summer's beach photos, thinking what could of been.
Well this year its going to be different, instead of adding 20 minutes to each workout or coming in twice a day, why don't you just make your hour more productive?
In between sets what do you do, rest, play on your phone, pose in the mirror (I do) or spot some stinky dude who really should find the deodrant isle at Boots!
How would you feel about doing some Cardio in between your weight sets? "HELL NO" i hear you cry! That would mean less reps, which means less weight, which means less muscle!! Well what if i said just taking a slow walk in between sets?! Maybe a light job if your feeling good that day?
What people don't realize is that walking for 1 minute in between sets even though it doesn't sound like much really adds up.
4 sets per exercise, 5 exercises im guessing? Thats 20 minutes of walking, meaning you've burnt an extra 400 Calories!
You can also change the intensity of your cardio to suite the stage of your workout. For big compound movements, save your energy and stroll on a treadmill, for the isolation movements so for it on the stepper, 4 minutes of near sprinting on the stepping will use over 200 Calories! That's nearly a Mars Bar!!
Say your Chest workout looks like this:
DB inc press 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of light walking.
Flat BB press 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of light walking.
Weighted Dips 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of fast walking.
DB inc flys 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of medium jogging.
Cable Crossover 4 sets- With 1.30 rest, so 1 minute of max intensity stepper work.
Finish with until failure max intensity stepper work.
The last bit on the stepper should be recorded and written down, each workout trying to beat the time that you managed to sprint for! 1 second more each workout for 2 weeks is 14 seconds more, and for a month would be nearly half a minute more!
This program has the added benefit that especially the stepper, is good for abdominal muscles, further helping to bring out those buggers at the bottom!!
Thanks for reading and send me any feed back or comments to
jonno@completely-anabolic.com
or on the FACEBOOK page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bodybuilding-Video-of-the-Day/284605521655854
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