12-10-14, 06:27 PM | |
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Most of the time I do my cardio and weights separately - not a lot of circuit training - so I try to balance my steady state, interval and HiiT cardio. If I fit in three cardio sessions a week, I generally do one long steady session, one interval session and one Hiit on the floor. My treadmill and step get heavy use for both steady-state and interval cardio.
A lot depends on my strength training. Right now I'm in the midst of Body Beast, and those five days per week of heavy weight training exhaust me. HiiT also takes a lot out of me, so if I do HiiT it'll be short, like Cathe 30/30 or Low Impact Hiit (my choice today), not an hour-long Breathless Body. I'll also go moderate on the length of my steady-state and interval (no more than 40 minutes) when I'm focusing on weights. Circuit training is an occasional for me, usually as a plateau buster, and I don't add extra cardio to circuit weeks.
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12-11-14, 02:10 PM | ||
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12-13-14, 10:24 AM | |
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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What are your goals?
I don't do any dedicated "cardio" per se any longer, but certainly get a huge component during my normal Crossfit workouts. Unless you are marathon training or other long slow distance training, steady state cardio is a bit of a time waste (unless you purely enjoy it, of course). You get a substantially more effective workout doing HIIT, or tabatas, or metcon styles. If you work a bootcamp style workout into your schedule 2-3x/week that could do the trick nicely.
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12-13-14, 01:05 PM | |
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Aftet 10+ years of mostly circuit (strength/cardio combos) and HIIT, I am back to doing steady state (running), and LOVE IT! It's physically more demanding than any other cardio workout I've ever done, and it seems to be maintaining my weight better, as well. I've also seen changes in the shape of my body I've never gotten from anything else. ~25 years ago, I had a ski machine I used 5-7 days a week, but after about ten years of that, I wore the poor machine out and burned out on cardio machines. I tried bikes, treadmills, ellipticals, even another NordicTrak, but never could recapture the love. Then followed a decade or so of hard-cardio-by-video, which I ABSOLUTELY LOVED. I know my joints benefited mightily from all the high impact and abrupt moves--stronger ankles, especially--but the aesthetics were never what I hoped for.
Now I'm back to steady state, and enjoying the cardiovascular benefits (my cholesterol plummeted!) and finally having aesthetic results where I *look* like I work out, plus the benefits of sunshine and fresh air can't be overstated! But I know I need to find time for some crosstraining, too (my joints need a little refresher, and my posture isn't as good as with a lot of bodyweight stuff). The schedule just hasn't permitted it lately!
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12-13-14, 04:54 PM | |
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Another who was thinking- what are your goals and what do you like?
I never believed that you didn't get cardio benefit from things like weight lifting, or circuit workouts. Funny, that the current trends are just versions of circuits and those doing them still pooh pooh circuits. Something I find confusing. But, hey. In my experience doing hiit or metabolic workouts aren't going to work for endurance activities (if you want to pooh pooh that, do 1 minute intervals instead of 30 seconds or go bike or hike hard for three hours ), so if you are also looking for endurance I would do some hiit and some endurance. If you are just looking for fitness, do any of them but make sure that you do some work that is challenging. at least once a week (walk faster, farther, intervals, etc.) |
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