Quick question

[tomuchgear]

perhaps the word i was looking for was stimulate. any way i am glad that you finaly understood what i was trieng to say. by that i mean i am glad i was finaly able to phraze my statement the right way lol. i am still getting the hang of this oh ya check out the thread what wrong with plain old fn love. i have been looking forward to your post there.

 

[mcguin]

Can you explain the negatives to doing cardio 5 times a week, and also splitting my day by cardio in the am and my normal lifting routine in the pm? and just to make things clear and I apologize if I mislead, my goal right now is to cut as much bodyfat as possible. I know I will lose some muscle mass, and I'm prepared for that as I could spare it right now.

 

[tomuchgear]

negatives of doing cardio five times a week can be more muscle burn. the afore mentioned negative were about lifting five times a week though. reason not to do am then pm is simple really. if you tire your muscles before you go to the gym your lifting will not be as good. since muscle can be fatigued already. thats why i stated earlier choose morning cardio carefully. if i do cardio twice a day i only do ten minutes at most in the morning. that is to just kickstart my body. then in the after noon i will do 20min of hiit on a cycle after i lift. sorry that your thread got so off topic bro.

 

[mcguin]

negatives of doing cardio five times a week can be more muscle burn. the afore mentioned negative were about lifting five times a week though. reason not to do am then pm is simple really. if you tire your muscles before you go to the gym your lifting will not be as good. since muscle can be fatigued already. thats why i stated earlier choose morning cardio carefully. if i do cardio twice a day i only do ten minutes at most in the morning. that is to just kickstart my body. then in the after noon i will do 20min of hiit on a cycle after i lift. sorry that your thread got so off topic bro.

nahh dont worry about it...thanks for all your input...

 

[tomuchgear]

no problem bro i hope that at least a little bit of it helped.

 

[oneovercabin]

There's no way to build "lean mass" as Gaz stated. The best you can hope for is to build mass and eat the right foods so that you do not increase your BF too much.

This guy clearly wants to cut. Sure, keeping mass is a goal, but adding mass isn't really possible if you're in a caloric deficit. If you want to cut, do enough cardio (I wouldn't say 5 days a week is too much), put yourself in a small caloric deficit (don't overdo it), and lift at maintenence. You're going to lose some mass and strength along with it, that's just the nature of cutting.

But I disagree that "cardio is just cardio". I guess it depends on what your training goals are, but I think different cardio forms are much different (then again I am more of an endurance athlete than a bodybuilder). If you're training for bodybuilding, it doesn't make much difference what cardio you do as long as you can work in HIIT and burn calories.

I actually believe cutting is 90% about your diet. Sure, cardio will help you burn that last extra BF, but dieting correctly will help you get to the point where you need more cardio. When cutting, worry more about your diet than any form of cardio you're going to do.