Does cardio make that much of a differnce for cutting? If I lift six days a week and fast 16 hours everyday, will a few sessions of say HIIT jump rope have an impact? I'm not trying to get out of cardio, I'll do it anyway, but realistically will it do much?
do your cardio you lazy homosexual
Why? Cardio is especially bad when on caloric deficit. It catabolizes a lot of muscle mass.
so, keep doing what I'm doing?
No
Cardio isnt necessary but it can definitely help. Personally, I find it really difficult to eat a well rounded diet with enough protein without doing some cardio. Also, cardio is just good for you, and your muscles arent gonna wither away if you hit a few cardio sessions a week.
Low intensity cardio really doesn't matter very much when it comes to losing fat. The biggest contributor will be very high intensity cardio - so stuff like sprints, or 5+ rep sets of squats to within 1-2 reps of failure, supersets, etc.
Mid-high intensity cardio will also help considerably, but low intensity cardio is basically only for volume.
The point is that the higher intensity cardio exercise will alter your metabolic rate, whereas lower intensity cardio doesn't alter it much unless you do a very high volume of it.
Great analysis dude, however, you are a dyel and doing high intensity cardio on a cut is an insane strategy that will deplete all your energy if you add lifting weights and just living life into the equation.
Well, what should I do as a program for cutting then, hypertrophy compound rep PPL six days?
Anon. Lifting weights is the high intensity cardio.
Also, you don't know what you're talking about. High intensity cardio doesn't really do much to deplete one's energy nearly as much as low-mid intensity, since you don't need as much volume. He won't get his energy depleted from doing some 10x50m sprints every morning.
>Lifting weights is the high intensity cardio.
Stopped reading. Get off the couch.
Anon, do you know what cardio means?
Lol LISS, specifically walking, is quite literally the best thing you can do if you’re in the camp of newbies who believes that they will lose muscle as a natty just by running a little.
>geared pros
= can lose muscle easily and every ounce counts
These guys are going on walks for cardio
>n-no walking isn’t cardio
It’s LISS. You may not get as much of the typical cardiovascular benefits from it as running or sprinting but you will get some. But more to the point here, walking will draw calories from fat much quicker than running. Run for an hour, you’ve mainly used glycogen. Walk for an hour, mainly fat assuming you’re in a deficit. And no one’s talking about just poddling along at a relaxed pace, walk fast and do inclines and go for an hour minimum.
Doesn’t even have to be walking, you can row.
If you’re over 15% the best thing you can do to speed your cut up without worrying about the (massively overblown) risk of muscle loss in addition to a calorie deficit is walk.
>muscle loss
Unless you genuinely have some of the worlds shittiest genetics, you will not lose muscle if you continue to lift. If you drop to single digit body fat, or start training for marathons, or you’re on gear and actually big, then you begin to have this risk.
Lift, walk daily, slight deficit. Congrats you shredded up.
>Muh cardio
Do it. You don’t have to go all out. Just running 1-2 times a week is sufficient for overall health. There’s no “CATABOLIC!!” “MUSCLE LOSS!!” Excuses. You’re not some pro mr. O sized man, you’re a lazy dyel hoping anons post up here to justify not doing something he dislikes. If you don’t care about overall health and just aesthetics then don’t do it. Stop this reddit tier posting searching for justification in your own life decisions.
just do casual light cardio, like dancing
hello goldberg.
>will doing 400-500cal/n number of days do x
well depends
Yes. Its a low impact activity that burns calories. Its very effective.
Push/pull is fine. In fact, it's probably overall the best split for aesthetics if you're natural in my opinion.
You can do stuff like superset squats with DB press on push day, high rep deadlifts or power cleans on pull day, etc. The main thing you might want to do is increase volume, e.g. instead of doing 3 sets of an exercise, do 5 sets, and/or double the number of reps you do in each set. If you still want to go heavy sometimes, you can, but do something like 10x3 instead of 5x3.
The main difficulty with push/pull is that since you end up doing legs on both days, they can end up sore sometimes, so you just have to push through that, or reduce the load once in a while.
Yeah, I think I'm going to have to change it up, cheers bro, my current thing is HIT based, so it's do 6 reps of your top set, 10 seconds, squeeze out some more reps, repeat, but maybe I just need to go back to old fashioned, no bullshit 3/5 x 10. So, I could keep the lifts the same on the same days, but focus on destroying myself.
Both work generally, and which one is better depends on the person. You should play around with it a bit, and see which works better for you. I'd incorporate a bit of both, since it's generally good to expose the body to a variety of stresses.