The great debate. Should you do cardio during a lean bulk cycle? if so:. how often? how much?

The great debate.

Should you do cardio during a lean bulk cycle?
if so:
how often?
how much?
should you "eat back" your calories burned from said cardio?
The goal is to gain muscle mass, but you also don't want to just flat out ignore cardio and let your heart health suffer....or do you?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do cardio
    Eat back the calories lost
    You should always be doing cardio
    How much?
    As much as you can. Just get your heart rate up for an extended period of time.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >As much as you can. Just get your heart rate up for an extended period of time.
      Doesn't this just take away from your lifting though? your body has to recover from cardio just how it recovers from muscles being taxed.

      If you spend a lot of effort on cardio your body recovers your muscles less effectively from your lifts?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        1-2 miles 3-4x a week isn't going to impact your gains.
        In fact it will improve gains by improving blood flow and heart rate.
        Your endurance and work capacity will also increase. Let's not forget it will keep your BP down.
        Stop looking for a way out. Do cardii

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Doing at least 20 minutes of daily LISS has far more benefits to almost everyone's goals than it does detriment.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I lift one day and rest the next day.
      Should I just do one day lift, then on "Rest day" just do 30 minutes of LISS jogging?

      or should I do 60 minutes?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Just do 30mins unless you want to be good at running.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        To add onto my previous post

        1-2 miles 3-4x a week isn't going to impact your gains.
        In fact it will improve gains by improving blood flow and heart rate.
        Your endurance and work capacity will also increase. Let's not forget it will keep your BP down.
        Stop looking for a way out. Do cardii

        and this post

        Doing at least 20 minutes of daily LISS has far more benefits to almost everyone's goals than it does detriment.

        I personally do cardio after my lifting session. When I was bulking I'd just jog up an incline for 15 minutes. Now that I'm cutting I decreases the Incline but upped the time to 30 minutes.
        LISS after lifting may have some small impact on my gains, but I've gotten bigger and stronger with no issue.
        So far I've lost 15lbs on my cut and I haven't lost any real strength on my lifts yet.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >So far I've lost 15lbs on my cut and I haven't lost any real strength on my lifts yet.
          How exactly do your bulk/cut cycles work anon? that's a lot of lbs. Do you go back and forth between a set number of lbs?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            This first 10lbs+ of a cut is mostly just water weight.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              So how do you properly know when to switch from cut to bulk and then bulk to cut??

              do you just use bf%?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Just finish when you want to. I’m cutting down until I see my abs then will go on a lean bulk (+300 calories) after that.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              That isn’t true.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >one day cardio
    >the other strength
    that easy
    do both

    also if you never get your heart rate to like 80-90% HRMax you're heart ages significant faster
    you literally die earlier because you don't wanna do a bit of cardio

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If your goal is just heart health and not burning calories, you could just combine your cardio and lifting by doing supersets of separate muscle groups. My HR stays between 120bpm and 140bpm during a 1 hour lifting session because I take no rests. I alternative between push, pull, and leg exercises.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on whether you care more about living a few months longer or squeezing out that extra 10 grams of muscle mass for your next competition.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    > Dumbbells.
    > Strength training.

    Excuse me? At least use a freaking barbell no plates OHP, Dumbbells create endurance based strength whereas you can do such with barbells but also go heavier due to the even load which is easier to handle.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      anon it's just some generic clip art picture calm down

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only things I would consider appropriate depiction of strength training with dumbbells would be straight arm lateral raises or renegade rows, those actually are beneficial for one's strength.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dumbbells are better for any lift unless it's a heavy compound like deadlift where barbells are the only feasible equipment. Lifting two dumbbells hits small stabilizer muscles that barbells don't work and makes it impossible for strength imbalances to form. When I switched from low bar squats to split squats I discovered that my left leg was about 20-30% weaker than my right.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, and you should be getting enough calories to allow for it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      what do you mean? you mean "eat back" your cardio calories?

      If my fitwatch says I burned 500 cals on a jog, do I eat back 500 cals?

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