Should Lifters Do Cardio?
As always, the first step is to define your goal. We can walk through a few scenarios for why cardiovascular training might make sense for you.
(more…)As always, the first step is to define your goal. We can walk through a few scenarios for why cardiovascular training might make sense for you.
(more…)As I’ve mentioned in some of my previous articles, including the one about training for strength, you can’t effectively train to optimize all three goals of strength, hypertrophy and fat loss at the same time!
There is a bit of carryover between strength and hypertrophy, but it’s more effective in the long-run to prioritize one at a time.
Here, we’ll focus on the primary goal of maximizing hypertrophy, which is commonly referred to as the scientific term for building muscle.
Muscle mass is essentially the amount and size of muscle fibers that you have, which makes up a cross sectional area. There’s no such thing as lean muscle or bulky muscle. Muscle tissue is muscle tissue.
(more…)First off, as with anything, it depends what your goal is. For the purpose of this article, I’m going to dive into the considerations, assuming muscle growth (hypertrophy) is the main intent of training.
*As a side note, if your goals are maximal strength or general health, training frequency doesn’t really matter as much.
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