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Originally Posted by nj19  So what are you saying Wrangell? Do you do any actual weight-lifting or intensive cardio sessions? |
I do both.
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Originally Posted by nj19 Unless you use the pink weights you cannot lift heavy/moderate weights after an hour of grilling cardio. |
First of all, you simply mentioned ' cardio ' in your query - which can be anything from 20 minutes of low intensity steady state cardio to 30 minutes of
HIIT to an hour of either low to moderate intensity or "
grilling cardio " - you didn't go into any detail as to exactly what type of cardio your were alluding to.
If you had been more specific and mentioned you were doing an hour of grilling cardio at the outset, I likely would have suggested you do cardio afterwards. That said, most gym rats do 20 - 30 minutes of moderate cardio or 20 - 30
HIIT cardio if they do the weight training at the same time,.Reason being, doing 1 hour of cardio and 1 hour of weight training back to back - 2 hours plus - simply sucks up too much time in a single session for most gym rats.
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Originally Posted by nj19 Your simplistic "fat loss is all about calorie loss" would be better put as "weight loss (both fat and muscle) is all about calorie loss" as that's the direction you are heading. |
No it's not.
What I said earlier is correct - "
fat loss ( burning fat ) IS all about calorie loss ". Thus the maxim you so often see, ' if you want to drop a pound of fat, you have to lose 3,500 calories. ' In other words, fat loss is all about losing calories....it's as ' simple ' as it gets I'm afraid...it ain't rocket science .
As far as muscle loss goes, any significant muscle loss due to training only occurs if your body is ' forced ' to resort to protein for energy. This most often occurs when your glycogen stores are extremely low or you're involved in some sort of endurance cardio. Assuming your nutritional habits are sound and you fuel properly throughout the day ( and before and after exercise ) , doing an hour of hard cardio and weight training shouldn't have an adverse impact on your muscles IMO.
