5k, 10k runs or a marathon, brisk walking, jogging or sprints. Some are crazy about all this yet some think it will merely just ruin your hard earned gains over the time. I see most of us who go to gym just to look like your favourite actor or want to build their dream physiques giving precious time to their fitness regime, diet and mental consciousness. Heavy dumbells, big volume or supersets in between may leads to popping out of your muscles from your sleeves but have you ever listened to your heart?
- Do you know your maximum heart rate?
- Resting heart rate?
- Have your ever sprinted so hard you feel your heart gonna fail?
- Have you ever fainted while running and running so far?
If the answer of all these questions is a big NO then understand all those muscles popping out your sleeves are just a mere piece of art, it doesn't shows you are fit and by fit i definitely mean how fit is your heart? Is the blood flowing through your arteries smoothly without any flaws? Is your cholesterol level uniform? Sitting on a bench every other day with same fitness routine and curling some heavy ass dumbells will only help you to look sore.
Coming straight to the point, does cardio derails your gains? Well, the answer to your question is - IT DEPENDS.
It depends on your diet, your metabolism, your age and fitness regime. When it comes to muscles, marathon runners still got muscles, moreover they got quality muscles and are ripped AF. I hope it ends your quest here. Now you'll definitely think running will only burn fat & nothing else, for this to understand you have to understand the process of fat burn first.
PROCESS:
PROCESS:
The carbohydrates you consume above your body recommendation level is stored into your body as glycogen which serves you as a source of energy in your everyday workouts. While Running or any activity, your body starts to burn stored glycogen till the point it completely vanishes from your body. At this stage you'll start to faint because your body's source of energy is completely sinked. For coming up with more energy to support your running targets, your body starts to burn fat or your muscles to generate enough energy. If you are taking a protein abundant diet or supplementation, it is least possible that your body will burn your muscles, only your stored fat will be burned.
So if your main aim is to remove slabs of fat or want to get ripped, first burn calories without losing your gains by taking proper supplementation and consuming whole foods. He goes some value tips:
- Do cardio after your workouts so that least muscles loss will take place.
- Remember, small or les, muscles loss will surely take place when running is done above recommendation levels to remove fat.
- Don't remove calories from your diet drastically, remove it week by week starting from 400-500 in first week and so on.
- Include both High Intensity Interval Training(HIIT) and low intensity into your workouts.
- Change is the mother of invention - so change your workouts every 2 months or 7-8 weeks.
- Include both supersets and dropsets to burn more calories and feel more burn into your muscles tissues.
- Do compound exercise first in your routine.
The info provided above is written keeping in view the reader is an intermediate in the world of bodybuilding and understand the above specified terminologies.For any queries you can contact : lakshaylakhanpal5@gmail.com
