You did biceps, triceps and abs and a good solid 30 minutes of cardio! fantastic!
have you thought about alternating body parts a bit? chest and shoulders + cardio next time, then legs, back and butt (no cardio) the following session?
If you rotate through your whole body and get several good consistent 20-30 minute cardio sessions in as well, you will see excellent all around results.
Forgive me if you've already posted about splitting up bodyparts. My mind is kind of mushy these days. : )
Truthfully, until yesterday I didn't give much thought to splitting up body parts. You did not miss any posts. I would kind of like to do cardio as often as possible. Would cardio, biceps, triceps abs, then cardio, chest back, legs, butt, then repeat, keeping cardio as a constant work? Or, perhaps make cardio and abs a constant?
I am working out just about every other day when aI am not out of town. Weekend are currently problematic only because we are doing so much renovation these days.
Bill, doing cardio on the same day that you do legs is pretty difficult UNLESS you do your cardio on a rowing machine. Even then, it's a challenge. Working legs in a systematic, well-rounded way leaves them exhausted, so piling leg-based cardio on top of a legs workout is not a good idea.
I totally understand your desire to do cardio every time; if you have enough workout time you can do it, as long as you do arms-based cardio on your leg days. However, doing legs and butt burns *alot* of calories, so you might just consider dropping cardio on those days.
I forgot to change the peak heart rate from 153 to 135. I took giffen's advice on lowering the HR and going for a longer time. I increased the time from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.
I am impatient for results! I want my fitness level to work faster. I am trying not to be a "Type A" about this, but, I know what I was capable of in my long, long forgotten youth, and I want it back, NOW.
I will be thonking about doing my workouts early in the morning so I can have more time, maybe up to two hours. Workouts can be slower, or less rushed, and more thorough.
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have you thought about alternating body parts a bit? chest and shoulders + cardio next time, then legs, back and butt (no cardio) the following session?
If you rotate through your whole body and get several good consistent 20-30 minute cardio sessions in as well, you will see excellent all around results.
Forgive me if you've already posted about splitting up bodyparts. My mind is kind of mushy these days. : )
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I am working out just about every other day when aI am not out of town. Weekend are currently problematic only because we are doing so much renovation these days.
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I totally understand your desire to do cardio every time; if you have enough workout time you can do it, as long as you do arms-based cardio on your leg days. However, doing legs and butt burns *alot* of calories, so you might just consider dropping cardio on those days.
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I am impatient for results! I want my fitness level to work faster. I am trying not to be a "Type A" about this, but, I know what I was capable of in my long, long forgotten youth, and I want it back, NOW.
I will be thonking about doing my workouts early in the morning so I can have more time, maybe up to two hours. Workouts can be slower, or less rushed, and more thorough.
Getting buffer and buffer,
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