How can I replace cardio if I have a broken leg?
You can replace “cardio” with strength training, focusing on compound exercises for the upper body and performing unilateral exercises for the non-injured leg.You don’t need steady state activities for “cardio,” a proper strength training program can provide equal or greater cardiovascular and metabolic conditioning benefits while also improving other factors of functional ability:High Intensity Strength Training for Cardiovascular Conditioning and Fat LossMore On High Intensity Training For Cardiovascular And Metabolic ConditioningQ&A: High Intensity Strength Training, “Cardio”, Or Both?
HIIT Cardio the night before a leg day?
I'm doing this program by Ben Pakulski (MI40), and he says to do HIIT Cardio before a leg day: "20 minutes of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is done on “OFF” days and 15 MINUTES of HIIT is to be done the NIGHT before leg workouts." Legs being quads and calves (not hamstrings). I'm meant to do it maximum 3 days out of a week. I questioned this a bit but what do you think? Thanks.
Is Cardio enough to get tonned thighs? If yes, then what are the exercises? If no, then what are the other ways to tone them?
According to me, If you are doing only cardio then you can increase your stamina, it helps you decrease your body fat, it also helps you to strengthen your muscles.It helps you to strengthen your lungs and heart. Which low the risk of heart attack.According to a new review of 14 studies, aerobic training like running, walking, and cycling not only doesn’t diminish leg muscle mass—it actually increases it. In several of the studies reviewed, both younger and older men who did about 45 minutes of cardio four days a week at 80% max heart rate increased leg muscle size by 5% and 6%, respectively. “Aerobic exercise, if done properly, can lead to as much muscle growth as you’d expect with resistance exercise,” says study author Matthew Harber, Ph.D. “Intensity is more important than duration, so if the goal’s growth, work up to 80% of your max heart rate.” Click here for best Cardio for Tonned Thigh: Best Videos and vlogs on YouTube | huntsends
I need to do cardio but my legs are sore for days after really heavy squatting. What is the best thing to do in this case?
I ran a marathon 8 days ago. It was the hardest race I’ve ever run, extremely hilly. My legs were utterly destroyed. My calves, hammies, quads, and glutes…. Every single muscle in my legs. I had significant trouble walking up and down stairs.I still ran 5 miles the next day. And then I ran the following day, and the following day. I’ve run every single day since my marathon. On Saturday I did 6 sets of deadlifts. Then I ran 10 miles. Yesterday my glutes were totally fried. I still ran 7 miles and biked 12.Soreness is irrelevant. Unless you’re actually injured, just ignore the pain and exercise anyway.A few months ago I did a personal 80 day deadlift challenge. I did deadlifts every single morning, 6 days a week. And I still ran 6 or 7 days a week, about 50 miles a week.Your body is amazing. It’s capable of handling pretty much anything you throw at it. It will complain (via soreness, pain, and exhaustion). But when you start lifting, or start running, that energy will be there. You just have to trust your body to give you what you need, when you need it.
Will 30 minutes of cardio a day make my legs skinny?
You didnt give enough information about your body type for somebody to answer this question good enough. Weight, age, and height is what we need to know. Also do you work out normally? How much do you eat? (In calories.) If you walk 30 minutes but still eat a load of food then there wouldnt be much of a difference. Also make sure it is walking if you're wanting your legs to look skinny because running gains you muscels which makes your legs look bigger. But whenever you do cardio you lose weight all over your body.
What are the best non-cardio exercises for weight loss?
Weight training works the heart and lungs massively, but it’s not what is meant by the (jargon) term “cardio”.Squats and lunges and leg presses are the best for weight loss. The glute is the biggest muscle group in the body with most people. Therefore it will burn the most calories. And the other leg muscles are burning calories too.But I’d say the squat, since sometimes with lunges the pain is so bad that you stop before you’re taxed (ie how many calories you’ve burned) as much as you would have been with the squat.AdamHealthySculpt CoachingI would add that you could add power cleans and snatches etc to that - but it depends on the build of the person. Only a male, really, with a lot of upper body mass, will get equal calorie benefit to the squat. And when I say male, it is a fact that it’s extremely exceptional that a woman will have the relative muscle mass upper body vs lower body, to a man. Athough actually there are of course many men who have relatively huge legs and skinny upper bodies, they will not be doing anything other than squat / leg exercises for the purpose of maximum calorie burn either, will they?
Is it good to do running and cardio with leg training like squat, dead lift and so on?
It’s not a strict yes or no, but it’s important to understand that leg exercises serve a different purpose in your workout routine than running does. How you work them in should depend on what type of workout you’re trying to get that day.In general:Running is used to improve your speed/power (sprints) or endurance (cardio).Squat and deadlift are primarily used to build muscle strength and/or size.If you run first (for more than a warmup) you’ll probably not squat as much later; and vice versa. That being said, there are also benefits to throwing in a circuit where you do something like 4 x (20 squat jumps, 20 push-ups, run 100 mtrs).Keep your body guessing, and design your workouts to get the most out of what you put in.
Why is cardio making my thighs bigger?
While your excersizing is good, you aren't getting enough calories to maintain health. Your thighs are getting bigger, because you are building muscle in your legs. Instead of starving your body, increase lean red meat in your diet a little. Intake of a little fat will tell your body it is okay to lose some. Starvation of fat causes your body to shut down the loss of body fat reserves. That is just the way it works. That is why doctors have obese patients go on a ketonic diet for a few weeks at the beginning of their diet. But I digress. Try getting a more balanced diet. As far as your thighs, maybe cut down the routine a little and/or ride a bike a few miles a day.
What kind of cardio machines do you recommend for losing leg fat and not build muscle?
If you are doing cardiovascular exercises you don't have to worry about building muscle. As a matter of fact, if you have a good diet aiming at losing fat most likely you will lose muscle mass instead of gaining it. With that being said, I would still stay away from the stair master, not that is going to make your legs bigger, but if there is anything that might it would be that. You mentioned that you want to lose leg fat. Not sure if you are aware, but their is no exercise that's going to target fat lose in any part of your body. You can do cardio and lose fat as a whole, but you can't just target your leg fat. If that's where you genetically hold most of your fat, then that's probably the last part of your body to lose it. Don't worry about gaining muscles because it's not that easy. I use to workout hard at the gym, but I also use to run marathons. For a long time I was having a hard time gaining muscle mass because of all the running I was doing. I had to stop running completely before being able to put muscle mass, and that's with me hitting the gym and lifting lots of weights. So trust me when I tell you, it's is very difficult to put on muscle mass specially if you are not aiming for it.Also understand that without the proper nutrition you might not lose the unwanted fat even if you exercise all day everyday. You will only lose fat if you are on a caloric deficit, this means that if you keep eating a lot more than what you burn in a daily basis, you will still gain weight or at best just maintain. Hope this helps!