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Title: Morning cardio
Post by: calfzilla on July 03, 2008, 11:22:29 PM
I think I'm going to go to start doing morning cardio to lose some fat.  What should I eat before morning cardio? 
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: AVBG on July 03, 2008, 11:38:58 PM
nothing, just have some bcaa's and coffee
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Montague on July 04, 2008, 07:27:20 AM
Not much – if any – science to support this, but cardio on an empty stomach first thing in the a.m. has always worked best for me when losing fat.

Even when I didn’t drink coffee prior, 45-60 min. of moderate intensity first thing worked wonders.

But knowing more now, I agree with AVBG – consume coffee and aminos before starting. The first time I tried this method some years ago, I am almost certain that I burned through some muscle.
Adjust the rest of your diet accordingly.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 09:07:53 AM
Something to ponder;


You stop eating the night before around 8-9:00, sleep 8 hours or so, get up and do a long slow sustained cardio session with no energy source. Why do "cardio" when you don't have the energy to do it. Stick with HIIT after your weight training, carbs before and post workout.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Bobby on July 04, 2008, 09:52:53 AM
Something to ponder;


You stop eating the night before around 8-9:00, sleep 8 hours or so, get up and do a long slow sustained cardio session with no energy source. Why do "cardio" when you don't have the energy to do it. Stick with HIIT after your weight training, carbs before and post workout.


maybe the cardio is low intensity and therefor the fuel it gets from stored bodyfat will be enough and no need to breakdown musclemass for additional fuel?
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Montague on July 04, 2008, 10:31:51 AM
Not sure how similar it is to HIIT, but the Tabata cardio protocol is also very effective. The system, which takes just under 4 minutes to complete, has been shown in clinical studies to have a greater impact on burning stored fat as well as greater muscle sparing effects than conventional 45 min. moderate int. cardio.

In fact, I’ve been relying on it the last two months – primarily due to time constraints – and am pleased with its results. Since I’ve not made it into the gym as frequently as when dieting in years past, I cannot make an accurate personal comparison between the two systems.

Suffice to say that both work. Which works better may depend on the individual, as it often does with many things we do in the gym. Someday I hope to find out for myself which works best.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 11:45:49 AM
theres actually plenty of science to back up morning cardio.

its very good at burning off adipose... but it also poses some risk as potentially causing the loss of some skeletal muscle...albeit a very limited amount...


a good idea would be a small amoutn of fat free carb free protein, preferably casein, with some fish oil, and a small amount of caffiene, (possibly some EGCG and/or sesamine as well ), about 30 mins prior to cardio.  dirnking lots of water will help to prevent muscle loss, as well as to keep fat utilization efficient.

anywhere from 5 minutes to one hour of low intensity cardio can be beneficial. depending on your goals.

off season i ride a stationary bike for maybe 5-10 minutes first thing every morning...   i feel this just helps a little bit with insulin sensitivty during my first meal. i dont really think it does TOO much difference. but its something to try. 
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: John O on July 04, 2008, 12:33:41 PM
Doing cardio first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach, before you eat anything, is by far, the most effective.  When you do your cardio workout, you are burning calories. Lets say you wake up, eat breakfast, eat lunch later in the day, and then a few hours after lunch, you do your cardio. All you will be doing during that cardio is burning the calories and carbs of the food you  ate during the day. When you do cardio first thing in the morning, you haven't eaten anything for the last 8 or so hours because you were sleeping. So, when your body sees that there are no carbs to burn, it goes directly to stored bodyfat. And stored bodyfat is the fat that is on your body, which is the fat that you want to lose!


Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 01:40:08 PM
I think I'm going to go to start doing morning cardio to lose some fat.  What should I eat before morning cardio? 

doesnt matter for fatloss if you do morning cardio or not. no exercising can raise fatburning over a 24hour period. if you do cardio on an empty stomach in the morning you will burn more fat during that time period but the rest of the day you will be burnng more 'carbs', so in the end it doesnt matter.

so if you do cardio in the morning do it for the right reasons = you like to get a good start to the day.

the important thing is to create a caloric deficit. (reducing caloric intake and adding cardio whenever you want)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 01:43:24 PM
theres actually plenty of science to back up morning cardio.


Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 01:43:41 PM
in other words it doesnt matter if your burning 'carbs' or fat during your cardio as long as a caloric deficit is achieved.

fat burning zone is also shit. its not a myth but it doesnt matter as long as you achieve a caloric deficit.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 01:46:21 PM


indeed you burn more fat if you do it on an empty stomach. but  at the end of the day it doesnt matter what substrate (dont wanna burn muscle tho) your burning as no exercise can increas fat burning to a significant degree over a 24 hour period.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 01:46:41 PM
theres actually plenty of science to back up morning cardio.

its very good at burning off adipose...
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 01:48:04 PM


you still have to achieve a caloric deficit. thus see my comments above
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:03:32 PM
theres actually plenty of science to back up morning cardio. its very good at burning off adipose... but it also poses some risk as potentially causing the loss of some skeletal muscle...albeit a very limited amount...


a good idea would be a small amoutn of fat free carb free protein, preferably casein, with some fish oil, and a small amount of caffiene, (possibly some EGCG and/or sesamine as well ), about 30 mins prior to cardio.  dirnking lots of water will help to prevent muscle loss, as well as to keep fat utilization efficient.

anywhere from 5 minutes to one hour of low intensity cardio can be beneficial. depending on your goals.

off season i ride a stationary bike for maybe 5-10 minutes first thing every morning...   i feel this just helps a little bit with insulin sensitivty during my first meal. i dont really think it does TOO much difference. but its something to try. 

Show me published case studies.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:04:54 PM
you still have to achieve a caloric deficit. thus see my comments above
well do you consider morning cardio part of calories in vs. calories out ?  i dont.  and if you dont, then you can lose fat on maintanence calories or slightly above...using morning cardio as the fat burner
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:06:43 PM
Show me published case studies.
a case study showing what exactly ?

the science is based on the metabolic state you are in immidietly upon rising... and the effcts of morning cardio on insulin sensitivty throughout the day...   

i doubt you have ever read any real endrocrinology journals ANYWASY coach.. so please STFU and go back to your celebrity clients who you give clen to and make do sprint and call yoruself genius cuz they arent fat slobs after following your "methods"
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:15:17 PM
a case study showing what exactly ?

the science is based on the metabolic state you are in immidietly upon rising... and the effcts of morning cardio on insulin sensitivty throughout the day...   

i doubt you have ever read any real endrocrinology journals ANYWASY coach.. so please STFU and go back to your celebrity clients who you give clen to and make do sprint and call yoruself genius cuz they arent fat slobs after following your "methods"

Dude, don't meltdown because you can't prove it. You need to hit at least 2-3 seminars per year by experts in the field, attend some conferences by the people who have actually written the studies and had them published. It makes a difference.

BTW, I don't give or advocate any stimulants to any of my clients especially my athletes.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 02:17:28 PM
well do you consider morning cardio part of calories in vs. calories out ?  i dont.  and if you dont, then you can lose fat on maintanence calories or slightly above...using morning cardio as the fat burner

i consider cardio as a tool to burn calories. doesnt really matter if you burn fat or 'carbs' when your doing cardio. (and no need to make extreme interpretations of this statement)

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:19:04 PM
Dude, don't meltdown because you can't prove it. You need to hit at least 2-3 seminars per year by experts in the field, attend some conferences by the people who have actually written the studies and had them published. It makes a difference.

BTW, I don't give or advocate any stimulants to any of my clients especially my athletes.
are you referecning clenbuterol ?     ;D

come on joe..

 why dont you do some research on what kind of metabolic state you are in when you wake up joe

that will point you in a right direction
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:21:02 PM
i consider cardio as a tool to burn calories. doesnt really matter if you burn fat or 'carbs' when your doing cardio. (and no need to make extreme interpretations of this statement)


i see

i view cardio as tool to burn fat

i do it when i know i am burning fat

morning and post workout

i dont know how many calories of fat i am burning, but i know i am burning fat

as for my caloric intake, i eat enough to fuel my body, not enough to have any store as fat, and i do so every few hours. (this is when dieting)... so i am eating pretty muc "maintanence calories"...but i just utlize the time periods in my day when i can burn fat to burn fat...
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 02:28:38 PM
i see

i view cardio as tool to burn fat

i do it when i know i am burning fat

morning and post workout

i dont know how many calories of fat i am burning, but i know i am burning fat

as for my caloric intake, i eat enough to fuel my body, not enough to have any store as fat, and i do so every few hours. (this is when dieting)... so i am eating pretty muc "maintanence calories"...but i just utlize the time periods in my day when i can burn fat to burn fat...

i wouldnt do cardio straight after a workout. thats dumb. after a workout you need to get protein and food in your system. thats the worst time you could do cardio...straight after a workout. (even if you drink  a protein shake in between)


as for what you do and dont do. doesnt interest me at all.  ;)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:30:53 PM
i wouldnt do cardio straight after a workout. thats dumb. after a workout you need to get protein and food in your system. thats the worst time you could do cardio...straight after a workout. (even if you drink  a protein shake in between)

post workou is arguably THE BEST time you can do cardio.

theres no reason to rush straight to a protein shake.

... the growth signals from training dont dissapate in 45 mins..  :D

and as long as your no training on AN EMPTY STOMACH (lol !) youll have protein digesting in your intestines while your doing the post workout cardio ... so "muscle wasting" is a total non issue
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:35:41 PM
i wouldnt do cardio straight after a workout. thats dumb. after a workout you need to get protein and food in your system. thats the worst time you could do cardio...straight after a workout. (even if you drink  a protein shake in between)


as for what you do and dont do. doesnt interest me at all.  ;)

What do you base than on?
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: benz on July 04, 2008, 02:36:13 PM
watch out, you are burning....


::) ::) ::) SKELETAL MUSCLE  ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:37:20 PM
watch out, you are burning....


::) ::) ::) SKELETAL MUSCLE  ::) ::) ::)
not familiar with the term, huh benz? its okay, english isnt your first language
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:40:37 PM
i wouldnt do cardio straight after a workout. thats dumb. after a workout you need to get protein and food in your system. thats the worst time you could do cardio...straight after a workout. (even if you drink  a protein shake in between)


as for what you do and dont do. doesnt interest me at all.  ;)

This is a reprint, both you and Candizzle need to read and comprehend this. Candizzle had seen this but I dont think he read it or understood it if he did.


Have you ever noticed the ultra-lean, heavily muscled physiques of sprint type athletes (100m runners, running backs, speed skaters) and wondered why your training hasn't produced such a result? After all, you train with weights 3-5x per week to build muscle. And you do a couple of moderate intensity cardio workouts to burn fat. So why don't you look better than these athletes? All they do is spend the bulk of their time running around a track. So why are their pecs, arms, and abs better defined than yours?

Well, there are a few answers to these questions. The first answer is, as you might have suspected, genetics. While many athletes would have you believe that their hours of hard training have made them into the athlete that they are today, the truth is that they did get a kick start from their chromosomes. You see, successful athletes are born with great potential for their sport. Then, while playing, as a kid, they began to self-select certain sports that they are good at. Add in a solid training regimen and their inherent potential shines.

But there's another side to the question. Although these athletes are born with an advantage, one that allows them to develop muscle and burn fat more easily than most, we can't underestimate the importance of their hard training. By targeting the muscle fibers that contribute to explosive power as well as training the anaerobic energy systems (ATP-PC system and glycolytic system), these athletes can't help but get bigger, stronger, and leaner. And if you apply the tricks I'm going to teach you in parts 1 and 2 of this article, you'll get bigger, stronger, and leaner too.

The Anaerobic Energy Systems

First, let's define our terms. If you're familiar with the term "aerobic", you'll know that it means "with oxygen". Therefore, aerobic energy systems are systems in the body in which energy (ATP) is generated from the consumption of oxygen. Simple enough.

Now, the opposite of "aerobic" is "anaerobic" which, by definition, means "without oxygen". Therefore, anaerobic energy systems are systems in the body in which energy (ATP) is generated from non-oxidative sources. Now this is where it gets hairy.

From the aforementioned definitions it would appear that these two energy systems were mutually exclusive; only one is active at a time. And in fact, once upon a time, in a land far, far away, researchers believed that no oxygen was used to make ATP during anaerobic exercise. Thus the name. However, current research shows that even during the most "anaerobic" of events, the aerobic system (with oxygen) is also activated (to a small extent).

With that said, it's important to realize what determines the ability of the body to go "with" or "without" oxygen. Well, the main two determinants are intensity and duration. Here's an illustration of these variables in action.

As I'm sure that you all know, if you're on the track and you start to run really fast, for the first few seconds you'll feel quite explosive. But after just 3-10 seconds, some of that explosiveness will subside and you'll slow down a bit. Still pushing hard though, yet getting progressively slower, about 15-20 seconds into the run, your muscles will begin to burn and you'll have to slow down even more. Finally, due to the burning and fatigue, you'll either have to work your way down to a slow paced jog or you'll have to stop altogether. Why does this occur, you might ask? Well, check out the following chart:

Anaerobic System

Time To: ATP-PC Glycolytic Aerobic System
Peak Power/System <1sec. 20sec. 2-3min.
Maintenance of Peak 10sec. 20sec. 3min.
Total Capacity  10-30sec. 1-2min. hours
Full Time For Recovery 3min. 1-2hr. 24hr.-48hr.
½ Time For Recovery 30sec. 15-20min. 5-6hr.

So what's the chart mean? Well, in it you'll find the actual values for the duration of each energy system (assuming that you work within the appropriate intensity domain). Now, I want you to notice something very specific in the chart above. If you're perceptive you'll have realized that I've not only listed the differences between the anaerobic systems and the aerobic systems, but I've also listed two types of anaerobic systems; ATP-PC and glycolytic. Let me explain the difference between the two.

The ATP-PC system is so-called because the provision of energy at very high intensities is dependent only on stored ATP already in the muscles and on the ability of the muscle's very limited amount of phosphocreatine (PC) to regenerate the ATP as it gets used up. Since these stores are limited, as you might imagine, as the ATP and the PC become depleted, the body has to slow down. Therefore, as you can see in the chart, this system has only a limited ability to generate ATP as the peak power of the system occurs at the 1-second mark and the system only has a capacity of 30 seconds. However, the rate of ATP generation is the fastest of the three and that's why this system is so important for high intensity exercise. When using the ATP-PC anaerobic energy system, you can generate a lot of power for a very short period of time. A 100m sprint is run within the ATP-PC domain.

The Glycolytic anaerobic energy system is so-called because the provision of energy from this system is dependent on muscle glycogen (carbohydrate stores). As you can see in the chart, the glycolytic system provides ATP generating power for longer than the ATP-PC system but it's ability to sustain high intensity exercise is also limited in that the total capacity of this system is 2 minutes.

So the bottom line is that in order to generate power during high intensity exercise, the anaerobic energy system first utilizes stored ATP, then PC, and then muscle glycogen. Well, hold on though! In looking at the substrates used during anaerobic work (ATP, PC, glycogen) you'll notice that fat is mysteriously missing from the list. Does that mean that I'm spending all this time writing about a form of exercise that burns no fat? No way! Listen up.

The interesting thing with anaerobic training is that although very little fat is burned during the short, high intensity efforts, quite a bit of fat is burned in the recovery time between efforts. Therefore by effectively training the anaerobic system (via interval workouts), you'll be dropping large amounts of fat as well.

The Benefits of Training The Anaerobic Energy Systems

While training the anaerobic energy systems is clearly be of benefit for enhancing athletic performance, there are many other non-athletic benefits as well:

1) This type of training is very calorie expensive. Short, 30-minute workouts can burn in excess of 400kcal during the exercise. While carbohydrates provide much of the fuel used during the high intensity interval, fat is also burned preferentially during the low intensity aerobic recovery period between the high intensity intervals.

2) The post exercise calorie expenditure is huge with this type of exercise. In some studies the resting metabolic rate remains elevated (by 15% or more) up to 24 hours after the workout. Interestingly, after exercise the body preferentially burns fat so this elevated metabolism is burning predominantly fat.

3) This exercise leads to an up regulation of aerobic, anaerobic, and ATP-PC enzyme activity. This means that all the energy systems of the body will operate at higher levels and become efficient at burning calories and generating energy.

4) The muscles used during this type of exercise will change their composition, shifting toward an increased percentage of fast twitch fibers. This increase in power-producing fast fibers comes at the expense of the weaker slow twitch ones. The shift is desired as the fast fibers grow more easily than the slow fibers.

5) There is an increase in specific muscle cell organelles (i.e. the sarcoplasmic reticulum). This leads to a better calcium balance and contractile ability.

6) There are short-lived increases in blood testosterone (38%) and growth hormone concentrations immediately after exercise. While this is debatable, these changes may contribute to an anabolic state in the body.


So What Are We Waiting For?

For the optimal application of anaerobic training in order to improve body composition, here is a model that I've found particularly successful. I have also used this program for off-season conditioning in my athletes.

Day 1 - 1.5 hours of Resistance Training (Upper Body - Pushing Type Exercises)
Day 2 - *30 minutes of Anaerobic Interval Training (Rowing)
Day 3 - 1.5 hours of Resistance Training (Lower Body)
Day 4 - *30 minutes of Anaerobic Interval Training (Cycling)
Day 5 - 1.5 hours of Resistance Training (Upper Body - Pulling Type Execises)
Day 6 - *30 minutes of Anaerobic Interval Training (Running)
Day 7 - Rest

*The anaerobic training activities are varied in order to activate different muscles from one workout to the next.

In structuring your interval days, here are some suggestions.

1) Before beginning such a program, be sure to experiment with high intensity exercise. If you have never tried such exercise before, you are in for a surprise - it's difficult.

2) Use a 1:3 ratio of exercise to recovery (i.e. for every 1 second you sprint, rest for 3 seconds).

3) To maximally activate your anaerobic glycolytic system, your exercise duration should be 30s to 60s. As a result your recovery will be between 90s and 180s.

4) Intensity is key to the success of this program. If your intensity is too low during the exercise, you will not realize the full training adaptation. If intensity is too high, you won't be able to complete the workout. You'll have to play around with the intensity until you get it right.

5) Your exercise intensity should be more than double that of your recovery intensity for 60s bouts and more than triple for 30s bouts. For example, if running at 11mph for 60s during your exercise interval, you should be running at approximately 5.5 mph for 180s during your recovery interval. Likewise if you're cycling at 350 watts for 30s during your exercise interval, your recovery should be at about 100 watts for 90s during your recovery interval.

6) When increasing the intensity from one workout to the next, be sure to increase the work. Do not increase the exercise duration or decrease the duration of the recovery. If the exercise to recovery ratio drops below 1:3, you'll lose power during your exercise interval and the activity becomes more aerobic.

Here is an example of these rules in action from one of my client records.

Day 2 - Rowing
5-minute warm-up followed by 7 sets of the following:
60 seconds at 250 watts*
180 seconds at 125 watts

Day 4 - Cycling
5-minute warm-up followed by 15 sets of the following:
30 seconds at 300 watts (level 12)*
90 seconds at 100 watts (level 2)

Day 6 - Running
5-minute warm-up followed by 7 sets of the following:
60 seconds at 11mph*
180 seconds at 5.5 mph

*If it's easy to maintain the same workout output for the full 30 minutes, increase the work (watts or speed) for the next workout. Increase the intensity to the point that it becomes difficult to complete all the sets at the prescribed intensity. Just like with resistance training, use progressive overload to continually improve.

So there you have it. A new model for improving body composition that's very effective and doesn't involve boring hours of your life spent on the cardio equipment. Give this program a try and the next time you're admiring the physique of a well-trained anaerobic athlete, it may be your own.



Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:41:48 PM
 your article is comparing sprinterrs to marathon runners joe.

both are doing high intensity cardio. of course the sprinter, who is doing shorter duration, is going to hold more muscle.

but compare a sprinter to a bodybuilder.


 ;)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:44:11 PM
Again;


The difference between cardio training and aerobic training

This is important to understand. Cardio refers to any exercise in which the heart and lungs are involved. This could be jogging, running, sprinting, swimming, circuit training etc. Quite simply – if you are elevating your heart rate and respiration rate, you are doing some form of cardiovascular work.

Aerobic training refers to a state in which the cardiovascular work is performed. Aerobic literally means ‘with oxygen’. It is a relatively low intensity state of exercise that can be maintained almost indefinitely (as long as oxygen is being supplied to the working muscles, in the required amounts – the exercise can be continued. This is aerobic training.

All aerobic training is cardiovascular training. Not all cardiovascular training is aerobic. Hopefully that makes sense.

 

Steady State Aerobics – why it hasn’t worked

 

Let’s think of all the reasons steady state aerobic training is supposed to burn fat.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)     <!--[endif]-->It burns calories. Good. I’ll buy that. How does it burn calories? Because the muscles are hard at work and demand extra oxygen to help them continue working. Hmmm. There are a ton of activities such as weight training, sprinting, sleeping, talking watching TV that ALSO burn calories by requiring work from the muscles. So no extra points for aerobic training.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2)     <!--[endif]-->The fat burning zone. Nope. Sorry – it doesn’t exist. The fat burning zone is a concept that the body burns a greater amount of fat at lower intensity aerobic exercise than it does at higher intensities. This is a misinterpretation. It’s true that the body burns a greater percentage of fat at lower intensities than at higher intensities, but taking this to its logical conclusion – the body will burn a greater amount of fat as a percentage lying on the couch than doing anything else right? And we know how good lying on the couch works for fat loss. It’s the “as a percentage” line. At lower intensities the body may burn 50% of the calories from fat, while at higher intensities it may only burn 35% of calories from fat. BUT at higher intensities you burn way more total calories, and more fat calories overall than you do at lower intensities. Think about a real world example – are sprinters (running 10-20s) fatter than marathon runners (2-2.5 hours of running). No. Actually sprinters carry less body fat than distance runners due to their muscle mass.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->3)     <!--[endif]-->Aerobics makes your body an “efficient fat burning machine”. True but this isn’t a desirable response. The ONLY tissue that burns fat in the body is muscle. Yes – aerobic training does demand work from the muscles, but not as much as other activities. Aerobic training doesn’t require the muscle tissue to stay around either. Aerobic training makes muscles more efficient at using fat (don’t get excited – if your car became more efficient at burning gas – you’d be using less of it).
So if muscle is the only tissue that burns fat, and aerobic training makes it smaller and more efficient at burning fat, then essentially you are creating a smaller, more efficient fat burning machine. That’s not effective.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->4)     <!--[endif]-->Aerobic training raises your metabolism. I’ll cover this in more detail later but the short answer is no it doesn’t. Metabolism is largely a function of how much muscle you carry. As aerobics does nothing to even maintain muscle, never mind build muscle, it will do nothing to contribute to raising your metabolism at rest. Sure, you’ll burn calories while you’re doing it, but will you burn any more at rest as a result of doing aerobics? No. And as you’ll find out later, you may actually burn less.

 

The adaptation conundrum

 

The body literally adapts to anything we attempt to do by responding in the reverse manner. Don’t drink any water? Your body tries to retain water. Does weight training build muscle? No it doesn’t. What actually occurs is a breakdown of muscle tissue and the body ADAPTS by building muscle.

So if you burn a ton of calories doing aerobic training, that same body adapts to aerobic exercise by slowing your metabolism and allowing your body to store more fat. Same body – same system.

The biggest problem with aerobic training is that you get better at it. In weight training, as you get better, you add more weight or more reps and there is literally no finish line. In aerobic training, the work required to run 5 miles will become less and less as you get fitter. So to continue to improve you either go further (do more work for the same amount of calories) or you run it faster. Going further kind of defeats the purpose. Is there much joy in running 40 mins to burn the calories you once burned in 30 mins? And going faster involves the same problem. Eventually, the new speed becomes too easy for you and you have to go more intense to get the same benefits. Now as I mentioned, there is no end point with weight training. However there is an end point with aerobic training. You will reach an intensity eventually that will be the end of the aerobic zone. Quite simply going any harder will send your body into the anaerobic zone. So at some point you’re not doing aerobics any more. So, if you have to stop doing it at some point to get the benefits you seek why not do anaerobic work to begin with?

 

Metabolism

Your metabolism or your metabolic rate is what determines how many calories you burn each day – or more importantly for the purposes of this book – how many you need to maintain your current weight. Your metabolism is quite simply how many calories you burn in a typical day. It is affected and controlled by your thyroid, and is largely a factor of your muscle mass. To break it down further – every pound of muscle you put on requires  calories per day to maintain. doesn’t take into account the calories burned in training to develop that muscle, or the calories burned in training to keep that muscle – these  calories are just the amount needed by that muscle to just sit there.

So in order to really get the athletic look we want to develop, the key is not just how many calories we can burn during exercise, it’s how many calories we can force the body to burn all the time. Raising your metabolism is the real key in long term fat loss and physique change.

 

 

Caloric expenditure

 

In order to lose body fat, you must burn off more calories than you consume. Despite the proliferation of diets- low carbohydrate, low fat, high protein, high carbohydrate etc this simple rule remains. I don’t want to talk about nutrition here as this is more than adequately covered in another chapter in this book, but suffice to say the caloric balance is still important.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard people say “I barely eat anything – I eat like a bird and I still gain weight”. Oh really. You are eating fewer calories than you need and your body is gaining weight? Impossible. This violates the law of thermodynamics. Usually it’s a case of not really being aware of how much you are actually eating. Because let’s face it – if your body was capable of producing body weight from nothing, then we better get you sent over to NASA or UNICEF immediately – with magical genes like yours, we might just be able to solve the Third World’s hunger problem.

Fat loss is all about caloric expenditure. We must burn more calories than we take in, and the real key to doing this, as mentioned before, is not aerobic training, which will burn calories while you are doing it, its anaerobic training, which burns calories while you are doing it AND increases the calories burned for hours afterwards. In the case of weight training, if we build muscle and keep it, that burns calories forever more. Even when you sleep!

 

The key with anaerobic training is what is known as EPOC. Anaerobic exercise burns a ton of calories while you are performing it. However, the metabolism remains elevated following this type exercise. This was, at one time, referred to as the oxygen debt, but is now referred to as the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). The recovery of the metabolic rate back to pre-exercise levels can require several minutes for light exercise (aerobic training), several hours for very heavy exercise (anaerobic cardio training), and up to 12 to 24 hours or even longer for prolonged, exhaustive exercise (interval training or circuit weight training).

 

The EPOC can add up to a substantial energy expenditure when totaled over the entire period of recovery. If the oxygen consumption following exercise remains elevated by an average of only 50 ml/min or 0.05 liter/min, this will amount to approximately 0.25 kcal/min or 15 kcal/hr. If the metabolism remains elevated for five hours, this would amount to an additional expenditure of 75 kcal that would not normally be included in the calculated total energy expenditure for that particular activity. This major source of energy expenditure, which occurs during recovery, but is directly the result of the exercise bout, is frequently ignored in most calculations of the energy cost of various activities. If the individual in this example exercised five days per week, he or she would have expended 375 kcal, or lost the equivalent of approximately 0.1 pounds of fat in one week, or 1.0 pounds in 10 weeks, just from the additional caloric expenditure during the recovery period alone. This is the key to maximizing the return on your exercise investment.

The next obvious idea is – if you trained the next day while your metabolism is still elevated, will we have an even higher return – is the effect accumulative? Is the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

Science has yet to give us an answer, however in the real world, I think so. I have seen amazing results with my clients using this exact protocol.

 

 

Interval training

 

So is there a better way of performing cardio workouts to prevent these adaptations, and rapidly improve fat loss results? Yes. The key is to perform what is known as interval training.

 

Interval training simply refers to a series of intense activity separated with short rest periods. Through using interval training you are able to exercise at a higher intensity without getting tired. In other words – because we alternate the periods of high intensity work, with periods of lower intensity work – you are able to do much more work in the same time period than you were before.

 

The beauty of this is as you improve, the work intervals can get harder and harder, and the recovery intervals can be shortened, or performed at a higher speed. In fact, there is no end in site, and no downside to interval training (other than it is really hard).

 

 



The AFTERBURN ENERGY SYSTEM Routine

 

This can be performed using any cardiovascular machine, and I suggest that you use them all. Multi-mode cardio (where you change the machine or type of activity regularly) has been shown in the research to be another more effective factor. So as a general guideline, don’t use the same cardio machine two workouts in a row.

 

The Routine:

 

Warm up for five minutes

 

Round:            Perform 1 minute as fast as you can (a level 9 or 10 intensity – on a scale of 1-10).

Recover at a moderate pace for two minutes (a level 6-7 intensity).

That’s one “round” – and it lasts three minutes

 

Cool down for five minutes

 

Now alongside the weight training and nutrition program included in this e-book – I also want you to perform the Afterburn Energy System Routine several times each week. These workouts can be done after your weight training workouts, later the same day or on separate days. What I don’t want you to do is to perform these routines BEFORE weight training. This will reduce the effectiveness of your program.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·        <!--[endif]-->Weeks One to Four:       Perform three rounds, three times per week.

The total cardio time will be 19 mins per workout including warm up and cool down.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·        <!--[endif]-->Weeks Five to Eight:      Perform four rounds, four times per week.

The total cardio time will be 22 mins per workout including warm up and cool down.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·        <!--[endif]-->Weeks Nine to Twelve:     Perform five rounds, four times per week.

The total cardio time will be 25 mins per workout including warm up and cool down.

 

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·        <!--[endif]-->Weeks Thirteen to Sixteen:        Perform six rounds, five times per week.

The total cardio time will be 28 mins per workout including warm up and cool down.

 

 

This type of cardio training performed as prescribed, typically results in a 1-2lb fat loss per week. So over a sixteen week period, depending on your dedication to nutrition, supplementation and your weight training routine, we are looking at a possible loss of at least 16-30 plus lbs of fat.

 

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 04, 2008, 02:46:33 PM
post workou is arguably THE BEST time you can do cardio.

theres no reason to rush straight to a protein shake.

... the growth signals from training dont dissapate in 45 mins..  :D

and as long as your no training on AN EMPTY STOMACH (lol !) youll have protein digesting in your intestines while your doing the post workout cardio ... so "muscle wasting" is a total non issue

lol you have no idea what your talking about.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:49:47 PM
 walking on a treadmill doesnt boost metabolic rate after you get off a treadmill

to you, coach, this is a NEGATIVE

to me, candidizzle, this is a POSITIVE

do you know why sprinting enhances metabolic rate  post workout?

because it requires RECOVERY

i would like to save all my RECOOPERATIVE abilities for recovering from my RESISTANCE TRAINING..
not from my cardio

cardio= burn fat
training=enhance metabolism, grow muscle
diet= week to week goal of building muscle or losing fat
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:50:18 PM
your article is comparing sprinterrs to marathon runners joe.

both are doing high intensity cardio. of course the sprinter, who is doing shorter duration, is going to hold more muscle.

but compare a sprinter to a bodybuilder.


 ;)

No it's just an example between sprinters and marathon runner or endurance athletes.

Ok, lets quickly compare a sprinter to a bodybuilder. Bodybuilder fast twitch, sprinter fast twitch, sprinter, interval training or HIIT (fast twitch) Bodybuilder aerobic (slow twitch).

Educated commonsense would tell you to never train fast twitch with slow twitch.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:52:09 PM
lol you have no idea what your talking about.


Technically he's correct. Again, what do base this on if it's wrong?
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:52:29 PM
lol you have no idea what your talking about.

fat mobilization is going to be highest post training... your blod volume will be higher, your glycogen will be lower, your heart rate will be up, and form your first step on the treadmille youll be mobolizing fat


its not ME who has no idea what they are talking about.. SLAVE  ;D
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 02:53:45 PM
walking on a treadmill doesnt boost metabolic rate after you get off a treadmill

to you, coach, this is a NEGATIVE

to me, candidizzle, this is a POSITIVE

do you know why sprinting enhances metabolic rate  post workout?

because it requires RECOVERY

i would like to save all my RECOOPERATIVE abilities for recovering from my RESISTANCE TRAINING..
not from my cardio

cardio= burn fat
training=enhance metabolism, grow muscle
diet= week to week goal of building muscle or losing fat

Read the above articles. I don't think you did.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 02:56:42 PM
Read the above articles. I don't think you did.
i dont want my cardio to in any way get in the way of any of my muscle development and growth

sprinting is most definitely going to DIRECTLY interfere with leg growth, and indirectly im sure its gonna hurt the rets of my muscles growth and recovery as well
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: benz on July 04, 2008, 04:25:03 PM
even joebrother is having fun with our PHD PT MASTER OF ARTS CANDIJIZZLE, awesome

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 07:14:38 PM
Dizzle, did you just say "directly interfere with leg development"?

Good God boy where do you come with this shit??
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: benz on July 04, 2008, 07:17:50 PM
Dizzle, did you just say "directly interfere with leg development"?

Good God boy where do you come with this shit??

He's a PT, just like you, difference is that he got his diploma by email and you got it in a classroom, so you can figure now  why his knowledge is so superior.  ;)

SKELETAL MUSCLE  ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 09:35:15 PM
Dizzle, did you just say "directly interfere with leg development"?

Good God boy where do you come with this shit??
hell yeah it will

you dont think doing sprints is going to hinder leg development if you are already training quads hams and calves to the point of total exhaustion ?

..if your routine calls for legs to be trained every 6 days... and that is just rigth to allow for full recovery...and all the sudden on day 3 every cycle you are throwing SPRINTS...you will be overtraining your legs... you wont be growing as fast

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: benz on July 04, 2008, 09:40:15 PM
hell yeah it will

you dont think doing sprints is going to hinder leg development if you are already training quads hams and calves to the point of total exhaustion ?

..if your routine calls for legs to be trained every 6 days... and that is just rigth to allow for full recovery...and all the sudden on day 3 every cycle you are throwing SPRINTS...you will be overtraining your legs... you wont be growing as fast




::) ::) ::) burning skeletal muscle  ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 04, 2008, 09:43:50 PM

::) ::) ::) burning skeletal muscle  ::) ::) ::)
;)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 10:40:45 PM
hell yeah it will

you dont think doing sprints is going to hinder leg development if you are already training quads hams and calves to the point of total exhaustion ?

..if your routine calls for legs to be trained every 6 days... and that is just rigth to allow for full recovery...and all the sudden on day 3 every cycle you are throwing SPRINTS...you will be overtraining your legs... you wont be growing as fast



Oh.........my........... ...God :-[
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: benz on July 04, 2008, 10:41:40 PM
skeletal muscle is having a meltdown :(
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 04, 2008, 10:51:15 PM
skeletal muscle is having a meltdown :(


LOL!!
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Jeffro on July 05, 2008, 12:39:27 AM
skeletal muscle is having a meltdown :(
;D
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: newmom on July 05, 2008, 05:31:52 AM
I just drink my cup of coffee while driving to the gym at 4:45am. My cardio workout is up to an hour an half
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 05:34:15 AM
Technically he's correct. Again, what do base this on if it's wrong?

common sense and more. after a workout your 'catabolic' until you get protein into you system. and if your looking for hypertrophy why would you wait before you eat just to burn a few grams of fat?

your guys arent looking at the big picture.

again you have the info but you cant apply it correctly.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 05:40:38 AM
fat mobilization is going to be highest post training... your blod volume will be higher, your glycogen will be lower, your heart rate will be up, and form your first step on the treadmille youll be mobolizing fat


its not ME who has no idea what they are talking about.. SLAVE  ;D

so what? all that has to be balanced vs hypertrophy. why wait before you eat just to burn a few extra grams of fat?  when the most important matter is a caloric deficit at the end of the day? (and that you eat as soon after a workout as possible)

like i said before. what substrate your burning when doing cardio is secondary to achieving a caloric deficit.

your correct fat mobilization is gonna be higher, but you lack the ability to look at the big picture. thats what happens when you read but cant apply the info you have.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 05:44:05 AM
so my advice is  to put the cardio at any other time than around your workouts.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 05:53:36 AM
also if the cardio is too intensive after a workout gene expression associated with muscle hypertrophy may be fucked up. (so that in part kills your argument that you should do HIIT cardio after your workouts..if that was what you were saying coach. i didnt read your giant post yet)

if your doing high intensive cardio AMPk activation inhibits mTOR whichs is bad news for the muscle growth signal. in other words doing HIIT after a workout is the worst possible time to do it.

dont forget that your sending an 'endurance type signal' to skeletal muscle after you workout (which is a hypertrophy signal) if you do high intensive cardio after a workout. this problem only exists if the cadio is high intensity enough to recruit type II msucle fibers. fast walking wont do this tho.

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006 Nov;38(11):1939-44.

'The classic work of Hickson demonstrated that training for both strength and endurance at the same time results in less adaptation compared with training for either one alone: this has been described as the concurrent training effect. Generally, resistance exercise results in an increase in muscle mass, and endurance exercise results in an increase in muscle capillary density, mitochondrial protein, fatty acid-oxidation enzymes, and more metabolically efficient forms of contractile and regulatory proteins. In the 25 yr since Hickson's initial description, there have been a number of important advances in the understanding of the molecular regulation of muscle's adaptation to exercise that may enable explanation of this phenomenon at the molecular level. As will be described in depth in the following four papers, two serine/threonine protein kinases in particular play a particularly important role in this process. Protein kinase B/Akt can both activate protein synthesis and decrease protein breakdown, thus leading to hypertrophy, and AMP-activated protein kinase can increase mitochondrial protein, glucose transport, and a number of other factors that result in an endurance phenotype. Not only are PKB and AMPK central to the generation of the resistance and endurance phenotypes, they also block each other's downstream signaling. The consequence of these interactions is a direct molecular blockade hindering the development of the concurrent training phenotype. A better understanding of the activation of these molecular pathways after exercise and how they interact will allow development of better training programs to maximize both strength and endurance.'

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 06:44:04 AM
so slaveboy has taught you the following:

(1)no form of exercise will give  increase in 24-hour fat oxidation.

(2) dont do cardio after you workout (do it any other time....except just before and after your workouts)

(3) burning fat or carbs during cardio doesnt matter that much. what matters is that cardio burns calories and thus helps you to achieve a caloric deficit = which is what determines fatloss at the end of the day. this point is related to point (1).

(4) too much HIIT is shit, for a bodybuilder who wants to keep his muscle. i suggest a bodybuilder does mostly low intensity cardio. do 0-2 HIIT sessions per week. why is HIIT is shit?  HIIT burns more calories per time unit compared to low intensity cardio...true! but it sends signals that conflict with musclebuilding and it drains you of energy alot more than low intensity cardio does. when your dieting you want to save as much energy for you workouts as possible inorder to fight strength losses, which you have to do inorder to fight muscle loss . also HIIT EPOC is overrated.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 06:57:20 AM
point 1 (and point 3) supporting studies:

Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004 Jun;28(6):759-65.

OBJECTIVE: Exercise has been proposed as a tool for the prevention of obesity. Apart from an effect on energy expenditure, in particular low-intensity (LI) exercise might also influence substrate metabolism in favour of fat oxidation. It is however unclear what is the most beneficial exercise regime for obese people. We therefore studied the effect of either high-intensity (HI) or LI exercise on 24 h energy expenditure (24 h EE) and substrate metabolism. METHODS: Eight healthy obese male volunteers (age: 38+/-1 y, BMI: 31+/-1 kg/m(2), W(max): 235+/-16 W) stayed in the respiration chamber for two nights and the day in-between. In the chamber they cycled either at a HI (three times 30 min in a interval protocol (2.5 min 80/50% W(max))) or LI (three times 60 min continuously at 38% W(max)) protocol with an equicaloric energy expenditure. In the chamber subjects were fed in energy balance (37/48/15% of energy as fat/carbohydrate/protein). RESULTS: The 24 h EE was not significantly different between protocols. In both protocols, sleeping metabolic rate (SMR) was elevated after the exercise (average+6.7%). The 24 h respiratory quotient (24 h RQ) was not different between protocols. During exercise, RQ was higher in the HI compared to the LI protocol (0.93 vs 0.91 resp., P<0.05), whereas in the postexercise period RQ tended to be lower in the HI compared to the LI protocol (P=0.06). CONCLUSION: 24 h EE is not differently affected by HI or LI exercise in obese men. Similarly, the differences in HI and LI exercise, RQ are compensated postexercise leading to similar substrate oxidation patterns over 24 h independently of the level of exercise intensity.

Strength Cond Res. 2005 Feb;19(1):61-6.

Seven nonobese adult females (40 +/- 8 years) were studied in a room calorimeter on a day that resistance exercise (REX) was performed (4 sets of 10 exercises) and on a nonexercise control day (CON). Twenty-four-hour energy expenditure (EE) on the REX day (mean +/- SD, 2,328 +/- 327 kcal.d(-1)) was greater than CON (2,001 +/- 369 kcal.d(-1), p < 0.001). The net increase in EE during and immediately after (30 minutes) exercise represented 76 +/- 12% of the total increase in 24-hour EE. Twenty four-hour RQ on the REX day (0.86 +/- 0.06) did not differ from CON (0.87 +/- 0.02). Twenty four-hour carbohydrate oxidation was elevated on the REX day, but 24-hour fat and protein oxidation were not different. Thus, in women, the increase in EE due to resistance exercise is largely seen during and immediately after the exercise. The increased energy demand is met by increased carbohydrate oxidation, with no increase in 24-hour fat oxidation.

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002 Nov;34(11):1793-800.

BACKGROUND: Whether resistance exercise is as effective as aerobic exercise for body-weight management is debated. PURPOSE: To compare 24-h energy expenditure (EE) and macronutrient oxidation elicited by comparable bouts of stationary cycling (BK) and weightlifting (WTS). METHODS: 24-h EE and macronutrient oxidation were measured in 10 nonobese male subjects on three occasions using whole-room indirect calorimetry. BK and WTS days were compared with a nonexercise control day (Con). RESULTS: During BK, subjects exercised for 49 +/- 7 min (mean +/- SEM) at 70% of OV(2max) and expended 546 +/- 16 kcal. During WTS, subjects performed a 70-min circuit consisting of four sets of 10 different exercises at 70% of exercise-specific 1-repetition maximum and expended 448 +/- 21 kcal (P < 0.001 vs BK). 24-h EE on BK and WTS days (2,787 +/- 76 kcal x d(-1), 2,730 +/- 106 kcal x d(-1), respectively, P > 0.05) was elevated compared with Con (2,260 +/- 96 kcal x d(-1), P < 0.001), but 24-h respiratory exchange ratio (RER) was not different. 24-h carbohydrate oxidation was significantly elevated on the exercise days (BK = 370 +/- 18 g x d(-1), WTS = 349 +/- 23 g x d(-1), P > 0.05) compared with Con (249 +/- 29 g x d(-1), P = 0.04). 24-h fat and protein oxidation were the same on BK, WTS, and Con days. EE and macronutrient oxidation in the periods after exercise also did not differ across conditions. CONCLUSION: In men, resistance exercise has a similar effect on 24-h EE and macronutrient oxidation as a comparable bout of aerobic exercise. Neither exercise produced an increase in 24-h fat oxidation above that observed on a nonexercise control day.



Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:02:23 AM
J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;92(3):1045-52.

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of exercise at different intensities on 24-h energy expenditure (EE) and substrate oxidation. Sixteen adults (8 men and 8 women) were studied on three occasions [sedentary day (Con), a low-intensity exercise day (LI; 400 kcal at 40% of maximal oxygen consumption) and a high-intensity exercise day (HI; 400 kcal at 70% of maximal oxygen consumption)] by using whole room indirect calorimetry. Both 24-h EE and carbohydrate oxidation were significantly elevated on the exercise days (Con < LI = HI), but 24-h fat oxidation was not different across conditions. Muscle enzymatic profile was not consistently related to 24-h fat or carbohydrate oxidation. With further analysis, it was found that, compared with men, women sustained slightly higher rates of 24-h fat oxidation (mg x kg FFM(-1) x min(-1)) and had a muscle enzymatic profile favoring fat oxidation. It is concluded that exercise intensity has no effect on 24-h EE or nutrient oxidation. Additionally, it appears that women may sustain slightly greater 24-h fat oxidation rates during waking and active periods of the day.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:05:05 AM
Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1996 Sep;28(9):1138-43

The purpose of this study was to determine: 1) the reliability of 24-h respiratory calorimetry measurements, and 2) the effects of low- versus high-intensity exercise on energy expenditure (EE) and substrate oxidation over a 24-h period. Eight women (age 28 +/- 4.3 yr) were measured for body composition, maximal oxygen consumption while cycling, and EE in three, 24-h calorimeter tests, with identical work output but differing intensity during a 60-min exercise session. Low-intensity (LI) exercise involved continuous cycling at 50% VO2max; whereas high-intensity (HI) exercise involved interval cycling (2 min exercise/recovery) at 100% VO2max. Subjects were randomly assigned to the first two tests at LI or HI, with the third test at the alternate intensity. No differences in EE or respiratory quotient (RQ) during rest, sleep, exercise, or over the 24 h were found between the first two tests (C.V. = 6.0%), demonstrating the reliability of the measurements. The HI protocol elicited significantly higher EE than LI during rest, exercise, and over 24 h, whereas sleeping EE approached significance. No significant differences in RQ during rest, sleep, or over 24 h were found, but 24-h lipid and carbohydrate oxidation were similar in the two protocols. The HI exercise RQ was significantly higher than LI. These findings demonstrated higher 24-h EE in the HI than LI protocol, but similar 24-h substrate oxidation rates.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:07:59 AM
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 1999 Dec;23(12):1223-32.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of exercise training and dietary macronutrient composition on 24 h substrate oxidation in male, obese subjects. DESIGN: A 16 month exercise intervention study was executed, including a weight loss period with a very low energy diet (VLED) for 2 months at the start of the study. SUBJECTS: Twelve male, obese subjects (age 36.3+/-5.1 y; body weight 94.6+/-13.9 kg; body mass index, BMI 30.8+/-3.0 kg/m2) and in an additional study 15 lean, well-trained subjects (age 36.2+/-7.2 y; body weight 72.2+/-5.9 kg; BMI 22.3+/-1.7 kg/m2) participated. MEASUREMENTS: Substrate oxidation was measured during a standardized 36 h stay in the respiration chamber at the start of the study (0 months), and at 4, 10 and 16 months. In the respiration chamber subjects were randomly assigned to a high-fat (Hi.F) diet (60% of energy (En%) fat) or a reduced-fat (Red.F) diet (30 En% fat). The well-trained group was measured once in the respiration chamber for 36 h according to the same protocol. RESULTS: At any time point, independent of the diet consumed, the 24 h carbohydrate (CHO) balances in the chamber were mostly negative (means ranging from +31 to -98 g/d) and the fat balances mostly positive (means ranging from -26 to +38 g/d) for the obese a well as for the lean, well-trained group. For both diets an increased shortage of 70 g of CHO was found at 16 months compared with 4 months, and an increase in fat balance of 33 g during the same time period in the obese subjects, indicating that CHO oxidation had increased with 12 months endurance training. In the well-trained group the 24h CHO balance was even more negative for both types of diet (-103 to -185 g/d for the Red.F and Hi.F diet, respectively) under similar conditions compared with the trained obese group. CONCLUSION: The changes in 24 h substrate utilization in the obese, as well as in the well-trained group, suggest that endurance training increased the reliance on carbohydrate oxidation and therefore did not increase 24 fat oxidation.


 :D
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:26:38 AM
intensive cardio negatively impacts muscle growth:

Exercise Physiology: Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance. McArdle, Katch & Katch. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6th edition 2006.

"Intense aerobic training should not coincide with resistance training to increase muscle mass.

More than likely, the added energy (and perhaps protein) demands of concurrent resistance and aerobic exercise training impose a limit on muscle growth and responsiveness to resistance training.

These considerations should not deter those who desire a well-rounded conditioning program that offers the specific fitness and health from both training modes. "

BUT

im not saying dont do cardio...because if your trying to lose fat achieving a caloric deficit is easier if you do cardio+eat less. and lets not forget the health benefits from doing cardio.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 07:27:19 AM
after a workout your 'catabolic' until you get protein into you system.

so the food i ate all day leading up to my workout, my pre workout meal, and my pre workout shake which is half whey half casein... all of that is gone and vanished and i am "catabolic" as you say Post workout??  :'(  :'(  :'(  what happened to all my food and protein shakes , slave ???   :-[

OH i am distraught  :-\
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:30:58 AM
so the food i ate all day leading up to my workout, my pre workout meal, and my pre workout shake which is half whey half casein... all of that is gone and vanished and i am "catabolic" as you say Post workout??  :'(  :'(  :'(  what happened to all my food and protein shakes , slave ???   :-[

OH i am distraught  :-\

not at all. but you your will be 'catabolic' (sloppy expression as there is more to it)  until you eat after a workout. and besides why do cardio after a workout? when you can do it at any other time. use your brain  ;D  and if you read what i have posted there are other factors, which you avoid because im right.

if your obsessed with burning fat during cardio, do it in the morning (altho as i have proven it doesnt matter  :D   )

your all details, but you cant put together the complete puzzle.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 07:32:31 AM
but you your will be catabolic until you eat after a workout.
   ;D

ookkkkkaaaaayyyyyyy slave

you do your thing

ill do mine

see you at the finish line  ;)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:34:13 AM
   ;D

ookkkkkaaaaayyyyyyy slave

you do your thing

ill do mine

see you at the finish line  ;)

haha picking one part of everything i have written. you have been destroyed as all can see  :-*
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 07:35:36 AM
haha picking one part of everything i have written. you have been destroyed as all can see  :-*
if thats what you think, awesome !   :D

myself, and the rest of the bodybuilding community and ifbb atheletes, we will all do it the way we always have and always will.

you can do it your way and rush off to your whey
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:36:42 AM
i was thinking of discussing HIIT in this thread too. but i will leave it to another thread. (other than what i have already said)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:39:02 AM
if thats what you think, awesome !   :D

myself, and the rest of the bodybuilding community and ifbb atheletes, we will all do it the way we always have and always will.

you can do it your way and rush off to your whey

i prefer real food.

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 07:44:49 AM
i prefer real food.


switching gears from cardio to nutrition...

if you catabolic immidietly post workout, regardless of what youve eaten pre workout, and you go straight to solid food, regardless of your source of protein (egg whites, chicken, beef, turkey, ham, fish )..its going to take over an hour for any of those amino acids to make it to the blood stream.   so, if your body, slave, is always catabolic after a workout, then by eating solid food your not out of your catabolic state for AT LEAST one hours time.

so, while you are waiting aroudn for an hour, ill do 435 mins cardio, then drink my whey (which enters the blood stream at an unprecedent 10-15 minutes time), and ill be out of my catabolic state as soon if not soner than YOU .

 ;D


 but in reality, my body isnt catabolic post workout, so i don have to worry about this. but for somereason your body always is, so i would think this info is more valuable to you than to I
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:45:52 AM
back to morning cardio:

no training increases fat oxidation over a 24 hour period compared to a 'rest day'. what matters at the end is energi in vs energy out (not saying that its all that matters, as some fundamentalists will think). if you use more carbs during the activity you will use more fat the rest of the day. if you use more fat during the activity  the fatburning will decrease the rest of the day.

cardio in the fasted state will increase fatburning during the activity, but in such cases it will decrease later so that the fat oxidation over a 24 hour period is equal to what it would have been if the activity was done postprandially. (after eating)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 07:50:30 AM
back to morning cardio:     ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D   ;D

no training increases fat oxidation over a 24 hour period compared to a 'rest day'. what matters at the end is energi in vs energy out (not saying that its all that matters, as some fundamentalists will think). if you use more carbs during the activity you will use more fat the rest of the day. if you use more fat during the activity  the fatburning will decrease the rest of the day.

cardio in the fasted state will increase fatburning during the activity, but in such cases it will decrease later so that the fat oxidation over a 24 hour period is equal to what it would have been if the activity was done postprandially. (after eating)

slave.... cardio = burns fat , food = builds muscle... dont eat so much that any of it contributes to adipose,  but eat enought o grow on... and consistantly make use of the times of day when fat burning is FAT burning, not FOOD burning, and you will get leaner leaner leaner while growing bigger bigger bigger
 ;)




 
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 07:53:41 AM
slave.... cardio = burns fat , food = builds muscle... dont eat so much that any of it contributes to adipose,  but eat enought o grow on... and consistantly make use of the times of day when fat burning is FAT burning, not FOOD burning, and you will get leaner leaner leaner while growing bigger bigger bigger
 ;)




 

pseudo bs as i have proved. your not gonna grow and get leaner at the same time (unless your a total newbie and or very fat...and even then it will be for just a short period of time....OR if your on drugs) altho its physicologically possible. besides i was discussing morning cardio but you seem to like to change subjects because you have been proven wrong.

most people who try to do both will end up nowhere.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 08:05:25 AM
pseudo bs as i have proved. your not gonna grow and get leaner at the same time (unless your a total newbie and or very fat...and even then it will be for just a short period of time....OR if your on drugs) altho its physicologically possible. besides i was discussing morning cardio but you seem to like to change subjects because you have been proven wrong.

most people who try to do both will end up nowhere.
one more time

eat enough to grow, dont eat enough to contribute to fat stores
do cardio when its fat burning, not FOOD burning

and then your growing, and getting leaner

QUITE simple

or, eat to grow, eat slightly more than what you can use, contribute a small amount to fat stores every meal
then do cardio when its fat burning, not food burning, and now your growing BIG TIME, but remaining the same bf%

 ;)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 08:12:50 AM
one more time

eat enough to grow, dont eat enough to contribute to fat stores
do cardio when its fat burning, not FOOD burning

and then your growing, and getting leaner

QUITE simple

or, eat to grow, eat slightly more than what you can use, contribute a small amount to fat stores every meal
then do cardio when its fat burning, not food burning, and now your growing BIG TIME, but remaining the same bf%

 ;)

nope. read my previous post.

if you wanna do some kind of cyclical approach you could bulk for 8 weeks and diet for 4 weeks or some such. but trying to do it at the 'same time' will not work for most people, specially if your not using drugs.

but hey what do you know, at 19 your already on drugs. congratulations.  ;D

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 08:19:21 AM
 ummmmm actuially, "YES"

your gay ass study doesnt address this issue at all.

and oh yea, where did you get that study ? did you do it yourself? haha. no i guarantee you got that off "GOOGLE"...   ;D.. and you always trying to tell ME i am ssome kind og "google"er..  ;D  ;D   ;D

slave its most obvious you got zero experience real world in any of this

why dont you go find the guy in your gym with the best physique and as him to explain this stuff to you..   
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 08:22:55 AM
ummmmm actuially, "YES"

your gay ass study doesnt address this issue at all.

and oh yea, where did you get that study ? did you do it yourself? haha. no i guarantee you got that off "GOOGLE"...   ;D.. and you always trying to tell ME i am ssome kind og "google"er..  ;D  ;D   ;D

slave its most obvious you got zero experience real world in any of this

why dont you go find the guy in your gym with the best physique and as him to explain this stuff to you..   

lol who are you to talk about experience? i have plenty real life experience. real life experience says that most people wont be losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time.

and arent you always asking for studies? and when i supply them and disprove your pseudo bs, they arent valid anymore ehh?

besides you dont understand them, because your cant paste and copy someone elses interpretation of them. so you avoid the issue at hand  :D

Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 08:30:13 AM
 OKAY, even simpler for you

i know you like the whole non sense of 'calories in verse calories out".. so ill make this super easy


you base metabolic rate is 3k cal per day. with weight lifting ncluding its 35k cal per day
on a trainign day you eat 4k cals.  that means you have stored 500 cals as body fat.
now on that same day, before your day started, you got up and took a 45 minute walk that burnt off 200 calories. since it was first thing in the morning,and you hadnt eaten, it was 200 cals of body fat.
after weightlifting that day, you took another 45 miinute walk, and this time it burnt 400 cal, since it was post training and your heart rate was up and glycogen was depleted and you had caffiene in your system.  since it was post training, all the 400 cals came from body fat.

so on this day, although at you 6 meals you had a combined fat storeage of 500 cals, you also burnt off 600 cals of body fat  by walking two times 45 minutes each, at times of the day where it didnt effect recovery didnt effect food intake didnt effect base metabolism...all it did was mobilize body fat.

so, at the end of this day you stored 500 calories as body fat, and you burnt off 600 calories as body fat. 

end of the day = 100 calories body fat defecit.

you lost bod fat!

BUT, since you were over eating at every meal, you were growing muscle all day long as well.

so you gained muscle, but lost fat

not at the same time ! but within the same day.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 08:34:49 AM
OKAY, even simpler for you

i know you like the whole non sense of 'calories in verse calories out".. so ill make this super easy


you base metabolic rate is 3k cal per day. with weight lifting ncluding its 35k cal per day
on a trainign day you eat 4k cals.  that means you have stored 500 cals as body fat.
now on that same day, before your day started, you got up and took a 45 minute walk that burnt off 200 calories. since it was first thing in the morning,and you hadnt eaten, it was 200 cals of body fat.
after weightlifting that day, you took another 45 miinute walk, and this time it burnt 400 cal, since it was post training and your heart rate was up and glycogen was depleted and you had caffiene in your system.  since it was post training, all the 400 cals came from body fat.

so on this day, although at you 6 meals you had a combined fat storeage of 500 cals, you also burnt off 600 cals of body fat  by walking two times 45 minutes each, at times of the day where it didnt effect recovery didnt effect food intake didnt effect base metabolism...all it did was mobilize body fat.

so, at the end of this day you stored 500 calories as body fat, and you burnt off 600 calories as body fat. 

end of the day = 100 calories body fat defecit.

you lost bod fat!

BUT, since you were over eating at every meal, you were growing muscle all day long as well.

so you gained muscle, but lost fat

not at the same time ! but within the same day.

im not even reading that. i have answered questions about morning cardio and proved that the substrate your burn (fat or 'carbs') during the cardio doesnt really matter as long as you achieve a caloric deficit (which doesnt mean that calories in vs calories out is always a simple case)

end of story. i have supplied proof in the form of several studies. you have provided nothing but pseudo bs.

hope this helps
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 08:37:34 AM
 haha.

okay slave.

i said it once i say it again

you do your thing

ill do mine

see you at the finish line
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 08:47:49 AM
haha.

okay slave.

i said it once i say it again

you do your thing

ill do mine

see you at the finish line

im not writing for you, your to dumb to understand what i have written or to interpret the studies i have posted.  :D

but some people will read the studies i posted and what i have written, process it in their brains and realize it makes sense.

let me summarize again:

'no training increases fat oxidation over a 24 hour period compared to a 'rest day'. what matters at the end is energi in vs energy out (not saying that its all that matters, as some fundamentalists will think). if you use more carbs during the activity you will use more fat the rest of the day. if you use more fat during the activity  the fatburning will decrease the rest of the day.

cardio in the fasted state will increase fatburning during the activity, but in such cases it will decrease later so that the fat oxidation over a 24 hour period is equal to what it would have been if the activity was done postprandially. (after eating)'

= do the cardio whenever you want**, it doesnt matter if your burn fat during the cardio or not. so you can still do the morning cardio if you like it, but if you hate waking up early just to do cardio you can stop doing it and do your cardio at some other time.

**except just before and just after a workout. when you should be eating and capitalizing on the growth signal that working out gives you.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: candidizzle on July 05, 2008, 02:53:23 PM
 LOL

slave... "LOL" is all i got for you...

 like you said, the people reading will read what is written and will be able to rocess the info on their own

as for you, i could care less how your progress, or should i say, how you digress..  ;D
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 05, 2008, 03:24:14 PM
Slaveboy,

How about we do this. You get yourself or someone you train and I'll do the same. We do a three month study, you get your experts and I will get mine 2 which have written published case studies in various sports and med journals. You can set the bet, of course me be willing to bet you're wrong. After over 20 years working with athletes and bodybuilders, I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

Not even commonsense should tell you long sustained cardio you will lose mass. (Take the example of the sprinter vs. the Marathon or endurance athlete).
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: slaveboy1980 on July 05, 2008, 04:34:49 PM
Slaveboy,

How about we do this. You get yourself or someone you train and I'll do the same. We do a three month study, you get your experts and I will get mine 2 which have written published case studies in various sports and med journals. You can set the bet, of course me be willing to bet you're wrong. After over 20 years working with athletes and bodybuilders, I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

Not even commonsense should tell you long sustained cardio you will lose mass. (Take the example of the sprinter vs. the Marathon or endurance athlete).


tell me exactly where im wrong and ill comment. i dont understand your last comment. clarify.

like i said before i didnt read your long post so i dont know your stance on all the topics i have mentioned. give me a summary.

other than that, you were asking for studies to back what i was saying, and i provided them and now you try to wiggle out.

like i said before, i know exactly what im talking about. and i have the brains to interpret the studies i read. not only that, i have discussed this subject with some really smart sports nutrition guys and they agree with me.

please try to refute what i have written, specially about morning cardio. (as that was the topic of this thread)..

i have in this thread partly destroyed the morning cardio myth (it does burn more fat...but it doesnt really matter in the end as long as you achieve a caloric deficit)

remember i was mainly talking in reference to morning cardio and have no idea what other things you discussed with other people.


Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: sculpture on July 15, 2008, 08:32:52 AM
If time is a constraint, combining cardio with weights in one session can be utilised.

Personally speaking i acheived better results by doing cardio at intervals during my weights workout.

5 mins fast running on a treadmill between exercises.

Lets say im performing 6 exercises thats 25 mins of cardio spliced in the workout.

Id much rather do this than tack on 25 mins AFTER the whole workout where time is at a premium in regards to shuttling carbs and proteins in to muscles.

Of course i may be wrong.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Overload on July 15, 2008, 08:44:39 AM
I prefer sex for morning cardio.

That is all i have to add.

8)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: pumpster on July 15, 2008, 08:59:15 AM
I prefer sex for morning cardio.

That is all i have to add.

8)

Do you alternate hands?
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: Overload on July 15, 2008, 09:47:37 AM
Do you alternate hands?

Nope.

I use a false grip.


8)
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: The Coach on July 15, 2008, 09:57:14 AM
Sculpture, nothing wrong with what you are doing. Bodyfat will be kept low and you'll have great conditioning at the same time.
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: calfzilla on July 15, 2008, 10:03:24 AM
If time is a constraint, combining cardio with weights in one session can be utilised.

Personally speaking i acheived better results by doing cardio at intervals during my weights workout.

5 mins fast running on a treadmill between exercises.

Lets say im performing 6 exercises thats 25 mins of cardio spliced in the workout.

Id much rather do this than tack on 25 mins AFTER the whole workout where time is at a premium in regards to shuttling carbs and proteins in to muscles.

Of course i may be wrong.

Brutal loss of intensity...at least it would be for me. 
Title: Re: Morning cardio
Post by: sculpture on July 15, 2008, 11:46:40 AM
Thats what i thought until i did it.

Try it.

Extra time between exercise means you can handle more/as much weight as normal.