Long distance runners do little-to-no weight training which is why they're skinny .... any extra weight for a marathoner is an inhibiter. Any long distance athlete wants the least amount of fat and muscle as necessary. That's why sprinters and marathoners look so different - additionally, elite marathoners and world class sprinters have genetically much different body types.
Check out your local marathon sometime - there are some very ripped amateurs running.... they're just not the ones winning running a sub 2:30.
Check out your local marathon sometime - there are some very ripped amateurs running.... they're just not the ones winning running a sub 2:30.
The idiocy here is absolutely amazing. POWs have less fat than anyone. If you want to improve at endurance events, do that; if you want to improve at strength or power events, do those. If you want to do both, that's fine, too (just that improvements will come a lot slower)
Beyond that, the only important thing is consistency. Doing something that might not be perfectly effecient is still far better than searching for whatever is the absolute best
Beyond that, the only important thing is consistency. Doing something that might not be perfectly effecient is still far better than searching for whatever is the absolute best
dude, if your goal is to START to get in shape, then focus on that.
set a time table: 2 months from now I'll have my body ready to start working out
set a routine: every monday and weds I'll go to the gym and do something
set a program: mondays I'll ride a bike and weds I'll do a total body workout with weights
set up rules: I'll TRY to eat a little better, and will do a little more with each workout.
2 weeks before the end of the two months I'll evaluate how I am doing and set another goal, until that time I will only focus on my current goal.
look at it this way, if you had a financial goal to save up for a vacation, and you need $2000 for the trip, you are not going to go out and get a degree in economics, or try to flip a house.
comparing workouts of a marathon runner and an Olympic powerlifter does you no good at all.
good luck
set a time table: 2 months from now I'll have my body ready to start working out
set a routine: every monday and weds I'll go to the gym and do something
set a program: mondays I'll ride a bike and weds I'll do a total body workout with weights
set up rules: I'll TRY to eat a little better, and will do a little more with each workout.
2 weeks before the end of the two months I'll evaluate how I am doing and set another goal, until that time I will only focus on my current goal.
look at it this way, if you had a financial goal to save up for a vacation, and you need $2000 for the trip, you are not going to go out and get a degree in economics, or try to flip a house.
comparing workouts of a marathon runner and an Olympic powerlifter does you no good at all.
good luck
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Percentages? Are you getting this out of a textbook?hno:
HIIT is not the best way to burn fat? News to me and just about everyone that does it.
Love to see some real world reasoning behind this, and not what your nutrition 101 class said.
you're dumb my man. common knowledge is that you're shredding right through your carb storage when you're doing HIIT. since when does a carb molecule and a fat molecule mean the same thing??
Carb storage? The body has bones, muscle, and fat. Is there some magical place that carbs go to?
What do you think carbs turn into for "storage"?
Fat is stored energy buddy. Energy is carbs. Fat is stored carbs.
yeah it's stored as fat after it catabolizes. when you're exercising you think the only thing you burn is fat??? get a clue moron, you burn carbs before anything in high intensity
Ugh.
The point of exercising isn't to only burn "fat" while you're doing the actual exercise. You want to raise your metabolism for several hours after you're done working out.
Steady state cardio doesn't do this well, because if you're running long distances you aren't pushing yourself. And if you aren't pushing yourself your heart rate isn't up.
But hey, if you want to be fat and walk 8 miles everyday have fun.
it's a matter at how you look at things from an untrained perspective. for his perspective, he wants to lose some weight. starting with HIIT wouldn't be the ideal program to do that. he wants to drop fat, low intensity cardio and a diet is the way to go. he can do weight training for the bulk to boost his metabolism.
