When you focus on building muscle you pretty much end up getting the cardio you need to be healthy just by showing up.
That being the case you’ll know I still recommend cardio.
Why? Well I’ve covered this a lot when it came to talking about rest times. You just recover easier.
You can also push a bit harder in your sets 🙄
No one wants to reach failure because their cardio gave out before anything else…
So when I’m structuring cardio in my coaching groups how do you think I do it?
Well it’s actually stupidly simple.
You almost always stick to ~90 minutes of cardio a week
This is pretty much always zone 2
It’s almost always split equally between 3-4 rest days
It’s only ever one of the following machines
Bike
Elliptical
Incline Treadmill (never normal treadmill/running)
Rowing Machine
This leads to a pretty perfect cardio gain that’s not giving a ton of fatigue and effecting workouts which you can use to push harder and rest slightly less.
The second you start properly being on top of 90 minutes of Zone 2 cardio on the machines I mentioned you’ll notice a huge difference in how easy everything is.
Oh and yeah the pumps are absurd. Maybe that’s the real reason my coaching groups look so huge… 😳
Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher
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