106 thoughts on “5 Reasons Men Should Limit Their Cardio”

1. Cardio does have its place. Its a choice to make whether you fight your enemy or outrun him. Somewhere I read that its important to be able to run a mile or a mile and a half without feeling like a veteran smoker. Id rather be all around to some extent like the police and military require, rather than be a gorilla or a rabbit.

   1. When I was in the army reserve I was trained by the airborne. There was one Corporal Dobson who would take us for a run each day. He was an airborne engineer who suffered a shrapnel wound and lost a lung. He was pushing 30 and while jogging with a bunch of gasping teenagers he would smoke a cigarette just to taunt us.

      1. That’s raw.

   2. I don’t think he was suggesting you don’t do any cardio at all, just don’t make it the focus of your work-out.
      You won’t outrun your enemy by jogging though.

2. How can I check my bodyfat percentage?

3. Escessive cardio will release cortisol and other not-so-wanted hormones. Besides, if you go to an average gym, you will find the fatties near the treadmill, never near the squat racks.

   1. Those fatties are at the right place. It’s just that 20′ of treadmill walking isn’t going to do much for them.

      1. Especially if they grab a fistful of Tootsie Rolls on the way out.

4. “Traditional cardio can lead to poor posture”
   What kind of cardio besides spinning can lead to bad posture?

5. A balance of cardio and strength training is proper, but I agree that you shouldn’t do either to excess.
   A scrawny runner that can’t lift his own bodyweight is equally as useless as some jacked up muscle man that can’t run a quarter mile without dying of a heart attack.

   1. You don’t need to run a mile to bang a hot latina brah you just need to be ripped

      1. And when she runs away? 😉

         1. Get a new one. THeyre a dime a dozen if youre ripped

         2. She will never get out of his grip.

6. i have never in my life seen any white person in the number 2 posture…

   1. Kim Kardashian.

      1. Is she white?

         1. Yes.

         2. I guess the idea that Armenians are white is the final nail in the coffin of the myth of race.

         3. Eh, depends who you ask.

         4. Well the Caucasus Mountains happen to encompass Armenia, where we get “Caucasian” from.

         5. True, although that has nothing to do with race.

         6. It has everything to do with anthropology. Then again, racial constructs seems to be touted based on the current social fabric of whatever the current era is. Who knows what will be popular thought in a hundred years when supposedly “Everybody looks brown” or even grey courtesy of miscegenation.

         7. You are right. Race is purely a social construct based solely upon appearance. It is a hangover from primitive pre-civilization times. As such there will be no miscegenation. Skin color is merely based on diet and sun exposure.

         8. I would be in the number one posture behind her.

   2. That’s my posture!
      I think most white people fall in category 3 and 4.

7. I want to join the military, and at that a branch that requires particularly hardcore fitness. I’ve been packing on muscle and it’s going well, but to do that I’ve had to neglect cardio and I’m unsure of the best way to find a balance. To pass the fitness tests I will need to be strong but also have endurance; how do I best achieve this? Do I pack on the pounds first and then focus on the cardio aspect later?

   1. check out the blue pill forum for answers!

      1. How incredibly helpful.

   2. Just focus on running swimming and muscular endurance. PushUp pull up dips body weight squats. Climb steps walls. Give a fuck about these clowns that are lifting to look jacked.
      if that’s all you want is to look pretty. Take creatine nitric oxide. Or go crazy with roids gh or even the whole new rage. Synthol

      1. if you’re not smashing the dead squat rack you’re not doing it right

      2. “Body weight squats.” Oh, man.

   3. You will be doing 10 mile hikes with 90 pound pack, and they punch you in the head if you fall behind.
      http://www.military.com/military-fitness/army-workouts/training-for-ruck-marches

8. I believe once again it’s all about balance. If you are a bodybuilder you obviously want to reduce cardio to stay jacked. If you are into martial arts or combat sports, agility and endurance are crucial, you need cardio. A marathon runner looks skinny but can outrun any jacked guy from the gym, this works the other way around too, any jacked guy from the gym can lift more than a marathon runner. At the end of the day it’s not even about cardio, it really depends on your sports, your goals and above all what you want to achieve.

9. What if you aren’t as lean as you want to be yet? I have a body-fat ratio of 18%, 5″10 and about 166 lbs. Don’t I need to keep doing cardio (at least 30 to 40 minutes a day) other than lifting to gain muscle and lose fat, or is that just not possible? I do wanna do martial arts but logistics make it easier to do both at the gym rather than go from one place to another in a city with insane traffic

   1. 5’10” and 166 lbs? You need to hit the weights, man. Cut the cardio.

   2. You likely have high bf because you’re doing too much. 30 to 40 of cardio a day? Plus lifting? Then you’re only 166? So you’re ‘skinny fat’ at 18% possibly because you’re basically starving yourself for your amount of activity plus the pressure your body is under to rebuild muscle due to lifting. So, you ask, “If I’m starving why is my bodyfat high?” Because you’re not actually starving, just not getting enough to rebuild. Your hormones are all set up for fat storage right now so every bit of sugar or every drink is metabolized as fat with super efficiency. You need to get into the compound lifts and start building muscle. Forget the cardio at your light bodyweight. Squats, deadlifts, presses, cleans. Start building yourself and the bodyfat will diminish on its own. Eat a lot and lift heavy. I bet you could get up to 180 at about 13% bf in a couple of years.

10. 1. Cardio doesn’t burn much compared to lifting, sprinting, or other anaerobic exercise. But it does increase your appetite enough to where you can be in a caloric surplus. Skinny guys are skinny because they don’t eat enough.
    2. That’s how you stay lean. Unless you’re going for the “dad bod” (chubby lifter) look.
    3. Shouldn’t be on this list. Learning a skill, meeting people, and exploring the world is an argument for cardio. Basketball, martial arts, and walking outside take the cake.
    4. So can lifting weights. Do it right or not at all.
    5. Yes, bikes are torture devices. However, any cardio done standing means less time sitting and better posture. Excessive sitting is the cause of bad posture.

    1. its not even the calorie burn that cardio benefits, It’s the fact that oxygen heals us…and cardio increases the amount of oxygen in the blood, which doesn’t just go to muscles..
       Also, insulin sensitivity increases with cardio, meaning you can eat more without it going to your liver to be stored as fat, it also enhances muscle recovery
       Oxygen, which we breathe burns us out with damage as a side effect of metabolism, but people who do cardio have lower resting heart rates, which means that they are aging slower

11. My old EOD squad used to joke, “If you ever see one of us running, try to keep up.”

12. Cardio does have its benefits although men should focus primarily on strength training. When I get into the weight room, most people use cardio first as some sort of “warm up” and I rarely see anybody doing squats. That’s okay and good for me because since there is no line, that is the first thing I will get on since squat releases most amount of Testosterone. I hit the heavy weight lifting first and then I do cardio treadmills and other cycling as an option. If you do wrestling and submission grappling with someone for about ten minutes, that’s still good enough cardio because you will be tired with heart pounding at fast rate. Even kettlebell swing can replace cardio since that can also raise your heart rate. Look at sprinters vs marathon runners and see their bodies. One good thing about marathon and long cardio is endurance. Something that can help you.

    1. “Even kettlebell swing can replace cardio . . .”
       Identity is identity, not a “replacement.” Exercise is defined by its adaptive response, not by activity. Your metabolism has no idea what you are doing, only the imposed stress.
       Along that line I will point out that the aftermath of 10 minutes of HIT strength training is about 40 minutes of endurance training level aerobic metabolic load, while you lie on the floor.
       Because it is the aerobic system that must be loaded to repay the “debt” imposed by the lifting.
       This was overlooked for a very long time because it won’t improve your running any. To improve your running, you must run. It is a matter of neuromuscular patterning, skill, not metabolic conditioning. Activity training is activity specific, no matter your general metabolic condition.
       And Kenneth Cooper mistakenly made running the “Gold Standard” for endurance fitness, but it’s only valid for runners. Cyclists must be tested on a cycle, swimmers must tested in the water and kettlebell swingers must be tested swinging a kettlebell.

    2. I think you make a good point about sprinters vs marathon runners. Both are in good shape but the latter tend to be somewhat skinny and wiry while the former, particularly in the last few decades, have good – but not outrageous – muscle bulk in both their upper and lower bodies. Compare a marathon winner to Usain Bolt, the fastest man ever. And then to Ben Johnson, a sprinter and convicted juicer. Unless you really get into body building, the sprinters’ body is what most men do and should aspire to.

       1. Yep and Bodybuilders would tell Usain that he skipped leg day:)

          1. actually Usain bolt has the type of body that most western women would be attracted to. Low body fat, solid muscle (but not too much), 6’5″ tall, ripped….

          2. I didn’t realize that he was that tall, but I guess it makes sense. With that sort of height you don’t need to be all muscled out like a body builder. On the other hand – and just to pull something out of my head from a few decades ago – if you are 5’5″ (a full foot shorter than Bolt) then following the route of Dr. Franco Columbu is probably the better option.

13. Jogging is destructive and strength training is constructive.

14. I just work in my garden. Push wheelbarrow. Chop with hoe. And walk my dog one mile a day.

    1. 5 Reasons Men Should Own a Dog: #1 You walk more.

15. It’s all about finding out what your personal cardio bell curve is, everyone is different, but extreme hyper aggressive cardio is always a terrible idea especially sustained for over an hour
    Ultimately, You want to break up your cardio into 2 splits
    Its a way to get 30% more out of your efforts
    http://www.ergo-log.com/cardioepoc.html
    Also, less stress on the joints, it’s good for anti-aging purposes. Aging is a process of losing your v02 max, endurance, and vitality, and practising an intelligent and disciplined regimen of 45 mins -60 mins of cardio a day is VERY important
    220-age so train around 75-85% of your Max heart rate for 45 mins-1 hour, or do this: 30 seconds at 90% than 1.5 mins at 75%, somehow it averages out to a calorie/fat loss burn of 30% more
    So basically, i have just told you the secret on how to lose 60% more fat,
    1.)Split cardio into two sessions. +30%
    2.)Hiit it +30%
    3.)do cardio in a fasted state(lowcarb) while drinking coffee +30%
    There ….90% gain
    what you can do, as a challenge, is 25 mins of cardio before weight lifting, than do the weight lifting, than do another 35 mins of cardio after

    1. “220-age . . .”
       . . . is bullshit pulled straight from a medical doctor’s (not a physiologist’s) arse. If you want to know what your max heart rate is, you have to stress test it.

16. Swimming is fun, productive, and has almost no negative affects associated with Jogging. It is also the one physical advantage we really have over great apes.
    It’s also a great place to meet fitness-conscious girls who you can tell at a glance whether they are healthy or tattooed hose beasts.

    1. But you can develop eczema from the chlorine water.

       1. so don’t swim in chlorine, or only swim in low-chlorine (ie no children) exercise pools.
          Frankly, children ruin my swim.

          1. So do miserable bitches who swim slow in the fast lane and refuse to move.

          2. YMCA a couple of years ago had a name for those.
             “get out of the pool”
             It was for serious swimmers. There was another section for the hags in rubber hats pretending to try and get in shape.

    2. Many years ago I briefly dated a competitive swimmer and her body makes my all-time-hit-list. Swimming if probably the best complete body workout you can do for cardio. Rowing would be second. It works your arms and lats and pecs in a way that jogging or cycling can’t.

       1. eh, I guess that’s… fun?
          Pools are great places for day game, though. And if you love swimming, sometimes it can be hard to peel yourself out.

    3. LOL! True. I used to do swimming and I really enjoy it. You can get some great benefits from sprints.

       1. I was made a rescue swimmer cause I was the only one on our ship that was a good enough swimmer, loved swimming, and was stupid enough to dive over the side when our boat davit cable slipped, dumping the boat crew in the drink. No lives lost despite the hurricane.
          You’d be amazed at how many Navy guys cannot swim for shit. I don’t get it. If my ship went down, I was for damned sure going to live to tell the tale.

17. Running is crucial to my workout routine. Use to just do weights and since running 5 km twice a week look much leaner and started lifting more. Id take this advice with a grain of salt.

    1. I would take it seriously and explore the research on the topic. Cardio twice a week is not excessive and I don’t El Jefe is suggesting you don’t do any cardio at all. However, the research suggests that long duration steady state cardio is the lease effective form. You may enjoy it but do consider the pitfalls in terms of injury. Also, explore the other options such as sprints, pack walking, loaded carry etc. I think you will find great benefits by varying your cardio.

       1. Bob you are correct but that’s not what the article is saying. I’d still take it with a grain of salt, he should have mentioned some of the options you listed. The posture part wasn’t too accurate either – those postural problems don’t get caused by a 30-45 minute cardio session, they’re caused by 5-12 hours of sitting in a poorly designed chair looking at your computer screen at work.

          1. Sorry, “what” is not what the article is saying? I thought in section 3 Jefe said to vary your cardio methods and in 4 limit or vary LISS cardio on machines. What am I missing?
             It seems that whenever someone says “limit your cardio” or “focus on strength building” all people see is “NO MORE CARDIO EVER!”

       2. Agreed.
          I have changed my cardio up to HIIT sprints. 15 seconds on 45 seconds off with a treadmill at 12 mph and an incline of 10%
          20 minutes of this and my heart rate is jumping and the sweat is exploding out of me.
          When you think of your cardio try to imagine the body of a marathon runner. Basically skinny fat. Now think about Usain Bolt. Totally jacked. There is a reason.
          Still, Jefe is right as usual. Cardio has a useful place but primary focus needs to be weights.
          And anyone who thinks that weights isn’t “cardio” in the target HR zone for cardio burn for your age hasn’t done Giant sets.
          Dumbbell Flyes
          Dumbbell Pull overs
          Bent over Dumbbell Row
          20 reps each. No rest Giant set. 5 sets. Tell me you aren’t in cardio territory after that.

18. I always liked the 3 mile running I did in the Marine Corps Even when we were lifting hard I got huge and could still run like hell. I liked the strength and distance running combination I really felt like stud because I could do anything.

    1. How do you feel now?

       1. Old, Started lifting again 5 months ago. Progress is slower at 50. Started walking will start half mile runs

          1. Good stuff. I wouldn’t think 3 mile runs would significantly reduce your muscle gains. It’s those guys doing a couple marathons a week who’ll have problems.

          2. Keep at it. I’m 52 and started serious powerlifting from scratch 4 years ago. As modest as I can put it, I’m looking quite good. No cardio, just a slow build up of heavy weights. I’m about 15-18% body fat Look At Stronglifts to get you started. There are apps for these too, plus it’s worth getting a trainer for a few months to get some proper technique.

19. “And cardio burns a lot of calories.”
    If you are race training for one to two hours a day. Otherwise, not so much. There are even fat endurance athletes.
    “The more calories you burn, the more you need to eat to maintain this positive caloric balance.”
    Bacon, butter, cheese, eggs. All calorie dense, all come in pre-weighed quantities. A little third grade arithmetic once and you never have to do anything more than count on your fingers again.
    “Pickup basketball, martial arts, rock climbing, hiking, and even running outside . . .”
    So, cardio is boring, unless it isn’t. This is a content free argument.

    1. Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Or as Forest Gump would say “boring is does as boring does.”

       1. I think Forest would omit that first “does”. He may be retarded, but he’s not *that* much.

    2. I’ve been lifting regularly for 18 months now and trying to get by shot and endurance back so I can join some pickup games (basketball) at the gym.
       At 57, my real fear is blowing my achilles.

20. Cardio can (not will) be destructive.
    I’m 57 now and back in my late 30’s I ran a marathon one a year for five years. Ice and listening to your body are key. Oh, my weight was between 225 and 230 at the time. Same as now.

21. My job requires standing all day which is much better than sitting all day. I also found climbing 10-15 floors of stairs instead of the lift to be great at burning fat. However, I discovered that even standing can be bad for my lower back and back of neck unless I varies my routine. I wonder if weight lifting will help correct my posture as well as my belly fat?

    1. Stand with one leg on a step. Change legs now and again. You’ll find the strain reduced, or even eliminated.

22. If you want to combine cardio with lifting, then make it the last thing you do after lifting. If you use cardio as “warm up” before lifting, then you fatigue more quickly when you lift. Or alternate every other day, lifting and cardio on different days. Unless you’re training for weight loss, cardio should be secondary.

    1. If you do a warm up set with light weights – you’re doing “cardio.”

       1. You have to do like 100 reps before it approaches cardio. I don’t train like that.

          1. No, it is any activity you could do for 100 reps, and actually the limit is in the 12 to 15 range for most people.
             It is a matter of the metabolic load, not the time. Doing “cardio” for less time is simply doing less of it, not avoiding it.
             Any activity you can sustain for more than about 2 minutes is endurance training, i.e., “cardio.”
             I am a cyclist, and right now I’m focusing on 2K (mile and a quarter) to mile and a half pursuit distance for Grand Masters. On a good track with a slick bike 2k can be done in 2:30 and I feel like I’ve done a set of heavy squats when I’m through, but the metabolic load is at least 80% aerobic, and the peak force (which is only in the first couple seconds) is little more than my weight ( a fraction of peak jogging force).
             Two minutes and thirty seconds, and it’s pure endurance “cardio.”

          2. I max out around 50 push ups. I’m not even breathing hard. That’s not cardio to me. Cardio to me is running 2.5 miles over hills. Maybe we use the terms differently. I’m not arguing.

          3. “Maybe we use the terms differently.”
             Certainly we do. What I am trying to point out, not to put you down, but for your own benefit (as well as that of the peanut gallery), is that your use is “bro,” and wrong.
             But then so is the word “cardio” itself, which is a marketing term and really shouldn’t have any place in a serious discussion about exercise.
             The actual endurance adaptations of importance happen to the capillary system and internal chemistry of the cells, which can happen without any adaptation of the heart at all.

    2. Lately, I’ve just combined the two via higher reps. I’m working up to the 10-15 rep range at the compound lifts. I like it so far. I decided I don’t want to eat what I need to eat to do the low rep range style workout. My heart pounds after a set of 12 squats. No need for cardio, really. I hike too.

23. I hate sitting on a stationary bike, or that gruesome stair climber. Seriously, it looks like a torturemachine. Crosstrainer? looks pretty feminine to me, and again.. boring. I did Bodypump classes. Those were ok for the time, but your not going to build serious muscle doing that. I like martial arts and jogging in the spring/summer time. Every healthy man under 45 should be able to run 2400 meters under 12 minutes else your just not fit.
    Most guys workout because? Well, for a lot of reasons. But one of them is not to look weak and like an easy target. You can look big/ripped, but if you don’t practice your kicks and punches in for example a kickboxing/MMA class, in a fight you will punch like an old man with all your joints protesting because all you’re doing is sitting behind a computer and doing heavy lifting.

24. LOL/SMH at all the cardio hate in the comments. Granted, cardio will not make you bench more, nor will it help you beat up (or necessarily outrun) enemies in a bar fight. And yes, it can get boring if you don’t choose what’s right for you. But for overall health benefits, especially as you age, cardio boosts just about every system in the body, and helps the most in combatting the most prominent killer in America today — heart disease. (Kenneth Cooper, 1968)

    1. blah blah blah who cares about living to old age
       im going to bang tight latinas till im 50 and then go out in an overdose of viagra and whiskey like a real man

       1. I’ve seen guys who are 50 who look like 30, like karate instructor or people who work in fitness for their job. They get hit on by younger women who don’t know their age. Most men don’t have to look old if they’d work out. Different story for women, very few women age gracefully, maybe if they don’t have children.

    2. You might want to look into what Kenneth Cooper has learned since 1968:
       http://www.cbass.com/CooperBook.htm

    3. Lifting won’t help with self defense if you don’t know how to fight. Cardio can help you squeeze out an extra 10 years of youth. But you don’t need that much cardio to keep your heart healthy, maybe 20 minutes every other day on a stairclimber would do it. But you won’t have any definition when you take off your shirt. That’s ok if you’re a man with everything else going right for you like Leonardo Dicaprio. But the rest of us could use the extra definition.

       1. Stairclimber? Really?

25. Cardio is exactly what it says on the label: it is a workout for your heart. It will never make you big but it will burn fat and tone your legs and perhaps your upper body if you have a rowing machine. I would have to review the literature but I suspect it will keep you alive longer.
    .
    Unless you are a soldier or an MMA type, there is no advantage to gas after 30 minutes or an hour rather than 5 minutes. It is, however, part of a complete fitness package.
    .
    When I went full time with the army reserve we were allowed an extended lunch break where a comrade and I would jog 6k in half an hour without breaking a sweat, just for maintenance purposes. After I left the military I got fat and soft and now I am on the road back to the body I deserve. Cardio will be a part of that.

26. Be a bit careful about telling men they should be above 10 percent body fat. The only way I can do that is to drink lots of high calorie beer over and extended period.

27. its all a trade-off . i became pretty enchanted with combat stuff (specifically boxing). lifting a ton isnt gonna do you a world of good…and you need a good gas tank along with learning technique

28. A lot of comments implying that there is no cardio benefit in weightlifting. Mid-high rep range weightlifting will give you all the cardio health you need without the questionable hormonal reaction your body will have to lengthy, ‘steady-state’ cardio.
    You won’t get as strong or buffed up with mid-high range reps but it might be better for the non-‘MetRx, 12 egg whites for breakfast, huge bowl of cottage cheese at 10pm’ crowd. One grows too intimate with toilet seats, you know?
    Thoughts?

29. At my heaviest, I weighed 235lbs. My first goal was to just lose the weight so I started running 3 miles, then 5 miles, then up to 8 miles per day. I did this every day. I then got into hot yoga with a friend which made me lose more weight. Don’t let yoga fool you. It was hard. This wasn’t YMCA yoga in the park crap. This was holding body positions that would get you shredded. The girls were extremely attractive and the dudes that had been doing it for years had Bruce Lee abs.
    I got down to about 165lbs and looked like a heroin addict with aids.
    I started eating more and began doing crossfit which is what I do now 4-5 days per week. Personally, I need that intense cardio high which crossfit gives me in addition to muscle building.
    I would say that if you’re fat, start doing anything and if that means just cardio, then just do cardio. I’d rather be skinny and not so strong than fat and really strong which I was at 235lbs.

    1. I practice hand balances, which are like Western/Strongman Yoga, holding headstands for 3 minutes 5 times a week has thickened my neck and shoulders like no other.

    2. Please give your height as well as your weight. It matters 🙂
       Also, when most people think of “cardio” they think of LISS rather cross-fit or other HIIT activities. HIIT will have you looking good.

       1. 6 foot even. Now I weight about 175lbs.

30. Traditional cardio is boring as hell.
    I’m a big advocate of making mini circuits with things like mountain climbers, box jumps and jump rope – gets the heart rate up, keeps it fun and also improves coordination/functional fitness.

31. In the Marines, my cardio was absolutely insane. Being in the kind of shape where I just didn’t get tired really gives you incredible confidence. Running any distance is a joke after you are used to speed marching 20 to 40 miles a day with heavy loads. I wasn’t going to lose a fight because I was slow or tired.
    It did make it hard to build up any bulk, but we were fast and dangerous. (Remembering a confrontation with some roid-monster bouncers at a club in southern CA – they thought they could manhandle my buddy until they looked up and saw they were a couple of bulls surrounded by a wolf-pack and made the wise choice)
    Now my knees are shot and I just ride the bike to warm up.

32. I think all of us work out. You’re just beating a dead horse with all these repetitive weight-lifting articles.

33. Mountain Biking and Beer, enough said.

34. Is that really true about getting bad posture from biking, spin or otherwise? I think the professional cycling community would show evidence of this.

35. No way could I cut out cardio…although I usually do pick-up basketball or jog outdoors. Occasionally I will do the treadmill if the weather is iffy but I want to shoot myself after 5 minutes. Everyone’s ideal shape is different. I like to be lean and play as many different sports as I can so cardio is a must, I tried the bulking up stuff and I just couldn’t stand the constant bloating/sluggishness due to all the eating. Also bad for my BP.
    The so called “beasts” I see at the gym benching a lot usually bounce the weights off their blubber and are heart attacks waiting to happen. All due respect to those who can do it and maintain a healthy weight I just rarely see it.

36. It all depends on your body type, personality and desired results. A man should work out hard at something. Lifting, running, a martial art or combat sport. A combination possibly. I’m 64 and my weightlifting workouts are considerably more intense than they were 30-35 years ago. Am I the man I used to be? Nobody my age is but you can be almost as good if you work hard at it.

37. What good are bulging biceps if you have a weak heart?
    Watch what happens to a bulked up fighter that hasn’t done enough cardio. After a few rounds, he’s a limp noodle.
    Cardio is the foundation for anything we do.
    Of course cardio on a bike or treadmill is boring as hell. That’s why you do your cardio outdoors.
    For me, at least, cardio is a fun time exploring the area and spending time outdoors.
    I actually get a bit depressed if I don’t get some time outside and doing some cardio fulfills that craving.
    Cardio is a meditative process, it clears the mind. It’s an excellent aid for any kind of mental work, when you need to solve a problem or come up with ideas.
    I also love the testosterone rush from lifting steel weights over my head, but cardio proficiency comes first.
    A big red flag is this guy seems primarily concerned with cosmetic appeal. He’s more worried about “getting big” than being fit. You avoid these guys if you want to first train like an athlete and perform your best. Cosmetics are for women, competence is for men.
    I found the hard way that bodybuilder isolation exercises are inefficient. You can’t work the big muscle groups hard as often if you’re blowing out your biceps and triceps in isolation.
    Cardio, like anything, can be taken to excess. You won’t be able to weight train as effectively if you’re training for a marathon. But training for a 5k – 10k shouldn’t slow you down too much. In fact, I find the increased blood flow from cardio greatly speeds healing, flushes out the lactic acid, and the steady motion prevents the muscles from healing up tight.

    1. I think he was referring to more athletic based weight training, such as powerlifting, not hypertrophy training that bodybuilders implement. I’m a martial artist and powerlifter myself, and hence an athlete (or former should I add). And I do agree with you about the men and women difference in terms of motives.

38. The more you breath the more you burn fat. Cardio is King on burning fat.

39. fuck this article, everyone needs to run. I stopped doing cardio for a while trying to bulk up, all that happened was i gained some stomach fat and lost all my fitness for football (soccer). I was shit, lost my place in the team and could barely handle 30 minutes, now I’ve got to spend every day running and interval training to get my fitness back and I’ve got to find a new football team.
    Don’t listen to the scaremongering about cardio

40. I would, but I have a meeting with the Prince of Nigeria today.

41. “Traditional cardio is boring.”
    Is that supposed to be a reason ?!
    What good are you if you have Excellent body build with a faint heart?
    Cardio is an inseparable part of exercise.

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