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2003/09/22, 01:12 PM
I've read that you should vary your workouts so that your body will not get used to the same routine. I have been doing the stairmaster about 5 times a week for about 7 weeks. Some days I run or do the eliptical instead. My question is...am I doing too much of the same thing. I still push myself and always do harder levels to keep it more difficult. Will I know that my body is not going to respond anymore when it becomes easy?
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2003/09/22, 01:35 PM
I htink with many things, there are different opinions out there on this one. One group will say a calorie is a calorie...walk a mile run a mile you will burn the same number of calories (so the same exercise daily will still burn the calories). BUT, then there are thoise who I think make a more valid point, the more you struggle to do soemthing the harder your body will work. So, if you are not used to running on a treadmill it will take mopre work to do and we all know work = calories burned. I would say change it up.. even interval. It also depends if you are working on endurance or to lose weight.
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2003/09/22, 01:42 PM
By all means, change things up. Your body will adapt to the same thing, and will actually learn to store fat in areas for the next time. Kind of a survival thing. Losing fat is not a priority of the body. As I have mentioned before, kind of like being percieved as running through the jungles or endless deserts for survival. By varying things up, you will keep your body guessing and it can't adapt as easily, and gains will be more forthcoming. Try short bouts of HIIT, varied with standard cardio of no more than 30 min. at a time. Make sure you do resistance training for the entire body also, and vary these up, this will burn more fat in the end due to lean tissue being built. More lean tissue stokes metabolism, thus more calories burnt. Hope this helps and good luck.
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Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better!
Ron
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2003/09/22, 03:49 PM
Just curious...bbfit...why do you say to do cardio for no more that 30 min. at a time? Right now I do 50-60 min.
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2003/09/22, 07:45 PM
For the simple reason I mentioned in the first line of my reply to you. Your body goes into survival mode. You will be putting out much cortisol (this is a defense hormone your body secretes in reaction to stress, overwork, etc.)at that point, and eating away at muscle, which is your best freind in the fat wars. Don't let this happen.
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Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better!
Ron
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