Group: New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself

New Members Greet & Meet - Introduce yourself
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 1539, Messages: 27038

Officially introduce yourself to the community by sharing your goals, obstacles or accomplishments. Don't be shy.. we're all here for the same reason. The more support we share the easier it will be to reach our goals!

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New here with a quick question.

Shanxx
Shanxx
Posts: 3
Joined: 2003/10/30
United States
2003/10/30, 09:07 PM
Hey everyone, New here and this sight looks to be very helpful. My question is, how often and how long do I do cardeo? I am doing weight training but confused on how much cardeo??
Carivan
Carivan
Posts: 8,542
Joined: 2002/01/20
Canada
2003/10/30, 10:45 PM
Hi Shanxx and welcome to freetrainers. From reading your profile I would suggest you start off doing the cardio for 5 minutes, and then each time increase the time as you feel comfortable. MAke sure you don't get your Heart rate too high.
The proper way to figure your max and min HR is to take the number 220 minus 35 (your age)=185 so, 185 is your max hr.
when doing cardio try to not go past 85% of your max and stay above 60%. As you get more conditioned it will take longer to get your HR up.
Hope this helps and good luck.

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