Group: Beginners to Exercise

Beginners to Exercise
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 970, Messages: 18927

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Cardio?

MarlenaM
MarlenaM
Posts: 50
Joined: 2005/10/27
United States
2005/10/27, 05:40 PM
How much cardio should you do to loose weight? How long daily and how often a week? I have read on here that doing it too long is counterproductive but then they said that 60mins is good. To me that is a long cardio session. Confused....:)
wrestler125
wrestler125
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Joined: 2004/01/27
United States
2005/10/28, 12:17 AM
generally, after 45 minutes, your body starts to burn muscle as a form of exercise. Anything over this is usually counterproductive.
One thing for weight loss that is much more effective would be HIIT training. Do a search, and read some of the posts. I have posted on this before, as have many of the experianced members of the site.

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