Does Cardio After Lifting Kill Your Gains?
الملخص
TLDRI denna video diskuterar Dr. Mike hur aerob träning, som konditionsträning, kan påverka muskeltillväxt när det görs efter styrketräning. Han förklarar att aerob träning och styrketräning har olika syften: konditionsträning handlar främst om fettförbränning och hälsa medan styrketräning stimulerar muskeltillväxt. Efter styrketräning går kroppen in i ett tillstånd som är optimalt för muskeltillväxt, men intensiv konditionsträning kan aktivera det sympatiska nervsystemet, vilket inte är fördelaktigt för återhämtningen. Dr. Mike uppmanar till att utföra lågintensiv konditionsträning eller dela upp träningspassen för att minimera påverkan på muskeltillväxt. Han betonar att upprepade högintensiva konditionspass efter styrketräning kan leda till sämre muskelåterhämtning och ökad risk för muskelutmattning, vilket påverkar hypertrofi negativt.
الوجبات الجاهزة
- 💪 Gasar du på med cardio efter styrka? Tänk om!
- 🧬 Styrketräning initierar muskeltillväxt, men kräver återhämtning.
- 🏃♂️ Lågintensiv cardio kan vara fördelaktig efter styrketräning.
- 🔥 Högintensiv cardio efter styrketräning kan leda till minskad muskelväxt.
- ⏳ Dela upp dina pass: träna styrka och cardio vid olika tidpunkter.
- 🍽️ Ta en proteinshake under lågintensiv cardio for bättre resultat.
- 🚀 Träna olika muskelgrupper vid cardio för att minimera skador.
- 📉 Undvik cardio vars varaktighet överskrider 30 minuter efter styrka.
- ⚖️ Balans mellan styrka och konditionsträning ger bästa resultat.
- 🤔 Mindre cardio, mer muskel: en viktig insikt för träning.
الجدول الزمني
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Dr. Mike diskuterar hur konditionsträning efter styrketräning kan påverka muskeluppbyggnad negativt. Han förklarar att musklerna ofta ser konditionsträning som en 'invasion' av deras återhämtningsprocess, vilket kan hindra tillväxt.
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Han beskriver skillnaden mellan syftet med kondition och styrketräning, där det förstnämnda handlar om fettförbränning och hälsa, medan styrketräning syftar till att stimulera muskelväxt. Muskeluppbyggnad sker främst efter träning under vila och näring.
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Efter styrketräning går kroppen in i ett tillstånd av parasympatikusdominans, vilket är fördelaktigt för återhämtning och tillväxt. Om man gör konditionsträning direkt efter kan man påverka detta negativa, vilket minskar blodflödet och näringsupptaget till de nytränade musklerna.
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Dr. Mike går in på hur konditionsträning aktiverar ampk, en katabolisk regulator som kan hämma mTor, den process som är avgörande för muskelväxt. Dessutom diskuterar han hur lokalt muskeltrötthet och glykogennivåer påverkas av konditionsträning.
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Han sammanfattar att högintensiv och långvarig konditionsträning efter styrketräning kan kraftigt hämma muskeluppbyggnad, och ger praktiska råd om hur man kan strukturera träning för att minimera negativa effekter, inklusive att separera kondition och styrketräning med flera timmars mellanrum.
الخريطة الذهنية
فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة
Does doing cardio after weight training hinder muscle growth?
Yes, intense cardio after weight training can interfere with muscle growth due to increased sympathetic nervous system activity and reduced nutrient flow to muscles.
What is the best way to combine cardio and weight training?
To minimize interference, consider doing low-intensity cardio for shorter durations after weight training or separating cardio and weight sessions by several hours.
What types of cardio are best after lifting?
Low-intensity cardio, ideally under 30 minutes, is less likely to hinder muscle growth compared to high-intensity sessions.
How does cardio affect nutrient delivery to muscles?
Cardio can decrease blood flow to recently trained muscles and restrict nutrient delivery, hindering recovery and growth.
Is all cardio bad after weight training?
Not all cardio is bad; low-intensity workouts can be beneficial, especially when post-workout nutrition is consumed.
Can I still gain muscle while doing cardio?
Yes, you can still gain muscle while doing cardio, but excessive cardio without proper nutrition may reduce the potential gains.
Should I consume protein while doing cardio after weights?
Consuming a protein shake during low-intensity cardio can help maintain nutrient flow to muscles.
When is the worst time to do cardio in relation to weight training?
After an intense weight workout, doing high-intensity cardio for an extended duration is the worst as it can significantly impede muscle recovery.
What factors influence how cardio affects muscle growth?
Intensity of cardio, duration, and whether the cardio involves muscles that have just been trained all influence the potential impact on muscle growth.
عرض المزيد من ملخصات الفيديو
- 00:00:00like you have this huge workout your
- 00:00:01muscles are ready to grow they're like
- 00:00:02food and you're like you know what you
- 00:00:03guys get instead of food that's a lot
- 00:00:05like food and they're like what you're
- 00:00:07like cardio now and they're like ah they
- 00:00:09don't love that and muscles don't love
- 00:00:11something they don't tend to grow as
- 00:00:12much those stupid
- 00:00:16muscles hey folks Dr Mike here for RP
- 00:00:18strength and today's topic is about
- 00:00:23cardio and its potential interference
- 00:00:25with getting you jacked but in a
- 00:00:26specific case of doing cardio after your
- 00:00:29weight training why are we talking about
- 00:00:31this a lot of people will do weights in
- 00:00:34the gym couple days a week train to get
- 00:00:37jacked train to get strong and then
- 00:00:40afterwards they know they're supposed to
- 00:00:41be doing some cardio or they have cardio
- 00:00:42to do as part of their fat loss plan
- 00:00:44since they're already in the gym a lot
- 00:00:45of times they're just going to like do
- 00:00:47cardio right after it's cool you get to
- 00:00:49cool down from weights get to listen to
- 00:00:50some music get to check out some curves
- 00:00:53on the other machines Scott what's your
- 00:00:55policy about staring at people while
- 00:00:57they're doing cardio from behind when
- 00:00:59they don't you're staring at them are we
- 00:01:01cool with that is it yolo at the gym
- 00:01:02you're wearing yoga pants for a reason
- 00:01:04or is it still weird I walk around and
- 00:01:06then so they can see me staring at them
- 00:01:08I want them to know yes I want you to
- 00:01:10know that you're the apple of my eye and
- 00:01:12then you and then you I already forgot
- 00:01:13about you I'm noticing you yes
- 00:01:18hi I already feel creeped out which is
- 00:01:20good all right so in order to figure out
- 00:01:23the answer the question of like is this
- 00:01:25a bad idea to do cardio after weights
- 00:01:26like is it causing us some kind of
- 00:01:27muscle growth problem let's take a step
- 00:01:29step by-step approach the first question
- 00:01:31we're going to ask is what is the
- 00:01:33purpose of cardio in our case here for
- 00:01:36the purpose of this video basically it's
- 00:01:37to burn fat but also to boost health or
- 00:01:40to improve cardio performance abilities
- 00:01:42for some other sport or just your own
- 00:01:44Vibe totally valid all kind of same same
- 00:01:46for cardio here now what is the purpose
- 00:01:49of training with weights it's not just a
- 00:01:51workout these things have two different
- 00:01:52purposes cardio is fat burning and maybe
- 00:01:54health and maybe sport performance but
- 00:01:57for weights the purpose for our stuff
- 00:01:59here is is to stimulate the muscles uh
- 00:02:02to grow or to stimulate the body to get
- 00:02:05stronger body being muscles and the
- 00:02:07nervous system and so on and so forth so
- 00:02:08size or strength but notice it didn't
- 00:02:10say to make them grow just to stimulate
- 00:02:12them to grow because the weight training
- 00:02:14workout actually doesn't result in any
- 00:02:16muscle gain whatsoever I wish you could
- 00:02:18just gain muscle in the gym I would
- 00:02:19never leave the gym the reality is you
- 00:02:21gain muscle in the days after training
- 00:02:23in which you eat and sleep and rest and
- 00:02:25relax that's when muscle growth happens
- 00:02:26but in order to stimulate that growth to
- 00:02:29trigger that growth to get that growth
- 00:02:31to
- 00:02:32begin that's what weight training
- 00:02:34does and after weight training the body
- 00:02:38can enter a certain kind of state which
- 00:02:40optimizes the probability that it'll
- 00:02:42enter into this growth State at the
- 00:02:44highest possible level but there are
- 00:02:46other things we can do to the body after
- 00:02:48training maybe one of them is cardio
- 00:02:51that may or may not interfere with that
- 00:02:53Cascade process in the muscle cells that
- 00:02:56says hey let's get the growth process
- 00:02:58started so let's ask another question
- 00:03:01what are the body States during rest
- 00:03:05after weights versus if we do cardio
- 00:03:08after weight so if we're resting after
- 00:03:09weights like you finish lifting you go
- 00:03:11to the locker room take pictures of your
- 00:03:13genitals take pictures of other people's
- 00:03:14genitals against their inform consent
- 00:03:16you go to the parking lot you start
- 00:03:18drinking your protein and carb shake you
- 00:03:20sit in your car to warm it up while
- 00:03:21scrolling through your pictures and
- 00:03:22sending them to your friends classic
- 00:03:24stuff everyone does with the gym and
- 00:03:27what is your body uh doing what a
- 00:03:30processes is undergoing if you just do
- 00:03:33that and you don't do any crazy physical
- 00:03:34activity or any cardio right after you
- 00:03:36lift a couple of things first you have
- 00:03:38what's called parasympathetic nervous
- 00:03:39system dominance your nervous system the
- 00:03:41autonomic nervous system has kind of two
- 00:03:43main modes the sympathetic nervous
- 00:03:45system is fight or flight that's the one
- 00:03:47that you feel when the crush of your
- 00:03:48dreams walks by and your heart starts
- 00:03:50pounding you urinate yourself as you
- 00:03:51usually do that sort of thing the other
- 00:03:54part is the parasympathetic type of
- 00:03:56activation which is the relaxation and
- 00:03:58Recovery part and
- 00:04:08parasympathetic after lifting
- 00:04:10parasympathetic nervous system dominance
- 00:04:12is what you get and that is absolutely
- 00:04:14what you want in addition to that blood
- 00:04:17flow continues to occur throughout the
- 00:04:19whole body but it is biased to some
- 00:04:21substantial extent to recently trained
- 00:04:24muscles so if you train your legs you'll
- 00:04:26notice that if you sit in your car for a
- 00:04:27bit afterwards and nice and warm you
- 00:04:29drive home home after a 20-minute drive
- 00:04:31home you get out of your car and you
- 00:04:33instantly like take off all your clothes
- 00:04:35in the street there's children playing
- 00:04:36you don't care you're a Savage you're
- 00:04:37going to notice that your vascularity is
- 00:04:39much more intense than usual in your
- 00:04:41legs because after workout your heart
- 00:04:44will pump uh blood all over but the
- 00:04:46vessels in your muscles you just trained
- 00:04:48are more dilated which promotes more
- 00:04:50blood flow it removes metabolites it
- 00:04:52starts to get the growth processes going
- 00:04:54all really really good stuff in addition
- 00:04:57to that once uh especially if you eat
- 00:05:00after training um but even if you don't
- 00:05:02eat after training once the training
- 00:05:04stimulus wears down and you're relaxed
- 00:05:07there's more blood flow from the GI
- 00:05:09tract to recently trained muscles
- 00:05:11there's more blood flow to recently
- 00:05:13trained muscles because of their
- 00:05:14dilation effect but especially if you
- 00:05:16have a protein shake or eat your
- 00:05:18post-workout meal your GI track starts
- 00:05:21to really pump out a lot of blood or
- 00:05:23there's a lot of blood pump to your GI
- 00:05:24tract that blood picks up the nutrients
- 00:05:26that you're digesting and transports
- 00:05:28them everywhere but because your muscles
- 00:05:30that you just trained have more blood
- 00:05:32flow going to them than normal you get
- 00:05:33more nutrients to them than normal which
- 00:05:35is really really good for very obvious
- 00:05:37reasons in addition to that there is no
- 00:05:40added local muscle catabolic system
- 00:05:44activity or activation mtor is a pathway
- 00:05:48or Central regulator in the muscle cell
- 00:05:49that causes a lot of muscle growth to
- 00:05:51occur if it gets activated and it's
- 00:05:53activated by the presence of uh various
- 00:05:55hormones myostatin it's activated by
- 00:05:58resistance training duh that's what
- 00:06:00grows most of your muscle for you and
- 00:06:02there's other Pathways one of them is
- 00:06:03called amp kinas ampk and ampk is kind
- 00:06:06of the catabolic regulator it's
- 00:06:08activated by insufficient food high
- 00:06:10stress conditions sympathetic nervous
- 00:06:12system activity and by continual
- 00:06:15activity at low grade endurance levels
- 00:06:17of that muscle but if you go rest that
- 00:06:19muscle you don't get much activity andk
- 00:06:21in the local muscle and that means
- 00:06:23you're not interfering with growth which
- 00:06:24is a really really good thing because
- 00:06:27you're not active in that local muscle
- 00:06:28there is no more fatigue being generated
- 00:06:31that local muscle fatigue is an
- 00:06:33excellent stimulus of gains in some
- 00:06:35cases locally at the muscular level but
- 00:06:37fatigue after a certain point when your
- 00:06:39muscle's already well trained is extra
- 00:06:40and it's no good and it kind of
- 00:06:42interferes with that growth Cascade so
- 00:06:45as soon as you're done training your
- 00:06:46muscle and you rest it then it's really
- 00:06:48good that there's no more local fatigue
- 00:06:50summary and lastly there's no more
- 00:06:53depletion of glycogen in that muscle
- 00:06:54that you just trained glycogen is the
- 00:06:57internal storage of carbohydrate in your
- 00:06:59muscles and if your glycogen levels are
- 00:07:01very high it actually uh Works to unlock
- 00:07:04your ability to grow that muscle more if
- 00:07:06your glycogen levels are very low very
- 00:07:08depleted the probability that muscle
- 00:07:10growth Machinery will activate as much
- 00:07:12in that muscle is uh quite substantially
- 00:07:15reduced so you're not depleting any more
- 00:07:17glycogen when you're not active anymore
- 00:07:20so for all of these reasons resting a
- 00:07:22muscle for at least a few hours after
- 00:07:24you've trained it hard and rest can even
- 00:07:26involve like some light walking or
- 00:07:28something like that it doesn't mean just
- 00:07:29sit there but even if you just sit there
- 00:07:32it's probably pretty damn good for a
- 00:07:33bunch of these reasons to get that
- 00:07:35muscle growth stimulus really turned
- 00:07:37into actual muscle growth Machinery
- 00:07:40activation which will stay active for a
- 00:07:42few days and get you Mega jacked now
- 00:07:45that's what happens if you rest after
- 00:07:47you do weights what happens if you do
- 00:07:49cardio
- 00:07:51instead first you can get more activity
- 00:07:55in the sympathetic nervous system than
- 00:07:57you otherwise would which is fight or
- 00:07:58flight that scales with intensity if you
- 00:08:01do really easy cardio you can actually
- 00:08:03have no sympathetic nervous system
- 00:08:04involvement at all if it's a really
- 00:08:06gentle walk you can actually get further
- 00:08:07reductions and actually more
- 00:08:09parasympathetic activity with a light
- 00:08:11walk sometimes than even total rest on
- 00:08:13some conditions but if you're doing some
- 00:08:17uh incline walking that's pretty tough
- 00:08:19you're doing the step mill you're doing
- 00:08:21the bicycle ergometer or anything that
- 00:08:23starts get your heart rate much over 120
- 00:08:26140 plus beats per minute the higher
- 00:08:28your heart rate goes and the tougher the
- 00:08:30cardio is the more sympathetic nervous
- 00:08:32system activity occurs and that is not
- 00:08:34ideal for muscle growth
- 00:08:36promotion you do get more blood flow to
- 00:08:39the muscles that are performing cardio
- 00:08:42so if you just trained legs and you do
- 00:08:46cardio with your legs you walk there
- 00:08:48will be more blood flow through your
- 00:08:49legs which is by itself not a terrible
- 00:08:50thing however if you just train chest
- 00:08:54and then you go for a jog because
- 00:08:56there's only so much blood in your body
- 00:08:58and because your legs are not taking up
- 00:08:59a lot more blood circulation almost by
- 00:09:02definition you're going to get a little
- 00:09:04bit less at least blood circulating from
- 00:09:06your heart to your chest and back and
- 00:09:08remember blood flow to the muscles we
- 00:09:09just trained is generally a good thing
- 00:09:11especially if it comes in with nutrients
- 00:09:13and so that's a bit of a downside right
- 00:09:15away in addition to that there's one
- 00:09:17really Dependable thing with cardio
- 00:09:19especially more intense cardio as it
- 00:09:20scales up is that the amount of blood
- 00:09:22flow to and from the GI tract
- 00:09:24substantially declines so hard cardio
- 00:09:27after lifting means there's just not a
- 00:09:29lot of blood flow going on between the G
- 00:09:31tract and the muscles you just lifted
- 00:09:32for and so the feeding of them with
- 00:09:34nutrients and the promotion of those
- 00:09:36growth processes is going to be to some
- 00:09:38extent reduced of course anytime you
- 00:09:41activate a muscle and move it around
- 00:09:44ampk is active but especially if you do
- 00:09:46it repetitively in a lowgrade state ampk
- 00:09:50is activated by cardio reliably so if
- 00:09:52you're doing cardio after training you
- 00:09:54get more ampk activation in the local
- 00:09:56muscle it's not a system thing so if you
- 00:09:58just train bicep but you're doing cardio
- 00:10:00walking up an incline pretty fast yeah
- 00:10:02your biceps will be totally fine in that
- 00:10:04regard but your quads after a quad
- 00:10:06session if you go walking they're going
- 00:10:07to have higher mpk activity which
- 00:10:10directly suppresses mtor activity which
- 00:10:12actually starts to trigger muscle growth
- 00:10:14so you get less muscle growth triggering
- 00:10:16which is not ideal in addition to that
- 00:10:19especially with harder cardio you get
- 00:10:21local muscle fatigue generation after
- 00:10:24you've just trained your calves and you
- 00:10:26start jogging you continue to fatigue
- 00:10:28your calves and after just training them
- 00:10:31for hypertrophy the ideal situation is
- 00:10:33to not fatigue them anymore to get them
- 00:10:35to rest and recover and replete and grow
- 00:10:38but now you're fatiguing them more which
- 00:10:39is not ideal and of course we already
- 00:10:41talked about glycogen the lower your
- 00:10:43glycogen the worse it is for getting
- 00:10:45that growth process started if you
- 00:10:47continue to deplete your glycogen it's
- 00:10:49an opportunity missed for putting more
- 00:10:51glycogen back in there so further
- 00:10:52glycogen depletion for muscles you just
- 00:10:54trained at the local level is not ideal
- 00:10:56and that's what happens when you do
- 00:10:57cardio and deplete the muscles now again
- 00:10:59if you did triceps but you're doing um
- 00:11:02you know some kind of incline walking
- 00:11:04you're not depleting glycogen from your
- 00:11:06triceps these are only local things but
- 00:11:08as you'll see in a minute that means
- 00:11:09that especially after you train legs
- 00:11:12maybe hard cardio isn't the best thing
- 00:11:14you could
- 00:11:16do so to sum all of this up how do these
- 00:11:20State differences affect growth and
- 00:11:24really the nearly ideal state after
- 00:11:27training for muscle growth and almost
- 00:11:29certainly strength development as well
- 00:11:31is kind of the opposite of all of the
- 00:11:32states that cardio
- 00:11:34promotes especially if you delay your
- 00:11:37post-workout meal or your post-workout
- 00:11:39shake and then it's doubly bad because
- 00:11:42then the GI tra circulation doesn't even
- 00:11:44get going so what do I mean by that if
- 00:11:46you have to do 30 minutes of incline
- 00:11:47walking cardio and you just trained
- 00:11:49upper body you can do that cardio and
- 00:11:51sip on a protein carb Shake combo and at
- 00:11:53least you get Matt going which is good
- 00:11:56but if you're doing like hard Sprint
- 00:11:57intervals or jogging or really crazy
- 00:11:59elliptical and you do that for 45
- 00:12:01minutes after your weights work out
- 00:12:03that's an extra 45 minutes that your
- 00:12:05biceps that you just trained are like
- 00:12:07hey so like what what when are we
- 00:12:08getting like when are we getting fed and
- 00:12:11your body's like shut up and suffer like
- 00:12:13a mini um David goggin pops out in your
- 00:12:16B in your biceps and punches them in the
- 00:12:18face they're crying their glasses are
- 00:12:20broken they can't even find their
- 00:12:21glasses that's the situation you're
- 00:12:22leaving a biceps in starved for
- 00:12:24nutrients not not starved in the capital
- 00:12:26S your biceps aren't going to die
- 00:12:28they're not going to never grow again
- 00:12:29but definitely not ideal so if instead
- 00:12:32of probably sitting down or just
- 00:12:35chilling out and vibing and walking
- 00:12:36around slow and bbing and having a meal
- 00:12:39If instead of that you're doing hard
- 00:12:41cardio and not a meal you're definitely
- 00:12:44leaving some potential gains on the
- 00:12:46table RP hypertrophy app comes with
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- 00:12:50of training per week all the way up to 6
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- 00:13:12get started so from all of these
- 00:13:15scenarios what is the biggest deal
- 00:13:17that's going to cost us the most
- 00:13:19potential muscle growth and how big of a
- 00:13:21deal isn't a couple of things the higher
- 00:13:24intensity your cardio the worse so if
- 00:13:26you're gasping for air after 30 minutes
- 00:13:28of card cardio like that will not
- 00:13:31promote muscle growth as much as it
- 00:13:33could cardio that uses the muscles you
- 00:13:35just trained is especially bad so if you
- 00:13:37want to do some walking after an upper
- 00:13:38body workout it's not a big deal but if
- 00:13:40you just did an upper body workout and
- 00:13:43you're cranking the elliptical really
- 00:13:44hard with upper body that's not ideal
- 00:13:47and of course after pretty much all of
- 00:13:48leg training going Doing Hard cardio
- 00:13:50that involves your legs is definitely
- 00:13:52not ideal there's a duration component
- 00:13:55so cardio that takes longer than 30
- 00:13:57minutes to do is going cost you more
- 00:14:00potential gains than cardio that's
- 00:14:01shorter so if you have to do a 20 20
- 00:14:04minutes of incline walking after even a
- 00:14:06leg workout it just not that big of a
- 00:14:08deal but if you have to do an hour of
- 00:14:11incline walking after leg workout yeah
- 00:14:14it's going to cost you something that
- 00:14:15might be notable in your results and
- 00:14:19cardio that has a post-workout shake
- 00:14:21that you drink during it is going to be
- 00:14:23probably a little bit better for
- 00:14:24promoting growth than cardio that has
- 00:14:27just you just aren't eating instead
- 00:14:29you're doing cardio like you have this
- 00:14:31huge workout your muscles are rated grow
- 00:14:32they're like food and you're like you
- 00:14:33know what you guys get instead of food
- 00:14:35that's a lot like food and they're like
- 00:14:37what you're like cardio now and they're
- 00:14:39like ah they don't love that and muscles
- 00:14:41don't love something they don't tend to
- 00:14:43grow as much those stupid muscles now
- 00:14:45here's the
- 00:14:47thing none of this is some that in
- 00:14:51almost any circumstance is going to
- 00:14:53cause you to lose
- 00:14:55muscle none of this in almost every
- 00:14:58circumstance is some that's going
- 00:15:00to cause you to not make any gains from
- 00:15:02that workout but if you push these
- 00:15:04variables you do very hard cardio
- 00:15:06definitely don't take a workout shake
- 00:15:08with it and you do like an hour or
- 00:15:09something at the end of each workout you
- 00:15:11can mute the degree to which your muscle
- 00:15:14gains will occur by as much as 50% in
- 00:15:17some cases so if you normally would have
- 00:15:19grown like I don't know 50 gram of
- 00:15:22muscle from a single given workout then
- 00:15:25you might only be growing 25 grams of
- 00:15:27muscle why is this important because
- 00:15:32it's something you should know so that
- 00:15:34you're comfortable with the trade-offs
- 00:15:35if you're a person that loves
- 00:15:36cardiovascular fitness loves being
- 00:15:38jacked but isn't like so obsessed with
- 00:15:41being jacked they're willing to toss
- 00:15:42their cardio out the side and you have a
- 00:15:43busy Balanced Life you're career person
- 00:15:45you go to school you go see people on
- 00:15:47dates and other people show up to the
- 00:15:49date they don't let you down like always
- 00:15:51and no one ever shows up your Tinder
- 00:15:52profile actually giv people look at it
- 00:15:55what whatever normal people do normal
- 00:15:57people like you then you might be like
- 00:15:58look I love my 45 minute weight workouts
- 00:16:00and I always do 45 minutes of cardio I
- 00:16:02only train 5 days a week it's an hour
- 00:16:03and a half it really unwinds me for the
- 00:16:05evening that's what I'm going to do and
- 00:16:07I okay with making slower gains but
- 00:16:09still make gains Hey listen God bless
- 00:16:11you but if your person that's trying to
- 00:16:12optimize for hypertrophy and you didn't
- 00:16:14know that doing hard long duration
- 00:16:16cardio without eating after training
- 00:16:18especially for your legs is like you're
- 00:16:21doing all this optimizing you're
- 00:16:23lengthened partial is you're doing full
- 00:16:24range of motion you're doing these like
- 00:16:26complex set and rep schemes
- 00:16:28periodization us the RP hypertrophy app
- 00:16:30and all of a sudden you know you're like
- 00:16:32you're going out to you know with
- 00:16:34friends out to eat you're you're like
- 00:16:35thinking about your Macros a little bit
- 00:16:37kind of trying to order healthy and
- 00:16:38waking up you know like you know four or
- 00:16:40five times um you know per day you're
- 00:16:42you're eating you wake up in the morning
- 00:16:44to make sure you get your protein in and
- 00:16:45all of a sudden someone's like did you
- 00:16:47know that all that cardio you're doing
- 00:16:48after your weights takes half of your
- 00:16:50gains and just goes we're not going to
- 00:16:51be doing that right now oh man like I
- 00:16:54feel kind of weird about that you know
- 00:16:56it's kind of like dating someone for a
- 00:16:58while and you're like where good right
- 00:16:59and they're like oh this has been super
- 00:17:00casual to me the entire time I've
- 00:17:02actually been like thinking about when
- 00:17:03to tell you I'm done you're like
- 00:17:06but but the but the I got you flowers
- 00:17:08that had my own literal blood on
- 00:17:11them those never arrived did
- 00:17:15they Scott you think if she got the
- 00:17:17flowers with my blood on them she would
- 00:17:19be married to me now or I would be in
- 00:17:21jail yeah it's good they didn't arrive
- 00:17:24they do actually do marriages in prison
- 00:17:27technically right really
- 00:17:29uh a conjugal visit is that what that
- 00:17:31means conjugal
- 00:17:33marriage I wonder where those flowers
- 00:17:36are some old lady's like Jesus
- 00:17:40Christ in any case just knowing that it
- 00:17:43can really hamper your gains but it
- 00:17:45doesn't make you smaller and you still
- 00:17:47get gains is a thing you should know now
- 00:17:51if you're like dude all of
- 00:17:53that I still need to do my cardio after
- 00:17:55training but I want to do it in such a
- 00:17:57way that it doesn't cost me a ton I have
- 00:17:59recommendations at first low intensity
- 00:18:01cardio doesn't hamper your nearly as
- 00:18:03much so ease up in the jogging do
- 00:18:05incline walking instead and you're
- 00:18:06already halfway there to costing
- 00:18:08yourself fewer gains cardio that uses
- 00:18:11other muscles than the just trained ones
- 00:18:13so if you have like uh two leg sessions
- 00:18:15and two upper body sessions a week and
- 00:18:17you also have two extra cardio sessions
- 00:18:18a week put your cardio and make it
- 00:18:20incline walking or whatever you know
- 00:18:22jogging or whatever you do for cardio
- 00:18:24that's only lower body put it after
- 00:18:26those upper body workouts so that after
- 00:18:28your leg workout you're not using those
- 00:18:29just trained leg muscles because that
- 00:18:31local interference local fatigue local
- 00:18:33mpk activation local glycogen depletion
- 00:18:35that's going to be something that
- 00:18:36interferes much more so if you're using
- 00:18:38mostly leg based cardio try to do more
- 00:18:41of it or more intense or more long
- 00:18:42duration on the upper body days and vice
- 00:18:45versa cardio that doesn't last a long
- 00:18:47time is really good if it's under 30
- 00:18:49minutes I generally just tend not to
- 00:18:50worry about it in many cases if it's
- 00:18:52like 45 minutes or an hour of
- 00:18:54cardio yeah like that's going to be a
- 00:18:56thing so less duration of cardio was
- 00:18:58totally good for a lot of people you
- 00:19:00know 15 to 20 minutes of of a decent
- 00:19:03intensity cardio after exercise
- 00:19:04especially if it's upper body work and
- 00:19:05the cardio's lower body it's just
- 00:19:07nothing right home about it's almost
- 00:19:08certainly just barely going to affect
- 00:19:10you and it's totally good to go in
- 00:19:12addition to that if you can slam a
- 00:19:14post-workout shake before cardio or just
- 00:19:16sip your shakes during cardio if it's
- 00:19:18low intensity enough that's a big deal
- 00:19:20because it starts to refeed and recover
- 00:19:21your body even while you're doing the
- 00:19:23cardio situation and in many cases if
- 00:19:26you really minimize these variables and
- 00:19:28kind of follow this advice for
- 00:19:29minimization you're going to get
- 00:19:31undetectable differences in muscle
- 00:19:32growth uh versus no cardio at all and at
- 00:19:35worst just a few percentage points less
- 00:19:37growth you still get amazing gains but
- 00:19:39not quite the best gains you could have
- 00:19:40gotten but they're still amazing versus
- 00:19:42if you really Crank That post-workout
- 00:19:44cardio in kind of all the wrongest
- 00:19:45possible ways then you're going to cost
- 00:19:47yourself like something like halfway
- 00:19:49your gains in some extreme cases and
- 00:19:51that's not that great and even if it's
- 00:19:53okay just know that that's what's going
- 00:19:56on so again toer at something really
- 00:19:59really really really important the most
- 00:20:02likely outcome of flubbing really badly
- 00:20:05on this and doing a ton of really
- 00:20:07intense cardio after a lot of your
- 00:20:08weight training sessions is that you
- 00:20:10grow less muscle and gain less strength
- 00:20:13than you otherwise could that still
- 00:20:16means you're gaining and if you ever
- 00:20:18want to gain much more just pull back on
- 00:20:20your cardio and boom you're unlocking
- 00:20:22new gains that were always there for you
- 00:20:23ready for the taking net muscle and
- 00:20:26strength loss like hey after your card
- 00:20:29if you didn't do that cardio you have
- 00:20:31gained muscle but because you did it you
- 00:20:32actually lost muscle and like a week
- 00:20:35later you have less muscle because
- 00:20:36you've been doing that that's much more
- 00:20:39likely if you are doing really intense
- 00:20:42really high volume cardio like an hour
- 00:20:43and a half of really intense cardio and
- 00:20:46um really it's folks that are really
- 00:20:49hypocaloric dieting to try to get leaner
- 00:20:51or for a show and other such exotic
- 00:20:53Pursuits so you're almost certainly not
- 00:20:55going to lose muscle which is a big myth
- 00:20:57that we encounter all the time people
- 00:20:59see some kind of person like me or some
- 00:21:01other Fitness influencer say Hey listen
- 00:21:02cardio can interfere with gains and for
- 00:21:04some reason they automatically go oh my
- 00:21:06God that means if I do any cardio at all
- 00:21:08I'm going to lose all of my muscle and
- 00:21:11that might happen to you but that's only
- 00:21:12because God picked you out and hates you
- 00:21:15and just Zapped you with a Zeus
- 00:21:16invisible lightning and just hit you
- 00:21:18right in the quads and your quads melt
- 00:21:20away because you did one extra step
- 00:21:21because you parked your car one spot
- 00:21:24away further than the usual Scott when
- 00:21:26you go to various places because now
- 00:21:27you're super important
- 00:21:29ultra wealthy person do you have um a a
- 00:21:32spot for your car everywhere you go that
- 00:21:34you understand to be functionally yours
- 00:21:37yeah absolutely and others need to
- 00:21:39understand that as well yeah that's why
- 00:21:41I have like the brush guards on my car
- 00:21:42so I just push people out of the way
- 00:21:44easy I'm parking where I'm
- 00:21:46parking get out of my way old lady oh
- 00:21:50you're in a
- 00:21:53wheelchair many other jokes I could have
- 00:21:55followed out that I'm just not going to
- 00:21:57do it Scott and I trying to be good
- 00:21:59people it's our 2025 New Year's
- 00:22:01resolution cross next year Scott what
- 00:22:04was our New Year's resolution uh be good
- 00:22:06people yes yes and we're well on our way
- 00:22:09and to that end what is the best
- 00:22:12approach to timing your weights on
- 00:22:13cardio from the big picture to zoom out
- 00:22:16I'd say the third best approach you
- 00:22:18could use is to do low intensity cardio
- 00:22:21as low as you can manage whatever you
- 00:22:22need for as little as you need maybe 20
- 00:22:24or 30 minutes after your workout while
- 00:22:27drinking your protein and carbost
- 00:22:28workout Shake that's damn good even
- 00:22:31better is to do low intensity cardio for
- 00:22:3320 to 30 minutes before your workout
- 00:22:35while staying hydrated maybe have your
- 00:22:37element pack in there with some water
- 00:22:39you get your electrolytes and your
- 00:22:40hydration uh kind of replenished and
- 00:22:42then some and basically use that cardio
- 00:22:45as a little bit of way to get cardio a
- 00:22:46little bit of a warm-up then you hit the
- 00:22:48weights and then you just go into your
- 00:22:50car you pull out your your know protein
- 00:22:52in your carbs you begin to eat them you
- 00:22:54scroll on Instagram to see if the love
- 00:22:56of your life unblocked you yet she
- 00:22:58hasn't you start to cry again but tears
- 00:23:00are anabolic and I've been clear about
- 00:23:01that since day one the ideal thing to do
- 00:23:05if you still need to do cardio but you
- 00:23:06also need to do weights and you really
- 00:23:08want almost no interference effect
- 00:23:09whatsoever or none really is to split
- 00:23:11your cardio and weights into two
- 00:23:13different sessions maybe if you have a
- 00:23:15regular day job that means in the
- 00:23:16morning you wake up you go downstairs
- 00:23:18you do your treadmill work you say
- 00:23:20what's up to the girl in the hotel or
- 00:23:22the the apartment gym that you train at
- 00:23:24you're like what's up and she's like hi
- 00:23:26you're like uh
- 00:23:29good busy day today she's like it's 7 in
- 00:23:31the morning I haven't started my day and
- 00:23:33you're like right I meant like an up
- 00:23:36upcoming I'll just I'm just I'm just
- 00:23:38going to do my cardio and she already
- 00:23:39walked
- 00:23:40out that's when you do your cardio and
- 00:23:43then after work you do your weights
- 00:23:44workout or the other way around or you
- 00:23:48get out from work you do your weights
- 00:23:50workout you come home you have a meal
- 00:23:52you chill pull up her profile again
- 00:23:55nothing as a matter of fact Instagram
- 00:23:57shut your in Instagram down because
- 00:23:59basically meta is like you can't keep
- 00:24:01sending this woman messages from
- 00:24:03different accounts that you're starting
- 00:24:05you don't know what to do with yourself
- 00:24:06and then it's maybe 10 p.m. and you go
- 00:24:08for a nice little cardio walk around the
- 00:24:09neighborhood or you go back to the gym
- 00:24:11to talk to that one awkward girl from
- 00:24:12early in the morning and then you're
- 00:24:13good to go so in each case we separate
- 00:24:15weights and cardio by multiple hours
- 00:24:18probably four at least and then you're
- 00:24:20good to go and then there's no
- 00:24:21interference hardly at all if you need
- 00:24:25any more resources to help you in your
- 00:24:26fitness journey including stuff like
- 00:24:27this we have the RP hypertrophy app
- 00:24:29there's Link in the description we have
- 00:24:30the RP diet coach app there's Link in
- 00:24:32the description these apps can take all
- 00:24:34the big brain thinking and tracking and
- 00:24:36progression right out of your head and
- 00:24:38they put it right into your phone and it
- 00:24:40keeps track of everything you can
- 00:24:41customize anything you want they're
- 00:24:43awesome apps we only made them for two
- 00:24:44reasons one is to help you get in
- 00:24:47exactly the shape that you want and are
- 00:24:49capable of getting and two is that Mr
- 00:24:52Nick Shaw the CEO of RP tells me that
- 00:24:54he's absolutely never ever ever flying
- 00:24:58Pride it ever again he only wants to fly
- 00:25:00in his own space shuttle and space
- 00:25:02shuttles are not free and so he needs
- 00:25:03the money please get the apps to support
- 00:25:06Mr Nick Shaw's exorbitant spending
- 00:25:08habits and I'll see you guys next time
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