Cardio and Strength
Pam shares her journey of balancing strength training with her love for rock climbing, expressing concerns about her endurance during hikes. Sal reassures her that incorporating cardio can enhance her health and stamina without hindering muscle gains. He suggests that practicing more hiking could be beneficial for building endurance, while her current high-intensity cycling routine is likely fine as long as she feels recovered.In this clip
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I am a CPT and have a question regarding how to optimally introduce cardiovascular training and conditioning for heart health and performance into my strength training routine. I lift weights 4 times per week and am now planning to start adding cardio. The purpose behind adding cardio now is that my friends and I have decided to do a long bicycle adventure this summer of about 1000km on road bikes, from where we live in Finland to a specific part of Norway. My question is: how do you recommend I start with the cardio to best work in my favor for this kind of pursuit? I was talking to my coach about it, and he suggested I start doing a 1-hour longer steady-state session on a bike one of the days, and 30 minutes of some kind of more intense intervals on the other day. So in total, two days of the week would be cardio-focused. Does this sound like a proper approach that you would also recommend? If not, how would you do it, and how would the interval session look?