You gotta do cardio. You’ll never love it, and you’ll probably never grow to like it. But you accept it. Even genetic freaks such as Dexter Jackson and David Henry, with the fastest metabolisms the sport has ever known, need to complete cardiovascular exercise leading up to a show. It’s a required part of bodybuilding life. For many, it’s long and monotonous. However, it doesn’t have to be. Let’s look at a method of stacking your cardiovascular training using multiple machines and interval training. This type of training varies greatly from minute to minute, but the end result is the same – you’ll get shredded. Ready to jump in? Treadmill Let’s start slow, but not that slow! Here is the breakdown for your treadmill cardio. Minute 1: 1.5 mph at 9 degree incline ...

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When it comes to planning cardiovascular training, most bodybuilders don’t put much thought into it. They plan their muscle group workouts with great precision and focus. They select exercises, set and repetition ranges, and even toss in a few training principles to increase intensity, such as drop sets or training beyond failure. However, their cardio training sessions usually involve jumping on the nearest open machine and completing the time required to stay trim, with little regard for muscle group crossover or spillover effect. There are ways to stimulate the muscle group that has just been trained with weights, during the following cardio session. Not only does training in this manner help to avoid overtraining a muscle group, it can also be used to compliment the anaerobic weight training session you just completed by hitting those muscle fibers ...

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Before I ever started training or doing cardio, I told myself, "the harder you work, the better the result." Makes sense, right? Well, then someone told me, "No, actually, when it comes to aerobic work, you'll want to do longer duration, less intense exercise for the greatest fat burning." It took awhile to buy that, but then I did - for years. So there I was, doing low intensity, hour long workouts on a treadmill, thinking I was burning adequate fat. Truth was, I was dieting hard enough that the fallibility of that theory didn't show itself. But the other reason the theory about low intensity cardio came into being is that studies showed it burned a greater percentage of calories from fat, not carbs. So years later, when someone else told me that high-intensity aerobic work would burn more fat than ...

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