Brazen's Rebuild Log

[Brazensol]

Changing the way I do cardio. Plan now is to ride twice a day on the premise that metabolism stays ramped up several hours after cardio. Will now ride 12-15 miles in the am (fasted) and ~10 more miles in the evening. This might be easier overall as for fitting it in since instead of one long session I can break it into two shorter ones.

Started the day with a 13.1 mile ride @ 16.5 mph.

Noticed last night that I can see veins on my lats and upper back. Any guess as to what bf% that might put me at? Starting to get them on my legs too which I have never had either. I tried to get some pics but they didn't turn out so well. I will have my wife take some tonight and see if they turn out better.

Going to be very hard to fit any more weight lifting in for awhile. After seeing the doc (NP) she said I should stay out of the gym for awhile anyway and let my shoulder try to heal. Got the standard 800mgs ibuprofin. lol. If not or little improvement will then get an MRI. I now feel like I did something a little more serious than a simple strain but we will see...

[tarmyg]

Changing the way I do cardio. Plan now is to ride twice a day on the premise that metabolism stays ramped up several hours after cardio. Will now ride 12-15 miles in the am (fasted) and ~10 more miles in the evening. This might be easier overall as for fitting it in since instead of one long session I can break it into two shorter ones.

Brazensol,

Why are you doing this instead of HIIT as there are many studies that prove the afterburn effect of HIIT which would achieve the same goal unless you simply like riding the bike. Not questioning what you are doing simply wondering.

Thanks
~T

[Back In Black]

Brazensol,

Why are you doing this instead of HIIT as there are many studies that prove the afterburn effect of HIIT which would achieve the same goal unless you simply like riding the bike. Not questioning what you are doing simply wondering.

Thanks
~T

There are also studies that show cardio 2 x 30 minutes per day is more effective than one session of 60 minutes.

The EPOC effect of exercise is greatly exaggerated. I mean, if you run a marathon then yes, there will be a significant EPOC but HIIT, not so much. Not unless it is an extended HIIT session and that is extremely difficult if you are doing a true HIIT style.

Burn your calories and hit your macro's. take care of the big things and success is yours

[tarmyg]

There are also studies that show cardio 2 x 30 minutes per day is more effective than one session of 60 minutes.

The EPOC effect of exercise is greatly exaggerated. I mean, if you run a marathon then yes, there will be a significant EPOC but HIIT, not so much. Not unless it is an extended HIIT session and that is extremely difficult if you are doing a true HIIT style.

Burn your calories and hit your macro's. take care of the big things and success is yours

Only posting this because you mentioned Marathon :-)

High Intensity Interval Training - Fitbit

HIIT works much better for me but as you said, whatever works for each person is probably what they should be doing!

~T

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[tarmyg]

Double post.