3-3.5 mph incline from 3-10 increase as I stall.The reason I do this is recovery for me is easy especially in a deficit.I find if I do any hiit . 1) My appetite increases 2)Recovering is not as easy 3) It hinders my performance in the gym.
3 hours of walking per day. 3 sessions. 2 hours first thing in the morning. 30 minutes mid-morning. 30 minutes in the afternoon. Works out to around 20k steps.
I'm fat and cutting. Once the bulk starts I'll walk less. sw 345 cw 215 bulk starts at 190. 25 lbs to go.This is a bodybuilding board or a board where people try to make guinness records of daily steps?
Some people have gone crazy at the thought of walking, I can see the sacrifice if you have to get ripped for a show, but for health purposes it is totally unnecessary. If you do serious weight training for 3-5 days a week, 40-50 minutes of walking for 4-5 days a week is enought.
There’s nothing wrong with what you’re doing. Keep it up if it’s working for you. I rarely do cardio but that’s all preference.I'm fat and cutting. Once the bulk starts I'll walk less. sw 345 cw 215 bulk starts at 190. 25 lbs to go.
I agree @eazy_ , I walk a lot also, I enjoy taking walks with my wife or walking the dog plus I do a lot of walking at my job, a lazy day at work for me is 14000 steps. I'm a PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER, but I enjoy walking so I do it. As the above quote says "there's nothing wrong with what your doing".There’s nothing wrong with what you’re doing. Keep it up if it’s working for you. I rarely do cardio but that’s all preference.
I agree @eazy_ , I walk a lot also, I enjoy taking walks with my wife or walking the dog plus I do a lot of walking at my job, a lazy day at work for me is 14000 steps. I'm a PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER, but I enjoy walking so I do it. As the above quote says "there's nothing wrong with what your doing".
This....I prefer heavy bag work because I find it cathartic. 4 minute rounds with 30 sec between rounds, 6 rounds.
In the spring and fall, ill take bike rides for 30 min. Theres a lot of hills around so never on leg day...lol
Oh I don't do bag and bike in the same day, its one or the other for me.Four minutes of good heavy bag work is very intense. I usually do 3 minute rounds. Also 30 second rest.
Bike ride and heavy bag can be one hell of a full body cardio workout.
2 things,I'm doing 2 sessions of cardio walking for 45-60 minutes, I feel a daily pain in my legs and I'm crawling, it sucks, how can you walk so much and not have muscle overload?
By the way, in the long term all excess work will bring negative consequences, walking so much is not healthy even if it is a fad, especially with your body weight.
In addition, we can think about the efficiency and investment of time and effort, just as you do not need to lift every day for 2 hours to become stronger and more muscular, your heart does not need 3 or 4 hours of walking a day.
2 things,
Im curious about the leg pain from walking. What else are you doing that contributes to it?
I believe that bodybuilders worry too much about losing muscle with cardio when endurance feats are quite possibly the main driver for our species dominance on this planet other than our brains.
Id argue this was happening in a caloric surplus. Without modern firearms and vehicles id think they were most likely always on the brink of starvation until the advent of agriculture. Each large kill sustaining life for another few weeks, especially during times when plant food wasn't available.Nothing, except leg day, 45 minute workout every 6 days.
OK, humans evolved to hunt and walk, but they weren't thinking of reducing % body fat, so when they hunted, they ate all of the surplus.
We are doing cardio but without obtaining the reward of caloric abundance.
And of course, many humans of the past died in these conditions of caloric/energy deficiency and exhaustion, as happens with all animals that hunt.
But, im wondering if your leg pain has a different underlying cause besides a calorie deficit.