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I never fail to be amazed at all the lifters out there that want truly amazing things to come from an out of shape unconditioned body. You want your body to recover from your workouts and increase its capacity to do both weight and volume increases. You want it to do absolutely amazing things?..with a level of conditioning of a slug. I know and fully understand all of the benefits of resistance training. It by itself has wonderful benefits to your body?except as done by most it doesn?t do much for your heart, lungs, and overall metabolic system (metabolic system term used for simplicity here).
And please don?t spend any time telling me about how great of shape you are in from your lifting unless you do EXTREMELY short rest period times in your training consistently and for all sets (some guys do just this and qualify, but that is a shitty way to build maximal strength/size). It doesn?t take shit to do an extremely hard set of 8-10 reps and then rest 90 seconds to 3 minutes from a CV capacity standpoint, and I have worked with and been around a LOT of lifters that looked great but couldn?t walk a flight of stairs without getting winded. I have seen many more that looked like shit and one reason is they are so horribly out of shape. I am not saying you can?t build maximal size and strength without a reasonable level of CV capacity, because we all know that is not true. Many lifters get freaky strong and huge never doing CV work. But for your average lifter, better results are had by a REASONABLE conditioning base.
So why is this important if you are a bodybuilder or powerlifter where maximal size and strength is your only concern? Because simply put, with at least a minimal conditioning base you will recover faster, have more work capacity, and be healthier. This doesn?t mean any high impact cardio, but low impact high intensity done for at least two 20 minute sessions twice a week. If you break into this it will NEVER impact your progress with the weights and WILL enhance it once at that level. For a bodybuilder or powerlifter the goal is to establish the base conditioning level and then simply maintain it. Not continue to take it to higher levels unless you want to potentially trade off some strength/size gains for conditioning which WILL occur once a certain threshold is met. You only make things more difficult for yourselves not being in at least minimal cardio shape irregardless of what certain ?experts? might say about this.
Iron Addict
And please don?t spend any time telling me about how great of shape you are in from your lifting unless you do EXTREMELY short rest period times in your training consistently and for all sets (some guys do just this and qualify, but that is a shitty way to build maximal strength/size). It doesn?t take shit to do an extremely hard set of 8-10 reps and then rest 90 seconds to 3 minutes from a CV capacity standpoint, and I have worked with and been around a LOT of lifters that looked great but couldn?t walk a flight of stairs without getting winded. I have seen many more that looked like shit and one reason is they are so horribly out of shape. I am not saying you can?t build maximal size and strength without a reasonable level of CV capacity, because we all know that is not true. Many lifters get freaky strong and huge never doing CV work. But for your average lifter, better results are had by a REASONABLE conditioning base.
So why is this important if you are a bodybuilder or powerlifter where maximal size and strength is your only concern? Because simply put, with at least a minimal conditioning base you will recover faster, have more work capacity, and be healthier. This doesn?t mean any high impact cardio, but low impact high intensity done for at least two 20 minute sessions twice a week. If you break into this it will NEVER impact your progress with the weights and WILL enhance it once at that level. For a bodybuilder or powerlifter the goal is to establish the base conditioning level and then simply maintain it. Not continue to take it to higher levels unless you want to potentially trade off some strength/size gains for conditioning which WILL occur once a certain threshold is met. You only make things more difficult for yourselves not being in at least minimal cardio shape irregardless of what certain ?experts? might say about this.
Iron Addict
