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[samIam1642]

I am currently 130 Lbs, female,5"6

and I was wondering if Cardio 2x daily is going to help me shed more weight..

I have heard positives and negatives.


I was thinking of running 30 mins Am and then 30 Mins PM

Followed of course by strenght trainnning

I have a personal dietitan

so food is 1000 % clean

Any advice ?

[Boss Man]

Cardio like this isn't necessary, except for competition I.E. Figure, Fitness etc etc.

Stick to 1 30 minute session 2-3 times a week max. 2x 30 with Strength training daily, is going to be overkill on the body for sure.

You can still do the 2-3 30 mins, as something like Interval or Sprints, but you don't need Cardio 2x every day, you should let the body rest.

This goes for weights too. depending on how you training Full body, upper / lower split, bodypart splits etc etc, you would be doing weights 3 times and no more than 5 times.

To reduce any additional fatigue to certain muscles, from Cardio post training, you could tailor your Cardio around your weights.

I.E. when you train Upper body muscles, in any way, do something like Treadmill and Exercise Bike, that require no significant upper body usage, so muscle Fibre recruitment in the upper body is minimsed, and any additional fatigue in those areas minimised.

After Legs, use an Exercise Bike. Takes most of the upper body weight off the Legs, stops the Legs pounding on a belt when they're fatigued, and might actually require less Leg movement to pedal, than to Jog, and less resistance, (from not loadbearing upper body weight).

For rest I'd say 5 days of any training type is all you need but split those rest days, don't have two back to back rest days, eating into Fat losses and stamina increases.

This is how you could do this.

If you were thinking to taking 2 days off at the weekend, then don't.

If you trained Saturday, then either Tuesday or Wednesday off.

If you trained Sunday, then either Wednesday or Thursday off, so you don't train for more than 3 days back to back.

[swanso5]

a terrible idea

at the very most 3 days of wts and cardio for 2 sessions a day is all you should do with nothing or very easy sessions of the other days

if you're trying drastic measures like this than look at your food intake

[SarahPT]

The concept of cardio twice a day is sometimes used by advanced endurance athletes and sometimes for bbers/fitness/figure competitors when they are real close to competition. It's an extreme meausre, and most likely not the best idea for you. Be patient with the clean eating and quality exercise.