let's talk..cardio

Sanius

So I love cardio, love it love it it makes me feel better then people who don't run and are fat. Lets just talk cardio, get that heart racing. Not weight lifting or anything like that, but the act of using your two legs in a continuous motion for a fucking long ass time. I'm not sure if there are many active runners in SE but i'd love to find out and discuss running and techniques thereof.

I love to run, I have been for the past six months. I've love 40 pounds in six months from it for gods sake I don't feel fat and slow, how can I not enjoy it. I went from not being able to run more then twice a week and less than half a mile to five times a week at 3 miles a day. No music, no nothing. Just a big ass track, running clothes and a 32 oz bottle of water. Not only do I enjoy it because I get fit, but when I get back from work or school, and I'm fucking pissed at someone, running is my way of relieving stress.

So what do you do? Power-walk, HIIT? Jog, Run? how long, how far, ect.

potatoe

i am a lazy fatty

candanavian

I ran about a mile a day during the summer.

I'm trying to get in about four or five miles a week during this semester.

Tomorrow my brother and I are going to a spinning class. Hot chicks all up ins.

lostwords

My snazzy gym spoiled me, because they have a tv for every treadmill. So now I try to run outside and get bored too fast with just listening to music. I try to do about 4-5 miles a day on weekdays, and rest on the weekends. Not really losing too much weight, it just feels good to do in the mornings. Worth getting up at 4:30 am errday for.

eryu90

I used to jog for about 3 miles everyday. I really should get back into it again.

M.D.

I run about 3-4miles every other day(unless I feel like being lazy). I had a routine for working out at the gym, but I had so much work the last 2 months haven't been keeping with it. But i'm starting up my gym work out starting next week. Besides all of that I do pull ups every day as well as sit ups.

Running in the morning is pretty awesome. You feel crappy before hand but during the rest of the day you feel pretty good.

Linksville

I don't run anymore, I now cycle for about 4-5 miles a day. I follow up with weight training. School and winter are coming soon so the amount of cycling that I do is going to go down quite a bit. However, two of the classes I will be taking this semester happen to be weight training. I wont be getting as much cycling in once I start school and the weather gets shittier, but the added weight training will more than make up for that.

Fiz

There's an exercise bike in this room. I like to start riding it when a show like Futurama comes on so I can focus on that while still getting some exercise. There's also a parking lot on campus which is 10 flights of stairs below the main campus. All the people who park there are either in fantastic shape or late for class and desperately trying to find any parking spot.

The latter are always taking breaks halfway up. There's a little outcropping area for them to do so.

GrinninBarrett

Walking 20-25 minutes from my dorm to my class 2-4 times a day gives me an excuse to reward myself with a tall, frosty IBC root beer every day

Also, why is my campus so large that it takes nearly half an hour to walk from one place to another, and merits a train to get around on campus?

NotASenator

Boots and utes.

Filler Inc.

You know whats better then cardio?

Weightlifting.

Fuck you runners.

NotASenator

Wait a minute, I run but I've put on 25 lbs. Does this mean I'm fat and lazy?

Meissnerd

Running is so boring, even with an mp3 player. I can't take it.

I want to work on my gut, but I can't think of anything else to do besides sit ups or jogging.

Is there anything else or am I boned.

Sanius

Meissnerd wrote: »

Running is so boring, even with an mp3 player. I can't take it.

I want to work on my gut, but I can't think of anything else to do besides sit ups or jogging.

Is there anything else or am I boned.

think about how you won't be a lard ass if you run

Dead Legend

Meissnerd wrote: »

Running is so boring, even with an mp3 player. I can't take it.

I want to work on my gut, but I can't think of anything else to do besides sit ups or jogging.

Is there anything else or am I boned.

diet

bicycle crunches
6 inches
bridges
etc

christ there is a plethora of ab exercises but mostly you're going to get rid of the gut through diet

Euphoria

I rode 100 miles in 5:02

enjoy your crappy knees 5 years from now

NotASenator

I don't have to.

My knees are crappy now.

Eastern Glow

I love cardio! I usually run 4-5 miles, 3-4 times a week or bike 8-12 miles.

Back in my cross country days I ran 4:40 miles but now I'm happy when I break 6 minutes.

Tube

I didn't do legs all week so tomorrow I have to do squats and deadlifts on the same day

plus shoulders

Filler Inc.

You do legs and back in the same day?

Eastern Glow

I hate squatting.

Except squatting on the toilet.

Which I try to do at least 4-5 reps a day.

Tube

Filler Inc. wrote: »

You do legs and back in the same day?

nope. I do legs throughout the week

Monday chest and deadlifts

Wednesday back and calf raises

Friday Shoulders and squats, and whatever isolation work if I've been a good boy

Tube

deadlifts are a leg exercise dammit

IHasABucket

Filler Inc. wrote: »

You do legs and back in the same day?

I don't see that being a problem as long as you isolate the muscles...

Soulburner

I enjoy running when I go for long runs and 45 mins at the fastest pace I can handle, but HIIT I do not enjoy, although I do it twice a week. I just keep it to twenty mins, sprint a lap, run a lap, repeat, and fuck is it torture. The track was really busy the other day so I ended up just timing it in my head running around the block and I went a little too fast and ended up on my knees puking on some dudes lawn. He was taking his kids to school. I felt bad, but so much better at the same time.

I just started the velocity diet so no running this month, just weight lifting and elliptical. Hopefully I won't die.

Euphoria

squats are really tiring I'm not fond of anything strenuous

instead I will parade around in lycra like a fairy and dance with my legs in perfect circles

Soulburner

Squatting is actually my favorite exercise because it's my strongest and I improve at it the fastest, but I never look forward to deadlifts, although they are my second strongest.

Soulburner

Benching and military press is where I really fall flat. I can barely move any weight at all at either of those exercises. I enjoy doing them, but I get really impatient about how much longer it takes for me to improve at them than everything else.

Weaver

I did my whole run at 8mph today.

Refreshing

the wook

due to the lack of strength in my ginglymi, i don't do much high intensity cardio. i have, however, been walking 4 miles a day for the last few weeks. 2 miles before work, 2 miles after.

Soulburner

The other day I figured I'd do swimming for cardio, thinking the endurance I've managed to gain from running would port over to swimming.

I was wrong.

I want to go swimming at least once a week now so I can see some improvement there, it just can't be between lifting days because motherfuck, that shit works your muscles.

Defender

Sanius wrote: »

So I love cardio, love it love it it makes me feel better then people who don't run and are fat. Lets just talk cardio, get that heart racing. Not weight lifting or anything like that, but the act of using your two legs in a continuous motion for a fucking long ass time. I'm not sure if there are many active runners in SE but i'd love to find out and discuss running and techniques thereof.

I love to run, I have been for the past six months. I've love 40 pounds in six months from it for gods sake I don't feel fat and slow, how can I not enjoy it. I went from not being able to run more then twice a week and less than half a mile to five times a week at 3 miles a day. No music, no nothing. Just a big ass track, running clothes and a 32 oz bottle of water. Not only do I enjoy it because I get fit, but when I get back from work or school, and I'm fucking pissed at someone, running is my way of relieving stress.

So what do you do? Power-walk, HIIT? Jog, Run? how long, how far, ect.

I don't run. Bad for the knees. And as we all know, you can't be a good fighter if you have bad knees. Cardio's super-important, but I just don't think running is a good long-term solution. Cycling and swimming seem much better. My own personal cardio choice, as many here can figure out, is martial arts training. Also, kettlebell workouts can provide an enormous amount of cardio work if you just change what muscle groups you're using and don't stop between sets. It also helps that I have a certified kettlebell dude as a personal trainer, so, like, it's getting done right and I don't injure myself.

Euphoria

Soulburner wrote: »

Benching and military press is where I really fall flat. I can barely move any weight at all at either of those exercises. I enjoy doing them, but I get really impatient about how much longer it takes for me to improve at them than everything else.

oh my god I am a machine on the bench press

get this, babies

115x4

IHasABucket

Uh, what do you mean, 115 x 4? 4 reps at 115 lbs, 4 sets at 115 lbs?

Filler Inc.

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Filler Inc. wrote: »

You do legs and back in the same day?

nope. I do legs throughout the week

Monday chest and deadlifts

Wednesday back and calf raises

Friday Shoulders and squats, and whatever isolation work if I've been a good boy

My friends and me do Legs one day, then back and shoulders the next, we do deadlifts as back.

Eastern Glow

I can't see squat being good for your knees or your back in the long run.

Euphoria

that was my last set

halfway through the fifth repetition it fell right back down to my chest

I had to yell out, "dude, duuude, duuuuuuude" before I got help

IHasABucket

Is that supposed to be impressive or a joke?

I really can't tell

OmegaTofuNinja

I used to run about a mile and a half every time I got home from work if I was closing. Stopped for about a month but I'm trying to get back into it. Usually beforehand I do some pushups and ab stuff, usually throw in some stuff with dumbells too.

Euphoria

I have the arm definition of a 12-year-old girl

I can leg press a mean 600 lbs. though

IHasABucket

If you want to make your arms look good, do lots of curls, hammerheads, and dips.

Bench press doesn't work your arms nearly as much as those exercises will.

EDIT: Make sure you get your shoulders, back, and chest too though or else your big arms will look all dumb.