Nov 4 • General discussion
Cardio kills gains?
A common misconception is that cardio kills gains but is that really true. Hi all today I’ll cover the topic of if cardio kills gains or actually helps with it. Firstly it’s important to understand that cardio will not kill your gains if programmed correctly. Although cardio does active AMPK through something that’s called Molecular signaling to promote something called endurance adaptions now what is adaptions it’s kinda already mentioned in the word adapt meaning getting used to something or better at it. Now back to what I was this saying this signaling does NOT Override the MTOR pathway from resistance training therefore muscle growth is fortunately unaffected but it may actually help with muscle gains as cardio as the ability to improve your cardio respiratory fitness and interesting enough making you more fit can actually reduce perception of effort when hypertrophy training thus increasing the level of motor unit recruitment (MUR) vs being more unfit which in simple words is helps with gainz. So you should do your cardio if you want to be optimal. Now something id like to add is doing cardio session immediately before any sort of resistance training can create a level of fatigue that will actually impair motor unit recruitment (MUR) in the training consequently reducing the GROWTH STIMULI so my recommendation is to do it either well before training or immediately after your workout or on rest days. Though me personally I do thinking doing your cardio right after your workout is great since this won’t affect your workout the day. On the next post I will be talking about the different types of cardio and which ones are most damaging due to the impact phases they have. Hope to hear your thoughts Ash! Thank you reading this 🫶
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