Is it possible to do copious amounts of cardio but also gain muscle lifting?
I currently cycle for fun on average about 200 miles a week but I have lifted for brief periods in the past when I was a teen and I liked the sense of confidence and how it made me feel. Also cycling gives you a pathetic looking body I would like to look somewhat aesthetic without spaghetti arms.
But I'm really not sure how to fit it in. I'm guess at the minimum I need to do at least 2 days lifting for it to be worthwhile, but full body workouts would mean I need to rest a day in between and before and after, which would take up 5 days and leave me only 2 days to cycle.
Is it possible to carry on cycling lots but also incorporate lifting into my life, or is that simply an exercise (no pun intended) in futility, and I should just stick to one or the other?
If you take drugs anything is possible But since you want to be natural... You'll have to eat a FUCKTON of calories and cut out a ton of other activities outside of biking, training for mass, eating and resting.
Jordan King
Eat a megafuck amount of calories and protein
Luis Howard
They aim to be that skinny as its optimal for performance. If you're not aiming for that its not going to happen by accident. I do mostly running with some cycling around 6 days a week and still hit the weights about 3 times a week. Most people here are amerifats with comical levels of fitness that think training more than 3 weeks with cause burnout. You can still get a athletic, good looking body while focusing on cardio.
Jason Carter
>Is it possible to do copious amounts of cardio but also gain muscle lifting? depends is it actually cardio like you're in that heart rate range or are you just cycling around? If you're not doing racing stuff you're probably not doing enough cardio to negatively impact your gains. Just eat more lift 3 days a week and take at least one day off a week from everything.
Jonathan Torres
So you lift on the same days as cardio? Doesn't that hinder recovery?
What routine do you do?
Dominic Bailey
Whilst I'm not cycling for competitions or anything, when I do cycle I go very hard and try to beat times, raise my ftp etc.
Easton White
>They aim to be that skinny as its optimal for performance. If you're not aiming for that its not going to happen by accident
The fuck? Getting that thin while going hard at biking and not keeping up with calories is a natural consequence, not something that they have to intentionally work on.
Kayden Scott
I mostly do full body stuff--dips, pullups, bench, Etc, with some vanity work thrown in at the end. If you are fit as fuck and doing cardio almost every day, weight sessions seem really easy in comparison unless you are doing some crazy high rep squats or something. Really I wouldn't worry about recovery from throwing in a couple of resistance sessions. To look good by normie standards you really only need to be lean and have the smallest of noob gains anyway.
William Morgan
"Going hard" is a bit of an understatement when you realise how these guys actually train and what they do. They are also taking drugs that lean them out like that. I've cycled with some pretty decent amateurs that clocked some huge mileages and almost none of them were that thin. Some had a bit of a belly honestly lol.