Does Cardio burn muscle?

Chong Warrior · 12 Jun 2009 at 18:17

What a big, horrible can of worms of a subject..?

I think it's a little too broad of a question to be able to give a worthwhile answer. A bit like asking is this car going to be good on fuel.... depends how you drive it, maintain it, tyres, motorway miles, is it tuned, etc, etc.

Can cardio burn muscle? Yes of course
Does cardio always burn lots of muscle? No

dun · 12 Jun 2009 at 18:38

Chong Warrior said:
What a big, horrible can of worms of a subject..?

I think it's a little too broad of a question to be able to give a worthwhile answer. A bit like asking is this car going to be good on fuel.... depends how you drive it, maintain it, tyres, motorway miles, is it tuned, etc, etc.

Can cardio burn muscle? Yes of course
Does cardio always burn lots of muscle? No

My thoughts exactly.

Freefaller · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:06

Spot on CW

etom · 13 Jun 2009 at 11:28

ran with a 16 1/2 stone 6.2 monster this weekend, he was running 5minute 20 sec miles for 3miles and still seemed to have some left in him and incredibly strong its defiantly possible and just need look at proffesional american football players, gymnasts and rugby players see why cardio isnt the killer of muscle.

Morba · 13 Jun 2009 at 11:39

etom said:
ran with a 16 1/2 stone 6.2 monster this weekend, he was running 5minute 20 sec miles for 3miles and still seemed to have some left in him and incredibly strong its defiantly possible and just need look at proffesional american football players, gymnasts and rugby players see why cardio isnt the killer of muscle.

because they eat lots, train hard and rest well.

Mr-White · 13 Jun 2009 at 11:58

jamief said:
I don't think there is anything wrong with the term "toned body" - it is just a body type (probably slim/medium build with low bodyfat).

The term "toning" however is something totally different - as if you can do certain exercises which will stop you "getting huge" and just "tone me up" for the "winz".

Toning seems to be a generic term used to mean loosing body fat and slightly increasing muscle just for definition.

If toning isn't a good term for this what is ?

MW

Morba · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:01

toning is a non existent thing though. it is very very very hard to lose fat and build muscle at the same time.
to do so you need to train and eat perfectly, anyone who tells you 'i am toning up' will not be the sort who will train and eat like a perfectionist.

toning up to most people is actually just losing fat, because the silly bicep curls they do for 500 reps will not build any muscle :]

dave22 · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:16

Burn muscle. LMFAO

Morba · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:18

dave22 said:
Burn muscle. LMFAO

what is so funny?

Vegetarian · 16 Jun 2009 at 19:24

scott212 said:
So my routine of doing cardio one day, weights the next is fine? Or do you have to do both cardio and lifting on the same session?

Cheers

Id do it in same session. Lets say you do 4 workouts per week ( the minimum if you want to see great results) 15-20 mins of low intensity cardio before 45 mins waights is great. Id do 3 days like this - Back/biceps - Chest/triceps - legs/shoulders - the 4th day Id do more intensive cardio - a gym class like cycling or circults is ideal.

If you want to lose more waight - try at end of gym work out running a mile in 7 mins - each day try to knock off 10 secs of your time.

I went from 17 stone to 11 stone doing this weekly workout.

Im upto 11 and a half stone now a few years later dew to doing waights.

Morba · 16 Jun 2009 at 20:49

Vegetarian said:
Id do it in same session. Lets say you do 4 workouts per week ( the minimum if you want to see great results) 15-20 mins of low intensity cardio before 45 mins waights is great. Id do 3 days like this - Back/biceps - Chest/triceps - legs/shoulders - the 4th day Id do more intensive cardio - a gym class like cycling or circults is ideal.

If you want to lose more waight - try at end of gym work out running a mile in 7 mins - each day try to knock off 10 secs of your time.

I went from 17 stone to 11 stone doing this weekly workout.

Im upto 11 and a half stone now a few years later dew to doing waights.

If you want to lose weight then thats great. the OP wants to get bigger, wants to grow.
so what you are proposing would not work, unless he also ate enough to cover the loss from all the cardio.