maddiesmum
Cathlete
Cathe/SNM:
There are questions that get asked frequently and some of us have spent a lot of time speculating on answers to them, on these forums, over the years! How about creating a FAQ forum to deal with these?
Today was a case in point. A poster asked about how to place and use workouts like Athletic Training, Afterburn and Supercuts in her week, whether rest is needed after each of these workouts because weights are used, etc, etc.
Your answer (see below) was seminal and if saved and placed in an FAQ forum, could be referred to for all time by the multiple Cathletes who ponder or post this question each week!
As time goes by, regular members of the forum could spot and suggest to you questions and threads that deal with questions that pop up often for inclusion in your FAQs forum.
Just a suggestion!
Clare
(Your fabulous and comprehensive answer follows, as promised)
"Any workout that involves weights as a supplement to aid in cardio output is generally not heavy enough to be considered a complete strength workout. Therefore it is okay to do this workout after a strength day. With that being said, if specific muscles are in a state of serious DOMS from the days prior strength workout, and even holding light weights fatigues the DOMS affected muscles, then you should rest those sore muscles completely for that one day (verses doing a cardio workout that involves light weight training of those specifically sore muscles) and let them recover.
If you are however, not sore at all or just very mildly sore, using light weights will not interfere with your recovery and in fact could even help to loosen up the light tightness in the muscles.
Realize also, that you can do light weight cardio based workouts on consecutive days (if you prefer to) but cannot expect to count these as weight conditioning workouts to develop high quality lean muscle mass. Your need to use your complete strength based workouts for that purpose.
Enjoy your new workouts Stacey. They are actually much more non-weight cardio-based than Afterburn and Athletic Training were."
There are questions that get asked frequently and some of us have spent a lot of time speculating on answers to them, on these forums, over the years! How about creating a FAQ forum to deal with these?
Today was a case in point. A poster asked about how to place and use workouts like Athletic Training, Afterburn and Supercuts in her week, whether rest is needed after each of these workouts because weights are used, etc, etc.
Your answer (see below) was seminal and if saved and placed in an FAQ forum, could be referred to for all time by the multiple Cathletes who ponder or post this question each week!
As time goes by, regular members of the forum could spot and suggest to you questions and threads that deal with questions that pop up often for inclusion in your FAQs forum.
Just a suggestion!
Clare
(Your fabulous and comprehensive answer follows, as promised)
"Any workout that involves weights as a supplement to aid in cardio output is generally not heavy enough to be considered a complete strength workout. Therefore it is okay to do this workout after a strength day. With that being said, if specific muscles are in a state of serious DOMS from the days prior strength workout, and even holding light weights fatigues the DOMS affected muscles, then you should rest those sore muscles completely for that one day (verses doing a cardio workout that involves light weight training of those specifically sore muscles) and let them recover.
If you are however, not sore at all or just very mildly sore, using light weights will not interfere with your recovery and in fact could even help to loosen up the light tightness in the muscles.
Realize also, that you can do light weight cardio based workouts on consecutive days (if you prefer to) but cannot expect to count these as weight conditioning workouts to develop high quality lean muscle mass. Your need to use your complete strength based workouts for that purpose.
Enjoy your new workouts Stacey. They are actually much more non-weight cardio-based than Afterburn and Athletic Training were."
