Caroline Knorr
It's true. I've been wanting to try this experiment for a long time now. Last week, I had a head cold and didn't feel like doing cardio, but somehow I managed to lift every day with a split routine alternating lower body and upper body workouts. This week, I just did Power Hour on Monday, rested on Tuesday, and MIS on Wednesday. (They both felt really hard, by the way.)
Today, I'm resting again. I have to tell you guys, ALL of my pants are LOOSE! I really don't think I'm eating any less. Yesterday, I felt the burn all day after MIS.
These are wacky, almost unintuitive results, but for anyone thinking they want to reduce cardio and up the weights, I really encourage you to give it a try. I never thought I'd part with my beloved cardio workouts but I got to the point where I wasn't getting results anymore. The weight work has really shocked my system. I am seriously considering going to two cardios/three weight days (full body) per week.
Another completely unscientific finding, for my body at least: I feel reducing the cardio workouts has sort of de-conditioned me and so I work HARDER when I am doing a cardiovascular workout. For example, I used to run 5 miles almost every day with no trouble and I used to think I-Max was just a regular cardio workout. Now, both of those would be very challenging, but because I would need to work harder to accomplish them, they are more effective. Hope that makes sense!
Hope everyone's having a great day!
-Caroline
It's true. I've been wanting to try this experiment for a long time now. Last week, I had a head cold and didn't feel like doing cardio, but somehow I managed to lift every day with a split routine alternating lower body and upper body workouts. This week, I just did Power Hour on Monday, rested on Tuesday, and MIS on Wednesday. (They both felt really hard, by the way.)
Today, I'm resting again. I have to tell you guys, ALL of my pants are LOOSE! I really don't think I'm eating any less. Yesterday, I felt the burn all day after MIS.
These are wacky, almost unintuitive results, but for anyone thinking they want to reduce cardio and up the weights, I really encourage you to give it a try. I never thought I'd part with my beloved cardio workouts but I got to the point where I wasn't getting results anymore. The weight work has really shocked my system. I am seriously considering going to two cardios/three weight days (full body) per week.
Another completely unscientific finding, for my body at least: I feel reducing the cardio workouts has sort of de-conditioned me and so I work HARDER when I am doing a cardiovascular workout. For example, I used to run 5 miles almost every day with no trouble and I used to think I-Max was just a regular cardio workout. Now, both of those would be very challenging, but because I would need to work harder to accomplish them, they are more effective. Hope that makes sense!
Hope everyone's having a great day!
-Caroline