Cardio 101

<p>The basics of the body's energy systems and the role that cardio training plays for everyday health, plus how and when to include it into your gym training.</p><p>We start with an explanation of what we are really training when we train cardio and this means a basic understanding of the energy systems of the body.</p><p>Byron covers the creatine phosphate energy system, lactate energy system (glycolytic) and the aerobic energy system.</p><p>We issue a cautionary for excessive cardio when it comes to very long distance bouts of it and how this may go against muscle building and repair processes.</p><p>We further detail effective ways to lose fat in a healthy lifestyle and help you understand the balance that cardio and strength training would ideally have.</p><p><br>We go onto discuss how many detrained people may not initially need cardio more than strength training. <br>We discuss when to include it and how to grade it in to be as efficient as possible in a training programme for a busy person. </p><p>We explain when cardio might be needed right away when beginning exercise in weight loss cases. </p><p>We cover our preferred approaches to doing cardio that include when to use moderate steady state and when to use interval type training.</p><p>Mike also talks in detail about using cardio training for athletes who need to enhance performance with it.</p><p>In summary, most people have done or continue to do excessive cardio in their weekly activity and although having a level of aerobic fitness is warranted they may be missing out on the benefits that only resistance training can bring. </p><p>Cardio does definitely have its place in any long term programme, but generally in our experience most people would benefit from building and maintaining basic strength levels as a primary, with cardio as adjunct training.</p><p>The exception being athletes whom we will most likely cover more on in later podcasts.</p><p>Contact us through the gym with your questions.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://www.profoundf