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03-07-24, 03:17 PM | |
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After a serious illness, I got very weak. Now my main goal is to get stronger. I do know that when I lower my food intake and lift weights at the same time, I end up getting sick, so I don't do that anymore.You've got to eat to support muscle growth.
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03-08-24, 12:12 PM | |
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I'm probably in the minority here but I usually like to keep my strength workouts and my cardio workouts separate. Making every workout into "metabolic conditioning" (or whatever it's called) doesn't work for me. Too much cardio decreases muscle growth.
It's like people become obsessed with getting their heart rate up no matter what kind of workout they're doing. Sure - a good strength workout will get your heart rate up but it's not the same as doing real cardio for me. I read reviews where folks gripe that a certain weight workout didn't get the person into their zone. Well, it's a strength workout, not a HIIT workout. That's my .02 on that.
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03-08-24, 01:43 PM | ||
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I think trackers might have something to do with that. Whether it’s zones or intensity minutes or some other metric to do with heart rate, when you wear a tracker you are seeing your stats a lot. My heart rate does go way up during a heavy leg workout, but only for a minute or two at a time. When your rest periods are long enough, it doesn’t stay high the whole workout. |
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03-11-24, 08:25 PM | |||
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This thread, especially this post,
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This search actually led me to a 2022 piece, "Want to get stronger? Try weightlifting," and I started a related VF thread, where I intend to have my main discussion of this piece. Although it's probably not a companion piece (for example, it's from 2022), it does remind me of how a missing companion piece may look. I wanted to start a thread about it because of other things inside, like what two speakers (the host and the first guest), both women, say about their own stories and about how we think about movement, as in what I wrote in the original post of this thread: Quote:
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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03-12-24, 01:11 PM | ||
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I see what you mean about the heart rate and “tracker obsession.” In my case, I don’t expect a higher heart rate from a weight training workout. My gripe is when I don’t get into even a lower zone with a cardio workout when that is part of the point for me. I felt that way even in the days of the “pre tracker” old heart rate charts and taking a pulse part way through. I see myself looking at the tracker too much, though, and have to tell myself that it isn’t always accurate and it’s just a guide, not the law. prettyinpink, like you, the only time my heart rate goes up when weight training is in an intense leg workout and then only briefly. One instructor I use frequently has addressed the issue of heart rate/calorie burn not being the “be all and end all” of fitness training workouts. She has also stopped wearing her tracker as she felt that she was getting too caught up in the numbers.
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03-16-24, 03:15 PM | ||
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(I don't have very pronounced inherent likes or dislikes for different modes of exercise, and I'm glad never to have had any. I've never wanted What I Do to be ruled by such things, as in "I like X and do it more than recommended" or "I hate Y and don't do it at all." As it so happens, I'm reading old material from a yoga teacher who happened to oppose the idea of doing or not doing things because of how much we liked or disliked them.)
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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03-16-24, 04:19 PM | |||
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The 2022 NPR piece linked from a related recent thread does have this: Quote:
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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