How do you view the balance between strength training and cardio?

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Joshua Holland · Answer

Hi, Ashley. Thank you for your question. Your question is a good one. And your question is, how do you view the balance between strength training and cardio? I love this because not a lot of people know this or maybe people don't think of it the way I think of it, but I think strength training and cardio are one in the same. The reason being is what we think of as cardio. I think we have a certain idea of what we mean when we say cardio. So I think I have an idea of what you mean but cardio is short for cardiovascular, which means the working of the Heart, Right? The heart sort of, you know, utilizing the blood through the through the blood vessels and you know like all the different capillaries and veins and blood vessels throughout the body. So the movement of that blood throughout the system is cardiovascular movement and so anything that would Allow that to continue happening, could be considered cardio, but I'll offer more here in that when it comes to proper strength training, especially like like the super slow method or something that I like to do Blood Flow Restriction Training. These things really enhance the ability of the color of cardio, right? The abilities of the cardiovascular system to do, what it's supposed to do to help out the circulation. And so when you're doing true strength training, you're getting a better blood volume so you're getting a better pump of blood throughout the system. Therefore I think that's the real cardio training. Now when it comes to what we would call cardio with quotes, I love doing it. You know. I do for instance, I have here in my in my apartment I have the Rogue Echo Bike. Also kind of known as a salt bike. I have a Carol bike. I do rebounding or I have a vibration plate. I also Are getting in the infrared sauna to be cardiovascular training. So there is a difference. So one is more about the blood volume there or the the stroke volume of each heartbeat. So, when you do strength training, you can get more blood pumping through the, through the blood vessels. That's cardio to me in spring training, and then there's less blood volume because you have a high heart rate when you're doing sprinting and high end, high intensity. Devil training. Anyway, I hope that answers your question. Thank you.

John Sinclair · Answer

Good question here. How do we view the balance between strength training and cardio? While I'm not going to say the same things that coach Hollander and Coach Holland said? But what I will say, is how I view them for my own training and for my clients training and the way we break it down, is trying to create a balance between seven different types of strength training. So there are seven different classifications of strength, and then from a cardiovascular standpoint. Cardiorespiratory standpoint, I break those down into four different classifications of metabolic conditioning and so the goal is to create a balance between all of them. That is, what I found is work really well with the athletes, that I coach notwithstanding the facts that coach Hall in the coach Hollander said, is that you do get cardiovascular benefits from strength? The big thing that I'm doing now more with my own training and people that I'm coaching is having set days of separate Focus. So we have a certain Focus that we're going to try to achieve as a result of that, which is going to have an implication to the fuels that we use and how efficient I become at using those fields. And so if I have a data is dedicated to strength day, that's what we're going to focus on. And then if we have a day that's dedicated to metabolic conditioning, that's what our primary focus is going to be for me personally. My own training. I'm trying to create a balance between strength training and cardiovascular training, so I'll for every 12 days of strength training that I do, I make sure I get two days of cardiovascular training as well. So that way, I have a nice balance between high intensity outputs and sub threshold intensity output, so that I can build a nice balanced organism which is my body me as a human being, right? That's what we want to really be focusing on.

Hayley Hollander · Answer

Ashley, I love this question. How do you view the balance between strength training and cardio? Well, for me, first and foremost, it's important to note that we utilize the cardio respiratory and metabolic or Energy Systems when we are strength training. So, how you strength train, meaning, I can group together exercises in a circuit. I can perform that with rapid speed and I can perform them. Repetitively could become a cardio Ask Euler session, although my emphasis is strength training. So when it comes to creating a balance between strength training and cardio, we can do that within a session depending upon how we program that strength training session and group together exercises or we can do them separately because some athletes need different qualities. For example, American football player needs. Intint verse of high strength, high power, you know. Efforts they're going to be tackling, they're going to be sprinting but then they're only going to do it for 10 to 20 seconds at a time with breaks in between. Whereas if you compare that to a soccer player or across the world known as a football player, they need longer endurance at different Cadence's of runs and speeds, so the balance between strength. Meaning and cardio for each of, those athletes will be different. However, the percentage that I put into strength training for an American football player and a soccer player might be similar. But what I focus on within those sessions and how I program their strength training may be different in American football player, might do a lot more high percentage loads heavy lifts In their strength training with rests, but it will have a cardiovascular effect. A soccer player might do more endurance, based, or speed strength lifts with low rests, in between their sets. I hope that didn't confuse you. I hope that answered your question, but it was a really good one. Thank you.

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