02/01/2020
Have you ever lifted weights and felt like your heart was pumping as much or more than when performing cardio? That’s because your heart doesn’t know if you’re running, rowing, leaping, or lifting. It simply responds to the metabolic demands of cellular respiration and helping to remove metabolic waste.
Resistance training as a means of high intensity interval training (HIIT) has been reviewed in research with excellent fat loss and muscle gain results. There are incredible benefits so challenge yourself if you’ve never explored resistance training as a means of “cardio” often called metabolic conditioning (MetCon) or as I like to call it ... just another tool in the toolbox 🧰 ... but a wildly effective tool.
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Try this:
Squat to press dumbbells
45s
Rest 15s
Pushups 45s
Rest 15s
Alternating reverse DB lunges 45s
Rest 15s
Suspension training rows 45s
Rest 1 min
Repeat for 4 rounds
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Keep good form, controllable weights, and safety at the top of mind. Regress as needed as fatigue sets in.
“Do what you can, not what you can’t” so be safe. You should feel it in your muscles 💪🏼 and heart ❤️ but not your joints!
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Try this circuit and let me know how it goes!
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If you regularly do resistance exercises as cardio conditioning, let me know what you like about it and some success stories.
