What are your thoughts on cardio in the off-season??

The short answer is ... it depends.

I will say however that when I see, or rather read, of people doing 45-60 minute cardio sessions in the OFF SEASON, I want to bang my head against the wall; even when I see 30 minutes 6-7x/week. It's the OFF SEASON. If you're doing this kind of cardio in the offseason, where do you go when you start dieting?

I don't have a problem with some low-intensity maintenance sessions per week of reasonable duration - as long as it's not interfering with what you're trying to do with your offseason. Low-intensity cardio can actually be rather stimulatory to the appetite... read more 9 comments

Does it matter if you do cardio in the am on an empty stomach? I get up at 4am and do my cardio at 6:30am so i've been eating my first meal of the day at 4am. Am i defeating the purpose of burning fat?

No, it does not have to be done fasted. Can it be if it's more convenient for you? Sure. But it's not something that must be done. That said, intervals and other high intensity modes should not be done fasted.

What matters isn't so much where the energy is coming from (ie. fat vs glycogen), but rather, how much you're burning (overall caloric expenditure). 300 calories is still 300 calories at the end... read more 4 comments

I did a two-part interview for Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training (http://turbulencetraining.com) member site recently. I’ll be running the full interview in a future issue of the LBC newsletter, but in the mean time (since I’m trying to post to this blog frequently) I thought, I’d post up one of the Q&As from the interview.

 

CB: Moving over to training, how and when do you use cardio and intervals for fat loss? What about when gaining muscle, do your clients still do cardio?

EL: For fat loss, it really depends on the person, their goals, how far away from their goals they currently are, the amount of time they have to invest, how I have their training... read more 5 comments

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