walking – STOPJABBAINGON

So, we hit the gym again this lunch time for a cardio session. I’m trying to keep up the steady state cardio work at the moment rather than HIIT training. In the last 3 weeks or so, I must admit, I’ve found I’m getting more muscular definition and size, especially in my shoulders and legs and although it’s still early days so I can’t be sure, I’d like to think it’s the alterations to my cardio sessions that are making a big difference.

Rather than burning muscle to complete a cardio session I’m just burning fat, which is never a bad thing.

So todays session was:

30 minutes, incline of 15% (maximum for machine) at 5kph. Calorie burn of 462.

What kind of cardio training do you do in your weekly sessions?

So, my training partner and I have decided that as good as doing HIIT sessions is we need to do something different that’s less counter productive to what we’re trying to achieve body wise.

Many people talk about constant low effort walking etc etc. So we thought we’d give it a crack. We normally burn around 600 calories in a 30 minute session of HIIT so didn’t expect to come anywhere near this during our cardio walking session.

We set the treadmill on an incline of 15% (as high as it would go) and set the pace at 5kph and cracked on.

Bloody hell fire. 8 minutes in and we’re both sweating, 20 minutes in and we up the pace to 5.5 then 6kph for the final 5 minutes. Just a little over 500 calories in 30 minutes and we where both sweating just as much as we would doing HIIT. However, I think the walking was actually a little bit harder than the usual cross trainer session. I was frankly blowing out my arse, and was loving every minute of it. Here’s to more walking sessions in the future (3 a week) and let’s see what happens.

What cardio session do you do that works for you?

Tag: walking

MONDAY 15TH JUNE 2015 – LUNCH CARDIO SESSION

Training 27th May 2015 (Lunch Session)