Ive been putting way less emphasis on strength these past 10 months or so since I am an old man now and spending 30-45 minutes after strength work doing military style conditioning routines and I gotta say its highly enjoyable. You are working hard during and you feel it, but there's just not the long lasting fatigue of constantly pulling and pushing heavy for a 2 hour workout even with those 5 minute rest periods between deadlifts. I'm more springy, feel decent, not worrying about eating in a surplus all the time to keep gaining strength.

Mentally it just feels better, not worrying if you're going to push or pull an extra 10 pounds at the end of 16 weeks.

I do zero cardio just park my car far AF from places and walk

The best cardio is whatever you like doing consistently.

Running burns more calories, walking burn less muscle most likely, so whatever fits your goal and priority regarding time.

Not trying to lose calories or muscles… just want better cardio and heart health

Walking it is! Thanks all

Brisk walk 1h30-2h00 outside every day (or 1 time every 2 days) after work if you can, but at least 45min a day, before dinner between 6PM - 8PM.

If you can find a large stadium with a grassy surface, it's even better, that's what I do and it's softer and nicer for the feet.

You can take headphones to listen to music during this time, time will pass faster and you can walk longer.

Most important: do what you love.

This post was edited by Neili on Jul 4 2024 04:49am

id do some HIT training then if thats the case, 1min run, 1min walk, rince repeat anywhere from 5-10 times.

Crushed 60 minutes of burpees after front squat strength session (10 min 2 pump , 10 min 3 pump, 10 min 4 pump, etc.). Yesterday did 45 minutes of kettlebell after strength bench session.

I am telling you this is the way.

Nightmare fuel 🤢

During its just a battle with your brain. You can always do more body weight movements or more kettlebell movements if the time limit is 60 minutes. Its just conquering your brain that's nagging at you to stop and telling you that's oh thats good enough for today. But you feel decent after.

All those years of pretty unilateral movements only, squat, bench, dead, ohp has what I thought taken its toll on my body. Turns out I just needed to move a lot more in different planes of motion and get the heart and lungs racing.

I feel way better now. I always looked the part, but I never felt actually athletic just doing heavy lifting all the time.

running made a massive impact on my physique and cardio.

can't stress it enough.

if you're running properly it should be fairly low impact anyways.