The first thing to consider is the neuromuscular demand of your cardio activity. Some forms of cardio need a lot more recovery than others, and it’s essential to consider this before choosing what to do.
This topic is dominating a lot of evidence-based training practices, and it’s not a straight answer here are four key things to think about.
Recovery is more than a rest day. Exercise is the stimulus. When we recover, we adapt to repeat the stimulus more efficiently.
At the start of a new strength training program, you might have anything from 12-34 exercises across all days in a week.
You may have heard that you should progressively increase your training, and this vital information is out in the fitness space.
One bit of insider info that isn’t often shared on social media is that if you learn how to breathe and brace, you will be automatically training your “core”.
Protein has been a hot topic for the last few years, so much so that every food company under the sun now labels products as “high protein”.
When it comes to cardio causing issues with building muscle, coaches often refer to something called the interference effect as the reason, due to certain situations where cardio causes problems with the pathways involved in recovery.
Organising your week is up to you and will be based on the number of sessions you can do and how vital strength training is to you.
An uncomfortable truth might be that you have been too impatient in your journey, adding load to the bar and not focussing on ensuring you have mastered every incremental load increase that came before this top weight.
