Thank you to everyone who sent in questions last week – we had plenty!
In fact, there were so many that I decided to record the answers – that way I could answer more and also get the answers out sooner (typing all those answers takes a lot of time!).
For LeanLifters members, I’ll send you a separate email with the MP3 download. Everyone else can listen here using the buttons on the new page from the link below.
I mention several resources in the call. Here are the links to those:
- Tom’s Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle
- My 6×6x6 Routine
- My Fat Burn Furnace routine
You can certainly check out the other resource links on the right while you listen (just right-click to open them in new windows so your audio isn’t interrupted).
If you have questions about these answers, add a comment below!
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Related posts:
- Science News For Building Lean Muscle – October 2009
- Answers To Your Lean Muscle Questions – 4-21-09
- Answers To Your Lean Muscle Questions – 2-16-09
Tags: Q&A, teleseminar
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October 10th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Thanks Darrin for answering my question on the “interference effect”. I do 10 mins of cardio (interval training style) after weight lifting. But I normally do not eat or drink between weight training and cardio. I have my carbs and protein before starting weight training and then post workout shake after cardio. My logic was that weight lifting would deplete muscle glycogen and doing cardio immediately after would burn the fat. But you recommend post workout shake between weight training and cardio. Would the cardio then burn the sugar added to the body by the shake instead of the body fat nd hence not be so effective?
October 10th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@John – if you are doing HIIT then eating between lifting and HIIT won’t make a difference so stick with your strategy. Since youa re talking about 10 min, I’m assuming you are really doing HIIT. Too many people spend 30 minutes doing what they think is “HIIT” but that’s impossible. They aren’t really doing HIIT.
But for everyone else who might be doing longer steady-state cardio, I strongly recommend some nutrition between lifting and long cardio. If your primary goal is fat loss, and you don’t care too much about muscle gain, then you could have pure protein (no sugar or carbs) before running. However, if you are mostly concerned with muscle gain, there is enough evidence that long cardio can interfere with maximizing muscle gain. To help minimize this, and maximize muscle gain response, ingest carbs and protein right after lifting and before long cardio. (And of course, if you do cardio before lifting, then you are weaker during your lifts, which also inhibits muscle gain; you could wait to do long cardio on your “off” days, that’s fine unless it’s within 48 hrs of a leg workout because then your leg muscles aren’t getting enough recovery.) For sure, this is a complicated subject, and even researchers disagree. But unless you are skinny, the answer is NOT to skip cardio. You can’t skip everything in life that interferes with something else – a smart person balances to get a fully healthy body and mind.