#40 - Conditioning Recast: Cutting through the bullsHIIT

HY3RID Podcast

In this week’s episode we are revisiting conditioning and what it truly means back in the podcast den.

What does Conditioning mean? As a very general rule, we are considering conditioning to be the ability to produce a large quantity of work for an extended period of time or repeated bouts, but conditioning is very much specific to your sport/training goal.

However we do know that doing some kind of cardiovascular/aerobic training improves overall health markers across the board and will have you performing.

After chatting through what adaptations we are specifically looking for from aerobic training, we discuss:

Why this is important, even if you are a powerlifter

Why HIIT training is potentially one of the worst things you can do to actually build aerobic capacity

What you actually need to do to build more aerobic capacity?

NOTE. We would also like to give a massive apology. We actually misquoted the Tabata study, which actually consisted of 20s:10s x7 rounds 3x per week and 30 min steady 70% bout 1x per week.

We also mention the Kurzgesagt video on time. We highly recommend watching these videos for many facts and much interest.

We also mention a few articles on Stronger by Science including Could avoiding cardio be holding back your results and combining Cardio and Hypertrophy.

If you have any questions or anything we missed, please feel free to get in touch.

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